Problem with Xine when playing VCD's

[Ashish Rajasekhar]

Hi,
   I wanted to play a VCD on Ubuntu Dapper with the help of Xine. I launched Xine in the terminal. And as I started to play the VCD, Xine disappeared leaving this error message on the terminal.

ashish@ash:~$ xine
This is xine (X11 gui) - a free video player v0.99.4.
(c) 2000-2004 The xine Team.
xine: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/xine/plugins/1.1.1/xineplug_inp_vcd.so: undefined symbol: vcdinfo_get_seg_resolution
ashish@ash:~$

These are all the package related to Xine installed on my laptop:

ashish@ash:~$ dpkg -l | grep xine
ii libxine-extracodecs 1.1.1+ubuntu1-2 the xine video/media player library, binary
ii libxine-main1 1.1.1+ubuntu2-7.1 the xine video/media player library, binary
ii libxine1c2 1.1.1+ubuntu1-2 the xine video/media player library, transit
ii libxinerama1 1.0.1-0ubuntu2 X11 Xinerama extension library
rc totem-xine 1.4.1-0ubuntu4 A simple media player for the Gnome desktop
ii xine-ui 0.99.4-0ubuntu6 the xine video player, user interface
ashish@ash:~$

Note: the original reporter indicated the bug was in package 'xine'; however, that package was not published in Ubuntu.

[Onkar Shinde (onkarshinde)]

I can confirm this bug. I faced it with gxine. It doesn't appear with all VCDs.

Using dapper final with updated libxine-main1

The bug is with xine library and not with UI.

[Onkar Shinde (onkarshinde)]

A workaround (change in xine-lib source) is suggested here
http://itdp.fh-biergarten.de/Xine-users/2005-09/msg00039.html

[Onkar Shinde (onkarshinde)]

A supposed workaround is available whose link I have added in my last comment.

[Philip Paquette (pcpaquette)]

Setting from package ubuntu (undefined) to xine-lib
Can you confirm this bug still happens in dapper, edgy/feisty?
Thanks

[Philip Paquette (pcpaquette)]

According to this page, http://www.itdp.de/Xine-devel/2005-12/msg00081.html, a fixed was released in 2005... Bug is due to an outdated version of libvcd... setting as fixed. Sourceforge upstream doesn't seem to be looking at their list of bugs.

[Brian Rogers (brog45)]

But has that patch been applied? Can someone confirm that the latest xine-lib works correctly now? I had the problem with a VCD that had been created using Nero Burning ROM. There was a brief segment of video at the beginning of the disk that said the disk had been created with Nero.... I no longer have that disk. Maybe someone has or could create such a disk for testing.

By the way, that segment was maybe only one frame long. I did not see it until after I applied the patch. I think I paused and rewound to the beginning of the video.

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