Xine crashes

[Lonni J Friedman]

On 12/19/06, Paul Smith <phhs80 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/19/06, Lonni J Friedman <netllama at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Where did you get this version of xine?
> >
> > On 12/19/06, Paul Smith <phhs80 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Dear All
> > >
> > > I am trying to play an avi file with xine, but it crashes with the
> > > following message:
> > >
> > > This is xine (X11 gui) - a free video player v0.99.4.
> > > (c) 2000-2004 The xine Team.
> > > *** glibc detected *** xine: free(): invalid pointer: 0x0a9ae3c0 ***
> > > ======= Backtrace: =========
> > > /lib/libc.so.6[0x224efd]
> > > /lib/libc.so.6(cfree+0x90)[0x228550]
> > > /usr/lib/libpostproc.so.51[0xbd21c7]
> > > [0x0]
> > >
> > > Any ideas?
>
> From:
>
> $ rpm -qi xine
> Name        : xine                         Relocations: (not relocatable)
> Version     : 0.99.4                            Vendor: (none)
> Release     : 10.lvn6                       Build Date: Tue 07 Nov
> 2006 06:28:26 PM WET
> Install Date: Tue 19 Dec 2006 03:41:47 AM WET      Build Host:
> plague-builder.livna.org
> Group       : Applications/Multimedia       Source RPM:
> xine-0.99.4-10.lvn6.src.rpm
> Size        : 2971144                          License: GPL
> Signature   : DSA/SHA1, Tue 07 Nov 2006 06:40:46 PM WET, Key ID 71295441a109b1ec
> URL         : http://xinehq.de/
> Summary     : Free multimedia player
> Description :
> xine is a free multimedia player.  It plays back CDs, DVDs, and VCDs.
> It also decodes multimedia files like AVI, MOV, WMV, and MP3 from
> local disk drives, and displays multimedia streamed over the Internet.
> $

I ran into a similar problem last night with livna's RPMs.  They're
very badly broken (and apparently aren't getting tested before
release).  The actual issue for me was that there was an undefined
symbol in livna's ffmpeg RPM which xine relies upon to perform the
decoding.  This resulted in xine either hanging, or being unable to
play anything at all (and spewing a cryptic error).  I ended up
ripping out livna's ffmpeg, and installing the one from freshrpms
instead, which completely fixed the problem.

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