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DeKay

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Registered: 2008-11-15

Posts: 14

Can't play .mov files in Xine

Hi

I am pretty new to Arch but it is great so far.  I am running vanilla KDE4 with Xine as the Phonon backend.  One problem I'm having is that I can't play .mov files.  Other stuff like .wmv and .avi play ok.  I also have the codecs package installed.

For example, no luck with this file
http://media.crossfit.com/cf-video/Cros … llUps1.mov

Thanks!

skottish

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From: Here

Registered: 2006-06-16

Posts: 7,942

Re: Can't play .mov files in Xine

Welcome to the forums DeKay.

This isn't going to help, but I can confirm this using Xine 1.2 (dev) and almost a pure FFmpeg backend. ffplay and Mplayer can both play this file properly, so it's without a doubt a Xine problem. I ran a gdb trace on it and didn't really get anything to report upstream either.

Last edited by skottish (2008-11-15 23:11:08)

Snowman

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From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

Re: Can't play .mov files in Xine

It plays fine in xine here. It's on x86_64 with testing repo enabled but that shouldn't matter. I can't see what could be the problem. Is your system fully up-to-date?

DeKay

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Registered: 2008-11-15

Posts: 14

Re: Can't play .mov files in Xine

Yes, it is fully up to date.  I'm running 32 bit and don't have the testing repo enabled.  Since skottish is seing this too, it looks like more than a one-off type problem.

skottish

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Registered: 2006-06-16

Posts: 7,942

Re: Can't play .mov files in Xine

I should have mentioned that I'm using a development version of gxine also, and it's segfaulting on the above file. From my experience gxine is unstable to begin with, so I'm not really sure exactly where the crash is coming from.