The xine Video Player HOWTO

Rich Wareham, <richwareham@users.sourceforge.net>

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. Getting output from xine onto a TV

8. Platform Specific Notes and Requirements

• 8.1 FreeBSD

9. Increasing Performance

• 9.1 Hardware
• 9.2 Set up and use raw devices for dvd access
• 9.3 The XVideo extension
• 9.4 MTRR (Linux)
• 9.5 Optimising drive access

10. Troubleshooting

• 10.1 I see "tvmode: not connected to nvtvd for switching". What's that ?
• 10.2 xine keeps complaining about not being able to connect to a socket
• 10.3 I use a kernel between 2.4.10 and 2.4.15 inclusive and xine and am getting strange errors
• 10.4 I don't get a DVD button in xine
• 10.5 All seems good but halfway through a DVD the playback stops or loops
• 10.6 I get this message: demux error! 00 00 00 (should be 0x000001)
• 10.7 I get lots of ``200 frames delivered, 200 frames skipped, 0 frames discarded''
• 10.8 When I play a particular file/stream, xine shows some pictures but there's no audio
• 10.9 Using Linux, I get an error which contains status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
• 10.10 I am having trouble playing a SVCD
• 10.11 xine drops a lot of frames
• 10.12 Fullscreen doesn't work
• 10.13 The AC3 via S/PDIF does not work with my soundcard
• 10.14 Where and how do I get the latest development version?
• 10.15 How do I use the dvd plugin and/or dvd:// MRL?
• 10.16 I get the message unable to open dvd drive (/dev/dvd) or
• 10.17 How do I play streams from STDIN?
• 10.18 How do I change the skin?
• 10.19 How can I change color/brightness/contrast?
• 10.20 Some parts of my X Desktop get transparent when xine plays the video!
• 10.21 I get no sound, but ``audio driver 'oss' failed, using null driver instead.''
• 10.22 After running xine several times it fail's to allocated shared memory
• 10.23 I have problems when using xine on FreeBSD
• 10.24 I think I am pronouncing xine wrong
• 10.25 I think I found a bug!

11. Contributing to xine

12. Further resources

• 12.1 DVD information
• 12.2 Developer resources