Re: xine engine error

Darren Salt <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.video.xine.user
Message-ID <4F5CAD2C34%[email protected]>
I demand that BlownCPU may or may not have written...

> I've just installed xine with yum in Fedora8 and I am having problem, I am
> also new to Linux.

> When I open xine I get this error:

> -xine engine error-
> There is no demuxer plugin available to handle
> "file:/usr/share/xine/skins/xine-ui_logo.mpv".
> Usually this means that the file format was not recognised.

That looks like the usual lack of MPEG codecs etc. in Fedora. Install from 
http://rpm.livna.org/ instead.

> I then press more and plugin Tab and get at the very bottom:
> load_plugins: skipping unreadable plugin directory /home/john/.xine/plugins
> Could this be a permission issue?

No; the directory doesn't exist, but that's harmless.

> Also when I open a file <file>.wmv or avi it does not want to play them :(

Fedora b0rkage again. See above.

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