Please help me!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Locator]

I am trying to watch a DVD using xine - and xine doesn't start up anymore (although it was working fine not to long ago)! How do I get it working properly again (right now it won't even run when I am in "root" mode)?

[stretchedthin]

What error do you get when using xine in the terminal?

[MarkGrieveson]

I too am having issues with xine (and other multimedia applications.)  See included code tags below.  

Perhaps you could try running xine-check in your terminal to see if any issues could be found.  For me it found nothing, but you may have more luck.

Code:

mark:$ xine
xine: error while loading shared libraries: libavutil.so.50: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
vector:/~/slackpacks/LO/RPM
mark:$

So, for me, xine does not work.  I ran xine-check, but that didn't give me anything helpful (see below).

Code:

mark:$ xine-check
Please be patient, this script may take a while to run...
[ good ] you're using Linux, doing specific tests
[ good ] looks like you have a /proc filesystem mounted.
[ hint ] ummm, you're running a strange kernel version.
         Your kernel says, it's version 3.0.8, but I don't know
         anything about this version. That probably means
         You should either upgrade your kernel or upgrade this script.
         press <enter> to continue...

[ good ] intel compatible processor, checking MTRR support
[ good ] you have MTRR support and there are some ranges set.
[ good ] found the player at /usr/bin/xine
[ good ] /usr/bin/xine is in your PATH
[ good ] plugin directory /usr/lib/xine/plugins/2.1 exists.
[ good ] found unknown plugin: xineplug_flac.so
[ good ] found unknown plugin: xineplug_sputext.so
[ good ] found unknown plugin: xineplug_vdr.so
[ good ] found unknown plugin: xineplug_xiph.so
[ good ] found input plugins
[ good ] found demux plugins
[ good ] found decoder plugins
[ good ] found video_out plugins
[ good ] found audio_out plugins
[ good ] skin directory /usr/share/xine/skins exists.
[ good ] found logo in /usr/share/xine/skins
[ good ] I even found some skins.
[ good ] /dev/cdrom points to /dev/sr0
[ good ] /dev/dvd points to /dev/sr0
[ hint ] Your DVD drive seems not to be attached via ATAPI.
         This might be due to the use of an ide-scsi emulation.
         If you really have a SCSI DVD drive, your SCSI controller is likely
         to do perfect DMA, so there's no reason to worry about this.
         However, if you're using ide-scsi, there is a chance that DMA is
         disabled for the DVD drive. Moreover, I don't know how to enable
         DMA in that case, so you probably have to live with some performance
         loss. (FIXME: check for /proc/ide, provide solution)
         press <enter> to continue...

[ good ] found xvinfo: X-Video Extension version 2.2
[ good ] your Xv extension supports YV12 overlays (improves MPEG performance)
[ good ] your Xv extension supports YUY2 overlays
[ good ] Xv ports:  YUY2 YV12 UYVY I420 YUY2 YV12 UYVY I420

[Locator]

What error do you get when using xine in the terminal?

Nothing whatsoever happens as far as I can tell, and to the best of my knowledge I have not made any changes in my system since it was working correctly (although I admit that I did end up having to reinstall the entire operating system from scratch yesterday due to a system crash - something like the "blue screen of death" in Windows, but with a black background instead - which resulted in a loop during which my computer kept getting restarted).

[Metodej]

Maybe it is too late for answer, but at least if somebody will run to same problem...

There is clearly stated what us wrong with xine

Code:

xine: error while loading shared libraries: libavutil.so.50:

Maybe you were reinstalling this library, or someother program did something etc.

So install (reinstall) this library and it should work or change the version (downgrade/upgrade)

[MarkGrieveson]

Maybe it is too late for answer, but at least if somebody will run to same problem...

There is clearly stated what us wrong with xine

Code:

xine: error while loading shared libraries: libavutil.so.50:

Maybe you were reinstalling this library, or someother program did something etc.

So install (reinstall) this library and it should work or change the version (downgrade/upgrade)

In another thread somewhere I did find the answer to this library issue (which existed in a few programs).  From the error that points out the lib file, it can be solved by creating a soft link to the lib file named but without the final numerical digit of the named file.  So, above "libavutil.so.50" was named as a file that was not found.  However, on the system the file "libavutil.so" does indeed exist.  So, a soft link to the file needs to be made:

Code:

root:# ln -s /usr/lib/libavutil.so /usr/lib/libavutil.so.50

The above code stems from the error given ("error while loading shared libraries: libavutil.so.50").  If it said "libavutil.so.6320", then that would be the link.

Anyway, I think most of these issues have now been fixed, since I haven't seen any of these errors for a while.