playing video keeps crashing my KDE. 64-bit trouble?

dragonajie · 2006-11-07 14:00:19

hi,

i have problems playing any sort of video (xvid,mpeg,divX) on Arch64 whether using mplayer or VLC. i never had this when using 32-bit Arch so i'm wondering if this is an Arch64 specific issue? whenever i try it, my KDE will crash and restart.

i'm using ATI X1300Pro with fglrx driver. really hope to solve this as i dont wanna have to go back to Windows to play videos

thanks.

Pierre · 2006-11-07 16:32:06

Strange, does this happen when using "vesa"-driver from xorg?

colnago · 2006-11-08 00:13:14

I tried this. Using noatun on arch64 caused my system to freeze. Kaffeine works though. ATI RS482 on board video with radeon driver.

AndyRTR · 2006-11-08 08:39:17

Please try the affected videos with mplayer to find out if it is a codec issue or application related.

Pierre · 2006-11-08 08:44:01

I can confirm this (with nvidia-card) Only noatum makes X freeze. Works fine with Kaffeine.

dragonajie · 2006-11-08 11:28:29

hi,

ok i will try kaffein. mplayer from repo doesnt work for me.

chrismortimore · 2006-11-08 12:21:11

Out of curiousity, what video output driver are you using? Given it is a problem affecting both nvidia and ati, perhaps it's a bug in the 64bit implementation of xvideo (or similar).

What engine is kaffeine using when it works? Gstreamer or xine? Or does it work with both?

skottish · 2006-11-08 12:31:23

The most recent MPlayer in the repos for sure doesn't work right (at least with NVidia). I've been using a copy I built from SVN that does work. VLC is working fine.

AndyRTR · 2006-11-08 12:51:19

kaffeine uses xine engine. for me mplayer is fine with nvidia driver.

please start any player from commandline to get a helpful error message.

Back2Cali · 2006-11-08 18:48:54

This is what I get when trying to start mplayer from console:

mplayer: error while loading shared libraries: libslang.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

AndyRTR · 2006-11-08 19:23:56

ok. since mplayer left current i have built it with slang installed that is not in any repo. i will rebuild it without slang.

Sry for confusion. I have no special chroot for building extra packages. Maybe I will setup one when more community packages will hit my system.

dragonajie · 2006-11-09 02:40:57

chrismortimore wrote:

Out of curiousity, what video output driver are you using? Given it is a problem affecting both nvidia and ati, perhaps it's a bug in the 64bit implementation of xvideo (or similar).
What engine is kaffeine using when it works? Gstreamer or xine? Or does it work with both?

i am using the fglrx driver for ATI. on media players all settings are default.

the errors i got when starting repo version of mplayer is same as what is feedbacked by Back2Cali.

strange thing is the crashes happen even when i used chrooted 32-bit version of VLC.

i still haven't given Kaffeine a try yet, i will try it tonight.

thanks all.

dragonajie · 2006-11-10 13:29:57

bummer! kafeine also doesn't work for me! i'm wondering if i am an isolated case.

my system spec is amd64x2 3600+ with ATI X1300Pro, 1 GB of RAM.

AndyRTR · 2006-11-10 20:14:38

Back2Cali wrote:

This is what I get when trying to start mplayer from console:
mplayer: error while loading shared libraries: libslang.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

This should be fixed now.

dragonajie · 2006-11-14 12:48:37

hi!

can anyone tell me how i can trace these crashes? its driving me nuts not being able to play video at all under linux.

~/.xsession-errors showed me this, but i'm not sure if this is the right file to look for debugging

CLIENT: Task: Task::done()
CLIENT: Task: emitting finished
CLIENT: Task: Task::done()
CLIENT: Task: emitting finished
CLIENT: Task: Task::done()
CLIENT: Task: emitting finished
CLIENT: Task: Task::done()
CLIENT: Task: emitting finished
CLIENT: Task: Task::done()
CLIENT: Task: emitting finished
CLIENT: Task: Task::done()
CLIENT: Task: emitting finished
CLIENT: Task: Task::done()
CLIENT: Task: emitting finished
CLIENT: Task: Task::done()
CLIENT: Task: emitting finished
CLIENT: Task: Task::done()
CLIENT: Task: emitting finished
CLIENT: Task: Task::done()
CLIENT: Task: emitting finished
CLIENT: Task: Task::done()
CLIENT: Task: emitting finished

dragonajie · 2006-11-24 07:40:43

can someone tell me how to debug the crashes? thanks

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