Xine crashes
Philip Walden
pwaldenlinux at pacbell.net
Wed Jan 17 15:10:16 UTC 2007
Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> 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.
>
Anyone know if the livna xine package has been fixed yet?
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