Re: [xine-devel] real codecs 64 bit in xine

[Mohamad Al-S. <ms...@ia...>]

Thank you for the reply;
I realized that this is a message from ffmpeg decoder. So, I went ahead and=
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made real decoder with higher priority. It is still not playing that file,=
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but the error message now is different. Since It is know not to work then I=
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would not post detailed verbose, unless you guys need it. The error is:

[babylon: ~] xine songs/husainridha/moda3ab.r
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xiTK received SIGSEGV signal, RIP.
Aborted

Thanks again for the clarifications

On Friday 16 March 2007 6:11:30 Diego 'Flameeyes' Petten=C3=B2 wrote:
> On Sunday 11 March 2007, Mohamad Al-Saqer wrote:
> > When I try to open a real video I get this message:
> > [cook @ 0x351d6f50d0]Necessary extradata missing!
>
> This comes from FFmpeg, that is being tried to decode the Real Audio data.
> I don't think currently xine supports playing Real Audio or Real Video
> through FFmpeg, even if FFmpeg has limited capabilities to do so, for what
> I know.
>
> > I thought I read previously in this list that a patch for real
> > media play was committed and fixed or did I misread it?
>
> As far as I know, you have misread, there was a SuSE patch to start adding
> support for Real codecs on x86-64, but it was only on codecs naming, and
> wasn't enough to get it to work, as it's not 64-bit safe.
>
> I'm currently working on this though (even if I don't like working on the
> proprietary codecs support), as I was cleaning up FreeBSD support in ther=
e.