Xine and RH

[Net Llama!]

I'd recommend MPlayer if all your'e doing is watching MPGs.  Its far more
stable & full featured than Xine.  About the only thing that i've found
Xine to be useful for is watching DVDs, and even there its not too stable.

On Wed, 19 Jun 2002, Ted Ozolins wrote:
> I have xine running on RH 7.3, COL 3.1.1, Mandrake 8.1 and Gentoo 1.2 I can
> view *.mpeg clips through a browser using xine quite flawlessly on all the
> distro's except RH. To verify that its not the content locking up the system,
> I use several computers each with a different distro to view the same clip.
> On just about every second clip RH locks up solid. I can not even go to
> another consol to kill the process. Hell, I can't even telnet into the RH box
> when xine locks on it. There are no clues in the logs.
>
>  This is the forth time I've decided to give RH a try and probably my last.
> Gentoo runs quite well on the same box and xine does not lock up no matter
> what. I see that Slack's new release is out, I'll have to give that a try and
> see how it dwells.
>
>  I'm rapidly running out of distro's to recommend to newbies, damb! That
> leaves only COL 3.1.1 and SuSe. I can only pray that there will be a COL3.2.
>
>

-- 
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Lonni J Friedman				netllama at linux-sxs.org
Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo		     http://netllama.ipfox.com