Re: [xine-user] Xine Skips Horribly

[Dave D. <do...@do...>]

On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 05:17:26PM -0800, Jacob Jennings wrote:
> When I run xine -X xv the splash screen appears but
> xine exits with no message whatsoever before playing anything.

I built xine-lib-1.1.1 over the weekend and this sounds similar to the
problem I had:

The xine-lib configuration was disabling Xv support entirely.  This
resulted in it defaulting to OpenGL for output.  On my system OpenGL
is extremely unstable at the moment, leading to blank windows and a
server crash before I figured out what was going on.

At first it appeared to be due to libXvMCW not being present, so I
installed that (BTW libXvMCW does not honor "--prefix", so don't even
get me started on what a pain in the ass that was).  This still didn't
solve the problem, though.

I had to explicitly tell xine-lib's configure script to look in
/usr/X11R6/lib for libXv and possibly libXvMC.  That seemed to do the
trick and now it's working.

Some configure options may be sufficient (you might not need
libXvMCW).  Unfortunately I don't have all of my notes handy so I
don't recall exactly what options I gave it in the end.

                                                  -Dave Dodge