FC5: rmvb movies in xine don't work.

1xused · #1 31st March 2007, 05:18 AM

Since I reinstalled Fedora, I've been having problems playing .rmvb files in xine (ver 0.99.4) (xine-lib ver 1.1.2-17). This is the same version of xine that I used before, when it worked. I couldn't update to xine-lib 1.1.4: there were a bunch of dependancies that I couldn't find. I have all the codecs installed that I did before, I believe, and can play avi, mkv, ogm, mpeg without errors. I've searched this forum and the xine-user mailing list, and tried: changing the directory xine looks for codecs in, copying the codecs to the directory it looks for them in by default (they were already there), and swearing at it. None of these things helped. I have a modified screenshot attached to show the errors I get ("Play anyway?" "A problem occur while loading a library or decoder: cook.so" "A problem occur while loading a library or decoder: drvc.so") Does anyone know how to fix this?

1xused · #2 31st March 2007, 10:02 PM

<sarcasm>It's nice how nobody can help me. </sarcasm>
I've tried installing mplayer, to use that instead, but it also refuses to play .rmvb files. Media Player classic under wine fails, although it works in Win2k.
Someone want to help me with this? Xine + rmvb worked before.

lazlow · #3 1st April 2007, 01:04 AM

You can try to install install xine-lib-extras-nonfree from livna. rmvb is an odd format so that is part of the problem.

1xused · #4 1st April 2007, 06:10 AM

Ah, something I thought I already had installed, but didn't. Thanks.

overule · #5 1st April 2007, 06:17 AM

Realplayer plays rmvb format too.

1xused · #6 1st April 2007, 06:55 AM

I don't like realplayer : ). That will be my last resort.
I tried installing xine-lib-extras-nonfree as suggested. The results were not encouraging: yum cannot/will not import the correct gpg key for one of the required packages, and so refuses to install any of them. Rpm reports that xine-lib-extras (a dependancy of xine) conflicts with xine-lib-extras-nonfree, and so refuses to install anything. This is quite frustrating. Any suggestions?
As an alternative, if I could get mplayer to play rmvb files, I'd be happy with that. However, it plays sound without video on .rmvb's.

lazlow · #7 1st April 2007, 07:41 AM

Are you mixing repos? You have to choose ONE extra repo(generally livna or rpmforge) and just use it. My guess is you installed xine from rpmforge. If you uninstall xine, disable rpmforge, and reinstall from livna everthing should work ok.

1xused · #8 1st April 2007, 05:41 PM

I may have downloaded xine-lib-extras manually from somewhere. I'll try your suggestion.

1xused · #9 2nd April 2007, 10:36 PM

I uninstalled xine, xine-lib, xine-lib-extras and installed xine, xine-lib, xine-lib-extras-nonfree from the livna repo. Upon trying to play an rmvb file, I don't get the cook.so error, but I still get "play anyway" and "drvc.so". The file does not play.

1xused · #10 4th April 2007, 01:00 AM

Does anyone have any more thoughts on this subject? Maybe on how to get mplayer to rmvbs, since I can't get xine to?

1xused · #11 5th April 2007, 01:22 AM

Thanks for your help, those who replied. I'm now abandoning this thread.

yhdemail · #12 6th April 2007, 07:18 AM

turn off SElinux and try

yhdemail · #13 6th April 2007, 07:23 AM

If turn off SElinux，xine can play *.rmvb please send a mail to me!
I use fc6, when i turn off SElinux, xine play rmvb fine! turn on SElinux xine can not play rmvb.
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