Re: [xine-user] crashes galore

[Bartlomiej M. <fo...@kl...>]

On Saturday 11 May 2002 07:14, jd...@cm... wrote:
> Hi,
> I installed xine for the first time today, in order to play a movie.  I
> compiled the most recent release (0.9.9) from the website, along with t=
he
> ui.
> So far, xine has crashed about 5 times, it has crashed my X server 1 ti=
me,
> and has crashed my computer about 7 times.  Now if we were
> talking windows here, that might be acceptable... but this is linux - t=
his
> is not supposed to happen.

Well, true, so I think It is not xine problem if it crash whole PC. But..=
=2E who=20
knows...

> I uninstalled the xine build and tried out some 0.9.8 red hat rpm's tha=
t
> my friend has working fine on his laptop.  This version crashes my
> computer also.
> One of the avi files I have crashes it about 10 seconds into the movie,
> and the other one I have crashes at random points, usually after severa=
l
> minutes.
> Among the messages that xine prints out, I saw a "video_overlay: error:
> object->overlay was not freed!", but I have also seen that at times whe=
n
> it didn't crash.

Fine, Please provide full log from console - than maybe somebody can help=
 You.

> Does anyone have any advice on this?  What is the *most stable* version=
 of
> xine?  If I have to go back a few versions to get some decent stability=
,
> I'm willing to do that.

My advice is to build xine from scratch, previously uninstalling old rpms=
=2E If=20
You are familiar with building programs under linux of course.

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