[Bug 283931] Review Request: boswars - Bos Wars is a futuristic real-time strategy game

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Summary: Review Request: boswars - Bos Wars is a futuristic real-time strategy game


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=283931





------- Additional Comments From j.w.r.degoede at hhs.nl  2007-09-10 09:41 EST -------
(In reply to comment #4)
> Created an attachment (id=191591)
 --> (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=191591&action=view) [edit]
> gdb log for boswars 2.4.1-2.fc8 on rawhide
> 
> Almost okay, except for one minor rpmlint and one strange crash
> 
> * file-not-utf8 /usr/share/doc/boswars-2.4.1/guichan-copyright.txt
>   - Please change the encoding to UTF-8.
> 


Will fix before import. How did you find this out? rpmlint used to warn about
issues like thus, but no longer seems to do this, atleast not for me?

> * SIGABRT
>   - Well, when I launch this by "boswars -d /usr/share/bosward"
>     boswars crashes immediately. gdb log attached.
> 
>     What is strange is that when I am watching at some .flv file
>     by xine (so I am listening to some music), boswards can surely
>     be launched. Would you know why?
> 

Judging from the X errorhandler output (and experience) your videocards /
drivers Xvideo support cannot handle the requested movie size / format. I
remember writing ugly workarounds for this catching the Xerror and reverting to
another format, when coding the XVideo support for xmame. Things work when you
have xine running because that is already using your XVideo overlay port and
thus boswars reverts to software video rendering mode.

Depending on how you look at this, this is either an SDL bug (it should catch
the error and revert to soft rendering mode, tell them to go dig in the xmame
XVideo code for the ugliness of this), or a video driver bug as it shouldn't
advertise xvideo capabilities it later turns out it cannot offer.

Either way its not boswars fault. Feel free to file a bug against SDL or your
video driver (I guess both would be best), and put me in the CC.



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