Xine crashes

[Paul Smith]

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.

Thanks. I can confirm that xine from Freshrpms works well, but not the
one from Livna.

Paul