Xine broke mplayer?

[Ben Steeves]

On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 04:10, David L Norris wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 01:18, Ben Steeves wrote:
> > Does anyone with deeper experience with these apps have any clue as to
> > what's going on?
> 
> Not really but mplayer very well may.  Run it from a terminal and see if
> its outputting any errors.  mplayer prints reams of debugging
> information.
> 
> mplayer will use XINE, XMMS, and other CODEC plugins.  Also, most
> players which support AVI will load Windows CODEC DLLs from
> /usr/lib/win32.  So, there are several ways they can interact.

There were no error messages in either Mplayer or Xine's output, and the
problem went away after restarting the X server.  But it's still very,
very weird. :-/

Ben
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