[packman] Re: No video in xvid

[Henrik Ingo]

Quoting Henrik Ingo <henrik.ingo at avoinelama.fi>:

> Hello packman team
>
> (Please tell me if there is a mailing list I should address instead of this
> address. I decided to turn to you first, before going to xvid.org)
>
> I'm having problems with the xvid library on a recently installed SUSE 10.1.
> When I install it, the picture disappears and I get only sound. This happens
> with all players and video formats (mpeg etc).
>
> More detailed:
>
> 1) Install SUSE 10.1.
> - can play "free" video files with kaffeine
>
> 2) Install libxine1 and w32codec-all from your repository :-)
> - still everything works
> - mp3, divx, xvid... works
>
> 3) Install mplayer, which also requires xvid (libxvidcore.so.4 to be precise)
> - after this, everything works as before, both on kaffeine and now also on
> mplayer
>
> 4) reboot
> - Now there is no picture on any video format on any player. Totem gives an
> error msg, which I didn't write down. Others just play the video file with
> sound-only.
>
> 5) uninstall xvid (and mplayer, since it won't start without)
> - still sound only
>
> 6) reboot
> - Now kaffeine works again
>
>
> I also tested with an xvid 1.0 library I downloaded from rpmseek.com. And it
> behaves the same.
>
> After quick googling it seems things work great for others. Do you have any
> ideas what I could do to make things work?
>
> I also thought I could rebuild mplayer to not depend on libxvidcore, but
> there
> are too many requirements to start doing that just on a whim.
>
> It seems mplayer works better than kaffeine as a plugin for firefox, so I'm
> interested in debugging this further if I can find someone who's interested
> in
> helping me out.
>
> henrik ingo, finland
>
>
>
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