i tried installing xine and i did the following:
tar -zxvf /root/download/xine.xx.xx.xx.tar.gz
cd /root/xine
./configure
all went fine till the end where is displaued

"checking whether build environment is sane... configure: error: newly created file is older than distributed files!"
Check your system clock
[root@localhost xine-lib-1-beta12]#

whats this mean exactly?
what do i have to do to install xine?

thanx

Hi..

Your machine date is not correct. Your machine date is older than the xine buid date.

Check the machine date and time

Siddiqu.T

If you find trouble doing so, try synchronizing your machine to a clock server (if you use RH 8-9 you should have no problems syncing your clock with the RH clock server for your timezone)

make uses the time the file was created or modified
for knowing whether or not the build the file. so that
way if you have a big project and just make a little
modification, then make again, only what you've changed
will be rebuilt.
make in your case is complaining that the files you just
extracted have a later date and time than what the
machine has. so it knows one is wrong, and you'll have
trouble building. if you want to change the dates on the
files, i think you can enter the directory with them
and
find . -type f -exec touch {} \;
that would set all the files to the current time.

i know it's very dumb to suggest using smth. else when a problem arises, but, still, you should rather use MPlayer. i hate to admit it, but it's the onlyst usable MM player for linux, and, in addition to that, it's the best in the world, no matter on which platform you compile it, eaven windoze

I'd have to desagree with that, v21k... I've tried MPlayer and the way it navigates the DVD's I simply do not like it, does not let me pick from the menu (as xine does just as you load the DVD) and presents me directly to the movie, besides it renders awefuly BAD the subtitiles, ever tried to see AKIRA in japanese with English subtitles, but getting half the screen scrwed, becasue Mplayer WANTS to render them as it pleases, no matter what fricking setting you put in?? Well it has happened to me a lot... so I stick to xine Still I use Mplayer for VCD, in which regard is best than xine, and because of the encoder it includes, but besides that, I use Xine. Hell it even opens WMP 9 files!

im open for suggestions since i havnt use an mpeg player on linux b4...
i downloaded and installed "High Performance MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5" which was pretty pooor i have to admin, for some strange reason it plays the mpeg file but is played in an fast foward.

i just like having lots of stuff.
mplayer
xine
ogle
videolan

ok i compiled and installed xine but i downloaded "xine-ui-0.9.2" the graphical use interface "GUI" and tried installin it
i did the followin in console
cd /root/xine-ui-0.9.21/
./configure

then it came up with this!

** Could not run XINE test program, checking why...
*** The test program compiled, but did not run. This usually means
*** that the run-time linker is not finding XINE or finding the wrong
*** version of XINE. If it is not finding XINE, you'll need to set your
*** LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable, or edit /etc/ld.so.conf to point
*** to the installed location Also, make sure you have run ldconfig if that
*** is required on your system
***
*** If you have an old version installed, it is best to remove it, although
*** you may also be able to get things to work by modifying LD_LIBRARY_PATH
***
configure: error: *** You should install xine-lib first ***
[root@localhost xine-ui-0.9.21]#

(i have already installed xine-lib) im using red hat 8

ohh yeh my question is what do i do 2 fix this?

did you run ldconfig after compiling and installing xine?

what do i type in console to run ldconfig?
thanx

ldconfig

yeh what do i type exactly ?
./ldconfig -??what /??/??

many make install's will run ldconfig on their own.
many don't. if you install libraries, ldconfig needs to
be run to make the libraries available to the system,
so it will know they exist. ldconfig is run by typing
ldconfig
no options are necessary


from the ldconfig man page



ldconfig creates the necessary links and cache (for use by
the run-time linker, ld.so) to the most recent shared
libraries found in the directories specified on the com_
mand line, in the file /etc/ld.so.conf, and in the trusted
directories (/usr/lib and /lib). ldconfig checks the
header and file names of the libraries it encounters when
determining which versions should have their links
updated. ldconfig ignores symbolic links when scanning
for libraries.
ldconfig should normally be run by the super-user as it
may require write permission on some root owned directo_
ries and files. It is normally run automatically at
bootup, from /etc/rc, or manually whenever new DLL's are
installed.