HELP with xine install

orzetto · Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2003 1:44 am Post subject: HELP with xine install

Hi all,
I have seen that this topic has been debated before here, here and here.
But, since I'm pretty illiterate, I still have trouble. Xine STILL fails to compile when I try a emerge xine-ui in the xine-lib part, version 0.9.13-r2. If I try to compile xine-lib only, I get a 1.0beta and it compiles fine, but the ui requires again 0.9.13, so I'm back where I started.
The crash is as in this post.
The Xine website states in its HOWTO that versions of gui and libs should be equal- still it does provide few such corresponding pairs on its homepage. Is it outdated info? Is there a way to make an older gui run onto a newer lib?

I read many people solved this- how did you do exactly, if you had to explain a chimp how?
I had managed to install from the xine website's files, but it crashed again a few days later... I got so upset this evening when I found out that I could not play my dvd's anymore!

Help help help
-Federico
(help) :cry:

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tejesh83 · n00b Joined: 14 Mar 2003 Posts: 7

Seems to be some problems when you just emerge xine-ui the masked versions. Uninstall any old versions. Then install the latest ebuilds (beta?), installing xine-lib first. Not sure of the consequences of using masked/beta ebuilds, but it works so far for me.

emerge -C xine-ui
emerge -C xine-lib

cd /usr/portage/media-libs/xine-lib
emerge xine-lib-1_beta8.ebuild
cd /usr/portage/media-video/xine-ui
emerge xine-ui-0.9.19.ebuild

enjoy!

orzetto · Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2003 6:55 am Post subject:

Thanx man!
Finally I got it installed!

Still problems with Dvd, but that's another thread...

-Federico
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orzetto · Posted: Sat Mar 15, 2003 9:26 pm Post subject:

Ok, found a potential source of problems for others as well- I post it here so maybe it will be useful.

I had made a simlink /dev/dvd to my dvd device, as customary. Then, later, I activated scsi emulation for my CD-burner adding hdc=ide-scsi in grub.conf, and it turned out that the CD drives swapped address in the /dev/cdroms/ directory. /dev/dvd was now pointing to my burner instead than to the dvd player.

I was getting crazy as I had written the simlink myself, and did not suspect it could be wrong, as it worked before; it took me a day to figure it out.

So, in a nutshell - make sure you double-check that simlink if you get problems with the dvd.

-Federico
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