On Sat, Apr 06, 2013 at 02:07:12AM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: > On my current (LFS-7.3) build I have one outstanding issue before I > trash it and rebuild to check that my fixes during the build have > worked: xine (i.e. xine-ui) only opens a file if I pass it on the > command line. > > I suspect I'm the one who labelled xine-ui as working with 7.2 and > 7.3. In mitigation, I normally test it while using the command line > to check if ffmpeg is working. Expel me if you wish ;-) Really, I > only keep it around because it sounds better on some classical music > videos - usually I use parole [ or vlc if I'm desperate ]. > > So far, I've gone back to my oldest install on one of my desktops > (August last year, with 0.99.7) and it has the same problem. On 7.3 > I also get an error message 'xine: There is no MRL'. Google has > various 'antique' hits for that, but I couldn't see anything useful > and the message might be a red herring because everything > reasonable that I've passed on the commandline opens ok. For me, > non-reasonable means x264, xine always has problems with those. > > I've found a blog post from late last year which suggests that > Slackware went back to an older version (presumably 0.99.6) because > of this sort of problem - and the poster didn't understand how other > distros (specifically Arch, but fedora also seem to be using it) > don't see the problem. So - is anyone else is using xine ? If so, > is it able to open a file when you right click in the xine window ? > > ĸen Updates:
1. if I build 0.99.6 in /usr/local, with the current instructions, it is able to open a file with 'Open -> File' by right-clicking. I don't feel very thrilled about reverting to an old version. 2. Confirmed that Slackware _are_ using 0.99.6 : http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-14.0/slackware/FILE_LIST 3. I guess that this only affects people who don't use a desktop environment. In a DE, the xdg- progs will pass a program for the selected file (according to its mime details) to the DE. Similarly, if I try to open a video from firefox's file menu (painful, a reminder of why windows with programs scattered everywhere is such a disaster) it works fine, even on LFS-7.3 which otherwise produces the 'There is no MRL' message. On that basis, the current 0.99.7 version is probably ok for the book. None of this explains why the Open -> File functionality is broken in 0.99.7, I guess I'm going to have to file it upstream. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
