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The xine engine FAQ Copyright © 2001-2003 the xine project team ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Table of Contents General questions about xine and this document What is the xine engine? What's the aim and scope of this text? My question is not yet covered here - where can I ask for help? How do I pronounce "xine"? What are those xine-lib, xine-ui, gnome-xine, ... modules in cvs for? Where and how do I get the latest development version? How do I submit patches? Why is gxine's CVS module named "gnome-xine"? Where can I find pre-compiled binaries, e.g. RPMs? Building and installing xine from source What do I need to compile everything properly? How do I compile xine? Making your own RPM packages (xine-lib, xine-ui, gxine) Making your own .deb packages (xine-lib, xine-ui, gxine) Can I provide additional CFLAGS for compilation? Are there binaries for my AMD K7 (Athlon™) available? Can I build them? Build problems: xine engine (xine-lib) Build problems in frontends (gxine/xine-ui/...) Can I install xine in my home directory (without being root)? How to compile xine for Windows? Playback of various stream types DVD Playback with xine Can I watch Video CDs (VCDs)? SVCDS ? CD-i? Can I watch Quicktime (.mov, .mp4) files using xine? Real Network files/streams Can I watch Windows Media (.asf/.wmv/.wma) files using xine? Can I watch Digital TV (Digital Video Broadcast) using xine? How do I play streams from STDIN? How can I watch files with external AVI subtitles? Running xine I have a lot of dropped frames - what can I do? Oki, xine doesn't drop frames now but video output still is not really smooth! I have problems when using xine on FreeBSD, Solaris, ... ! What is aalib? How do I use it in xine? Does xine support my dxr3 / hollywood+ card? Audio related questions What audio drivers does xine support? OSS? Alsa? Arts? Esd? When I'm watching a movie, the sound effects are much higher in volume than the voices! When I play this stream, xine shows video but there's no audio! Can xine produce 4-/5-channel surround audio output? What about ac3 output via spdif to an external ac3 decoder? Getting SPDIF output from a SBLive 5.1 using OSS drivers Changing the volume with the GUI control has no effect! What's up!? Audio is stuttering and i see a lot of "metronom: fixing sound card drift by -2115 pts" on the console output xine seems to lose sound arbitrarily during playback, especially with DVDs Video related questions I can hear the audio - but I don't see a picture! I only see a blue (or green or black) video image most of the time. The image looks strange, it is shifted, cropped or shows weird lines! How can I make xine use the Xv extension and what drivers do I need? Some parts of my X Desktop get transparent when xine plays the video! The aspect ratio of the video is wrong! What is the difference between discarded and skipped frames? My xine is runing in black and white! / I only get a grey video output! Which is the best video driver to use? OSD and overlay related questions What is this "unscaled" OSD about? I can't see the OSD or it leaves a black box over the image! Why colours of overlays/subtitles seem to be "leaking"? Why external subtitles look so ugly? Why subtitles can't be displayed outside the video? What kinds of subtitle fonts does xine use? How to create own xine subtitle fonts? Encoding of external subtitles is bad. What is wrong? Error Messages: What they mean and what you can do Starting xine crashes X, I am logged out of my desktop! Starting xine fails with complains about audio drivers/devices! "no video port found" "Unable to open dvd drive (/dev/dvd)" My drive doesn't work and the kernel says "status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }" "demux error! 00 00 00 (should be 0x000001)" "audio driver 'oss' failed, using null driver instead" "video_out: throwing away image with pts xxx because it's too old" "No video plugin available to decode 'xxxxxx'." "w32codec: decoder failed to start. Is 'xxxxxx' installed?" xine just crashed on me - i didn't get any error message General questions about xine and this document What is the xine engine? The xine engine is a free media player engine. It comes in the form of a shared libarary and is typically used by media player frontends and other multimedia applications for playback of multimedia streams such as movies, radio/tv network streams, DVDs, VCDs. Since there are several frontends for the xine library available, this document has a problem when it comes to examples. The two most common frontends xine-ui and gxine are mixed in command line examples throughout this FAQ. When you use a different frontend, some of these will not work for you. The filename of the config file also varies amongst frontends. If you get confused, I recommend you try with one of xine-ui or gxine. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ What's the aim and scope of this text? The primary goal of this FAQ is to cover all recurring questions related to the xine engine. Frontend specific questions are usually not covered here. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ My question is not yet covered here - where can I ask for help? First of all be sure that your question is really not covered here and that you haven't just been a bit too lazy to read through all of this text. ;-). Also check out the documentation specific to the frontend (e.g. xine-ui or gxine or totem). That said - you are welcome to mail to our user mailing list: < xine-user@lists.sourceforge.net> Please provide some info about your setup so people have a chance to help you, e.g. include information about your audio/ video hardware and drivers you use, operating system, cpu type and some console output/any error messages. Also include command line parameters you have specified and information about the type of stream you're trying to play back. Also very important is the version of xine you're using and information about any additional plugins you may have installed on your system. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ How do I pronounce "xine"? As long as people know what you are talking about, you are free to pronounce it the way you like, but the official pronounciation is [ksi:n], like the name "Maxine" with the "Ma" removed. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ What are those xine-lib, xine-ui, gnome-xine