libxine1-ffmpeg not installed with xfmedia

[Boris Burtin]

Binary package hint: xfmedia

When I ran "sudo apt-get install xfmedia", the libxine1-ffmpeg package didn't get installed automatically. As a result, audio playback kept failing. After a manual "sudo apt-get install libxine1-ffmpeg", xfmedia started working. Other users are hitting this too:

http://www.geekzone.co.nz/foobar/6042

[Michael Casadevall (mcasadevall)]

xfmedia on jaunty currently only depends on libxine1; libxine1-ffmpeg is currently in main in intrepid, and jaunty, and in universe, so adding it as a dependency isn't a huge issue, but I'll run this by other Xubuntu developers before making any changes. As a note, what release of Xubuntu are you running, Gusty, Hardy, Intrepid, or jaunty?

[Boris Burtin (boris-burtin)]

I'm running Intrepid, the regular Ubuntu Desktop release, not Xubuntu.

[Lionel Le Folgoc (mrpouit)]

See Bug #257611. Xfmedia should recommend libxine-ffmpeg, otherwise mpeg support is missing.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package xfmedia - 0.9.2-6ubuntu1

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xfmedia (0.9.2-6ubuntu1) jaunty; urgency=low

  * debian/control:
    - Added Recommends on libxine-ffmpeg to make sure MPEG is available
      in default package installation (LP: #307578)

 -- Michael Casadevall <email address hidden> Thu, 18 Dec 2008 10:30:53 -0500

[Paul (treepata)]

Appreciate the efforts on fixing this.

I was experiencing the same issues on my freshly installed Xubuntu 8.10 PC, but then with video playback (wmv files for example). Although I had all common codecs installed (through Totem, which I use as well), Xfmedia didn't start up any of the videos.

It would only start up, blink with the video screen once and disappear (leaving only the play/pause/stop screen etc. behind).

Then read somewhere that installing libxine1-ffmpeg could help (thanks Boris). Did that and now it works without problems!

[Alex Valavanis (valavanisalex)]

Intrepid Ibex reached end-of-life on 30 April 2010 so I am closing the
report. The bug has been fixed in newer releases of Ubuntu.

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

Hardy has seen the end of its life and is no longer receiving any updates. Marking the Hardy task for this ticket as "Won't Fix".