xine codec issues? (YDL 4.0.1)

[Paul Higgins]

Thanks for the info.  I do already have the latest version of xine (just 
checked).  Unfortunately, mplayer refuses to run on YDL 4.0.1, at least it 
does on my iBook G3.  There was a thread about this on the newbie list a 
couple months ago.  The version that yum installs (supposedly the latest one) 
just will not run.  Maybe it will if I compile from source, but I've never 
done that before and I'm somewhat intimidated.  

Anyway, I installed xine using yum as a solution to the mplayer problem.  
(Mplayer is also buggy on OS X; it's probably not something confined to 
Linux).  And VLC doesn't seem to be either in the YDL repos or at freshrpms.

-PRH

On Friday 10 March 2006 20:22, Cian Duffy wrote:
> On 11/03/06, Paul Higgins <higg0008 at tc.umn.edu> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > IAre there more codecs for .mov and Quicktime than what come
> > built-in to xine?  Will this cause xine to hang?
>
> A codec being missing will not cause xine to hang; however a poorly
> implemented one will. Most QuickTime-encapsulated codecs are supported on
> Linux natively and well by now, however. I'd suggest either updating xine
> or using a different media player - mplayer or vlc - to try the file. If
> they all hang, its a bug in the underlying libavcodec.