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Hi, when I open up Xine and play a video, it says its playing but I get no sound/video. Just a blude sceen in the output window. Can someone help me please?
1 option, start Xine via a terminal window to get some verbose output on errors. Then look at the errors and see if it's something you can easily recognize/fix if not, post the error message here so we can advise you on how to go about fixing it Better yet...
Look into mplayer instead. There is quite a bit of documentation on the program, and it does seem to be easier troubleshooting problems while using it.
Got no errors when I launched it from Terminal and got no errors.
>> Look into mplayer instead. There is quite a bit of documentation on the program, and it does seem to be easier troubleshooting problems while using it.
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1. Its Xine, not mplayer.
2. What do you mean? I dont know what you're telling me to do. Xine gives me no errors when I play or anything.
>> I realize it's xine, not mplayer. I'm suggesting to use mplayer, not xine.
Oh, sorry I didn't realise.
Ok, I looked into the options and for audio driver selected I have nothing, and for video I have like Xv or something. Theres no drop down menu or anything, you need to type in the driver manually. How do I find the driver's name so I can enter it in?
xv should actually be sufficient for video. Audio, try things like /dev/dsp and /dev/audio
I'd really really suggest just going the mplayer route. You may get this fixed, but xine is truly a crappy program IMHO. Mplayer works much better, and has a decent gui now.
...wait. But the audio is working now. Just the video wont work. But any player I try the audio works yet the video is always the same blue screen thing.
Xine can play dvd's and all avis but you need to install an additional plugin last time i had the unpleasent experinece of using Xine. MPlayer is vastly better.
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