Re: [xine-user] Xine 0.9.23 is not running (used to work good!)

[Michael R. <mr...@us...>]

Hi Chris,

> A few days ago xine still played nicely (all mov's, wmv's, mpg's, and
> other movies, plus DVD's and everything I can think of played
> nicely). The first thing I noticed was that a large mpeg movie from
> the RTCW GOTY install CD's failed to play, and since then many movies
> have failed to play. Xine gives no errors, it just sits doing what
> appears to be nothing although it takes 60% system CPU. The movie I
> tried to play when it first failed to play had played flawlessly
> prior to this!
>
> I had installed some audio software (Audacity), and the latest
> version of Celestia, plus a couple of Kwin decorations, and a DVD to
> DiVX tool, but nothing else recently...
>
> Last nite I completely reinstalled Mandrake 9.1, but did not
> reinstall the few bits of new software to try and recreate the system
> as it was when every movie worked, but that didn't fix the problem...
>
> I'm a bit of a n00b so what can I do firstly to determine what is
> causing xine to fail playing these files?

I don't have a clue about what could have happened, but running 
xine-check might give us some idea.

Michael

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printk("autofs: Out of inode numbers -- what the heck did you do??\n");
	2.0.38 /usr/src/linux/fs/autofs/root.c