Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4054 mails)

[eddieleprince <eddie.howson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 27 January 2006 08:04, Bob S wrote:
> Hello SuSE people,
>
> The dumb question is xine is a stand-alone package, right? I think it is
> installed but when I do a rpm query on it, the reply is that it is not
> installed. Yet with a locate xine, there are about a gazillion files listed
> so something is there.
>
> I then use apt to try and install xine. I get a message that there are two
> files xine-lib  and  libxine1 and I must choose one. Apparently they are
> mutually exclusive. If I choose one the other is uninstalled and vice
> versa. I presently have lib-xine installed. There does not appear to be a
> stand-alone xine package.  ?????  Is this right?
>
> The reason for this question is that I cannot open a DVD movie with xine
> and if I try to use Kaffeine it complains that I do not have the proper
> codecs. Now, I do have every codec known to man AND libdvdcss installed. I
> can however, navigate to the vob file and Kaffeine plays it properly.
>
> This used to work very nicely in 9.2. Since my "upgrade" to 10.0 it does
> not. Help me understand/fix this please?
>
> Bob S.

libxine1 should be okay.  Think of it as the backend.  What you need now is a 
frontend so grab xine-ui or something like that and you should be fine.

Eddie