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steve_v

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Registered: 2006-02-11

Posts: 80

Kaffeine embedded crash fixed when compiled with libxcb support?

From kaffeine website:

Embedded Kaffeine crash fixed.

This long standing bug is now fixed in current svn ...

In order to make it possible, we have ported Kaffeine and xine to xcb (a thread-safe replacement for xlib).
You can give it a try right now:
1) install libxcb=>1.0
2) install current xine-lib cvs (it contains xcb based video output plugins: xshm and xv)
2) install current Kaffeine svn

Notes
a) Both xine-lib and Kaffeine have to be compiled with xcb support (autodetected, check configure results).
b) Kaffeine will still work with xlib based video out plugins if compiled without xcb (but then, no fix!)

From 0.8.4 changelog:

* xine-part: support for xcb. Requires libxcb 1.0 and xine-lib 1.1.5. Fixes several issues.

Any reason not to incorporate this? If it lives up to it's promises It could mean kde users only need ONE media player :-)  (I have 2 installed just to get DVD menus and embedding in konqueror without crashing)

Any thoughts?

Cheers,

Steve.