Faith of xfmedia.

[Brian J. Tarricone]

On Sat, 02 Jun 2007 17:48:50 -0700 Kok, Auke wrote:

> 
> did you mean "fate" instead of "faith" ?
> 
> Samuli Suominen wrote:
> > Be noted this is no rant, but a question of xfmedia future.
> > 
> > I've tried starting xfmedia from 2 machines now, one of them doesn't
> > get GUI at all. XCB enabled libX11 and xine-lib-1.1.6 on X86. [1]
> > has a backtrace from that of somekind.
> 
> works great here...

Same here.

> > I've tried starting it also on AMD64 with no fancy XCB enabled
> > libX11 and xine-lib-1.1.4 and I got a GUI but it freezes after
> > playing any video for few seconds, with both outputs, X11 and XV.
> > NVidia card.
> 
> maybe nvidia driver issue?

I don't have amd64 hardware to test on, but it works fine for me on x86
with nvidia's binary drivers, as well as nv.

> > I'm willing to provide more debug information if that is required,
> > but however I'm not qualified to provide patches unfortunately.
> > 
> > If development has died, we can go ahead removing it but I would be
> > nice to get a confirmation of that..
> 
> well, xfmedia is pretty mature, so not much development is actually
> needed except bugfixes. You should ask yourself why it broke for you
> and not for other people first. Perhaps this is a xine+amd64+nvidia
> issue...

Heh, thanks Auke, but I wouldn't call it particularly mature.  It has
quite a few rather annoying problems that seem to have cropped up
recently on newer releases of Xorg.  I haven't had the time to work on
it in quite a while. There's a lot still to be done, but I'm not sure
when I'll get back to it.  So, not dead, but definitely stalled.

> > [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=178759

From the output in that bug report:

"Compiler did not align stack variables. Libavcodec has been miscompiled
and may be very slow or crash. This is not a bug in libavcodec,
but in the compiler. Do not report crashes to FFmpeg developers."

Clearly there are other problems going on here.

	-brian