Re: Kino Crashes Opening Files

Stefan Richter wrote:
>> On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 4:54 AM, dhk <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> I think the problem is in the environment or setup somewhere.  I 
>>> don't have
>>> the answer, but I think I'm getting closer.  So please bear with me as I
>>> explain.
>>>
>>> First)  This is kino version 1.3.1 I'm working with.  There isn't any
>>> libavcodec package in the portage tree as far as I've seen, but there 
>>> is a
>>> libavc1394 version 0.5.3. The highest version of lbdv is 1.0.0-r2.
> 
> $ equery b libavcodec
> [ Searching for file(s) libavcodec in *... ]
> media-video/ffmpeg-0.4.9_p20090201 (/usr/include/libavcodec)
> 
> equery is provided by the gentoolkit package.
> 
> Opening files works for me here on an amd64 Gentoo box.
> 
> [But capturing doesn't work for me; Gentoo's kino-1.3.1 and -1.3.3 as 
> well as dvgrab-3.4 stop early after one frame or a few frames; 
> dvgrab-3.1 works though.  I still need to check what's going on --- this 
> is a newly set-up amd64 box replacing a dead i586 one.  I now noticed 
> that my older secondary Gentoo amd64 box misbehaves the same; apparently 
> I never tried capturing in Kino on that PC and only rarely with dvgrab. 
> Eventually I'll reinstall the secondary PC as an i586 system for test 
> purposes...]

With some help from the Gentoo group, I found the problem.  Version 
1.3.3 was masked.  I had to add media-video/kino ~amd64 to the 
package.keywords file.  Now the problem is gone.  Thanks all.

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