xine_artsplugin - again :-/

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El Lunes, 27 de Enero de 2003 20:15, Marten Klencke escribió:
> Hi!
>
> I am just wondering, am I the only one (and my friends :-) experiencing
> severe problems with xine_artsplugin and thumbnails? In addition to some
> experiencing weird crashes of konqueror causing total non-responsiveness,
> which have been mentioned here before, I tried to see what happens when I
> start artsd from within gdb.
>
> Here's what happens:
>
> - First of all, the thumbnail creation is slooow. It takes a very long time
> before all the messages from xine about finding its plugins have come by.
> However, this is (I think) only when first entering a directory with video
> files.
>
> - Then, a couple of video files get processed correctly and the messages
> from xine on the console seem fine (about finding frames etc)
>
> However, sometimes suddenly everything stops and artsd does nothing
> anymore. No more files are processed for thumbnail creation. One time artsd
> crashed with a SIGPIPE saying there's something wrong with write_ in libc.
>
> After waiting for a long time until artsd didn't do anything anymore, I did
> a "ps aux|grep artsd|wc -l" and it came up with 198 entries!
>
>
> It seems to me that xine_artsplugin can't really be considered stable.
>
> I would love to help out and fix some of these issues (because I think
> they're not just annoyances, they can hang your whole multimedia system,
> even till after a relogin!) if someone shows me the way. Unfortunately, I
> have no experience coding with xine, arts or video processing. But I can
> learn :)
>
>
> So, is there someone who can elaborate on these issues or someone who is
> experiencing them too? For now, I am turning off xine_artsplugin and hope
> that distributors will too. It's a shame, because the concept of noatun et
> al using xine is great!
>
> Marten Klencke
>
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	Not, you're not the only. It's a real situation, I moved to Mplayer.

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