corrupt xine catalog.cache clobbers playback

[Robert Persson]

Binary package hint: libxine1

Somehow my ~/.xine/catalog.cache (or perhaps it was my ~/.xine/win32registry got corrupted and applications that use xine as a back end would play less than they should or nothing at all.

Examples:

Kaboodle would play oggs, but when it came to an mp3 it just stayed silent and did something else mildly weird, but I can't remember what.

Amarok would play nothing at all, not even wavs, complaining about the lack of a demuxer or output plugin or something.

Gxine wouldn't play anything and made similar complaints.

Removing my ~/.xine cured the problem. I'm attaching the old one somewhere below.

[Robert Persson (ireneshusband)]

Here is the attachment.

I should probably add that I had been using the feisty backports version of amarok without knowing it (due to a bug in both adept and synaptic) when my audio playback got clobbered.

[Robert Persson (ireneshusband)]

It happened to me again today. This time I deleted ~/.xine/catalog.cache and the problem went away. Unfortunately I forgot to save a copy of catalog.cache before I deleted it, so I can't attach it here.

Does the fact that it has happened to me twice mean there is something peculiar about my system? Are there any other files I could post here that would help you diagnose the problem?

[Jorge Suárez de Lis (ys)]

It happened to me today, too. The same behaviour with Amarok. Deleting ~/.xine solved it. Next time I'll keep the files, sorry.

Also, about a week or so Amarok complained about xine is not capable of playing mp3 files, and invited me to install MP3 support. I agreed and that did nothing. Again that time, deleting ~/.xine solved it.

[Jorge Suárez de Lis (ys)]

I starting suspect from kaffeine.

Are you using it also? A friend of mine that also uses kaffeine has had the same problem. Some other who doesn't haven't had it.

[sanix (bormotunchik)]

I think I have the same problem. The difference is amarok shows "No suitable demux plugin. This often means that the file format is not supported". rm -rf ~/.xine solved this.

[xteejx (xteejx)]

Marking as Confirmed - Medium Importance.
I am unable to test this, can someone test this in Jaunty please and Confirm if it is still a problem?
Thank you.

[xteejx (xteejx)]

According to the Debian bugwatch, this was fixed in version 1.1.16.3-2 but we do not have it in Ubuntu just yet, so leaving as Confirmed

[Hendrik Grahl (grahl)]

I just encountered this problem on Karmic. No idea how it happened. After deleting .xine I can play mp3s again. This happen with amarok 2.2.0 and 2.2.1.

[xteejx (xteejx)]

This bug was fixed in xine-lib version 1.1.16.3-2, so all versions since Lucid will be fixed. Thank you.