Bug 49998

Summary: Unable to play video with xine artsplugin
Product: [Unmaintained] arts Reporter: Lauri Watts <lauri>
Component: xine_artspluginAssignee: Multimedia Developers <kde-multimedia>
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME    
Severity: crash CC: rdieter
Priority: HI    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Compiled Sources   
OS: FreeBSD   
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Description Lauri Watts 2002-10-31 18:23:42 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE Devel)
Installed from:    Compiled sources
Compiler:          GCC 2.95.4 
OS:          FreeBSD

With a fresh install of libxine, and using a video that Xine will play quite happily, I get this from arts when trying to use kaboodle:

UnixManager: got notifyIO
socketconnection created, fd = 13
search playobject, mimetype = video/mpeg
creating xinePlayObject to play file
/usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /usr/local/kde-cvs/lib/libarts_xine.so: Undefined symbol "init_video_out_plugin"

Arts crashes here, if I restart it, and press play in kaboodle, it just does the same again.

Not sure where to go with this, ldd on everything arts/xine/libxine related doesn't show anything missing, and as I mentioned, xine itself will play any of the files I'm testing just fine.
Comment 1 Lauri Watts 2002-10-31 18:26:29 UTC 
I was going to report that the thumbnail generation also crashes arts and freezes up the gui, but 
I just realised when watching the arts terminal output, that it's exactly the same problem.
Comment 2 Rob Kaper 2002-11-06 00:30:23 UTC 
My arts doesn't crash on video thumbnails, it actually creates them rather well.. 
but I do get a mcop SIGPIPE overwrite when using Konq as file manager when 
video previews are enabled quite often. Disabling the previews disables all 
problems as well..
Comment 3 mklencke 2002-11-12 14:42:05 UTC 
Thumbnail generation starts a lot of artsd instances on my computer. A friend of mine who's running KDE CVS too has the exact same problem. Most of the time, 1 or 2 movies get thumbnails and then nothing else happens. Kaboodle won't start anymore either. After a 'killall -9 artsd" in Konsole, everything works again.  Oh, and btw, Konqueror also stopped responding a few times. This should probably be regarded a showstopper, as it can hang Konqueror and always hangs the multimedia system of KDE.
Comment 4 mklencke 2002-11-12 14:43:50 UTC 
Update: it seems that getting Meta info has the same effect, because the file tooltip causes 
multiple artsd instances to start as well...
Comment 5 John Morris 2002-11-17 10:00:05 UTC 
Same problem here.  Thumbnails hang artsd when showing a preview of a video. 
Any attempt to play video through noatun hang artsd as well.  Have to kill it. 
Xine plays the videos just fine.
Comment 6 John Morris 2002-11-17 10:08:24 UTC 
Ignore my last comment.  I found the problem.  I had a plugin for xine that had
an unresolved symbol.  Xine didn't complain, but it caused artsd to crash.  I
removed the plugin and now all is well!
Comment 7 Rex Dieter 2003-02-06 15:32:34 UTC 
John,  For curiosity's sake, which plugin was it?  How did you determine which one had an 
unresolved symbol?
Comment 8 Stefan Gehn 2004-04-29 09:52:20 UTC 
Is this problem still persistent with recent libxine and xine_artsplug versions? I haven't had problems with this plugin for quite some time now :)
Comment 9 Lauri Watts 2004-04-30 17:26:24 UTC 
Thumbnails now work, but playing videos in any of the kdemultimedia players still fails.  All the videos I tried play fine with xine itself and mplayer.

I don't have any debug or console output, playing a video results in a blast of sound (no images) and then an arts crash.  I'll rebuild with debug to see if it's still the same problem.
Comment 10 Lauri Watts 2005-01-05 21:00:26 UTC 
This is gone now, there's still some xine plugin issues, but they are not related to the crashes here.