The Xine Video Player HOWTO

Rich Wareham, <[email protected]>

1. Introduction

• 1.1 New versions of this document
• 1.2 Feedback
• 1.3 Disclaimer
• 1.4 Copyright information
• 1.5 How do I submit changes or additions to the HOWTO?

2. About Xine

• 2.1 Where can I obtain Xine?
• 2.2 Xine Features
• 2.3 Supported platforms and requirements
• 2.4 Where can I ask questions about or report bugs on Xine?

3. Compiling and installing Xine

• 3.1 Where are the installation instructions?
• 3.2 Quick-start installation guide
• 3.3 Installing Xine in a different directory
• 3.4 How can I supply additional flags to the C-compiler?
• 3.5 Pre-built binaries

4. Using Xine

• 4.1 Quick Start
• 4.2 Specifying a video source on the command-line.
• 4.3 Selecting Audio tracks
• 4.4 Changing skin
• 4.5 Displaying subtitles
• 4.6 Changing video output method
• 4.7 Forcing the use of a particular audio driver
• 4.8 Auto-play
• 4.9 Configuring Xine
• 4.10 Tips and tricks
• 4.11 Tweaking Xine

5. Playing DVDs with Xine

• 5.1 DVD terminology
• 5.2 Preparing your system to watch DVDs
• 5.3 `Alternate' DVD plugins

6. Watching AVI files with Xine

• 6.1 What to do if Xine crashes when I try to play AVI files

7. Platform Specific Notes and Requirements

• 7.1 FreeBSD

8. Increasing Performance

• 8.1 Hardware
• 8.2 Set up and use raw devices for dvd access
• 8.3 The XVideo extension
• 8.4 MTRR (Linux)
• 8.5 Optimising drive access

9. Troubleshooting

• 9.1 Xine keeps complaining about not being able to connect to a socket
• 9.2 I use a kernel between 2.4.10 and 2.4.15 inclusive and Xine and am getting strange errors
• 9.3 I don't get a DVD button in Xine
• 9.4 All seems good but halfway through a DVD the playback stops or loops
• 9.5 I get this message: demux error! 00 00 00 (should be 0x000001)
• 9.6 I get lots of ``200 frames delivered, 200 frames skipped, 0 frames discarded''
• 9.7 When I play a particular file/stream, Xine shows some pictures but there's no audio
• 9.8 Using Linux, I get an error which contains status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
• 9.9 I am having trouble playing a SVCD
• 9.10 Xine drops a lot of frames
• 9.11 Fullscreen doesn't work
• 9.12 The AC3 via S/PDIF does not work with my soundcard
• 9.13 Where and how do I get the latest development version?
• 9.14 How do I use the dvd plugin and/or dvd:// MRL?
• 9.15 I get the message unable to open dvd drive (/dev/dvd) or
• 9.16 How do I play streams from STDIN?
• 9.17 How do I change the skin?
• 9.18 How can I change color/brightness/contrast?
• 9.19 Some parts of my X Desktop get transparent when Xine plays the video!
• 9.20 I get no sound, but ``audio driver 'oss' failed, using null driver instead.''
• 9.21 After running xine several times it fail's to allocated shared memory
• 9.22 I have problems when using Xine on FreeBSD
• 9.23 I think I am pronouncing Xine wrong
• 9.24 I think I found a bug!

10. Contributing to Xine

11. Further resources

• 11.1 DVD information
• 11.2 Developer resources