Installing and Configuring Xine Bharathwaj Muthuswamy October 3 2003 1 Introduction In this document I show you how to configure Xine an all purpose movie player for Linux By all purpose I mean it can play wmv mov avi and mpg files It also supports streaming over the internet via real video Xine can also be used to play audio files real audio MP3 etc It can also play DVDs but for encrypted DVDs you need libdvdcss That is beyond the scope of this document check the Xine documentation These instructions are a supplement to the documentation from the xine homepage http xine sourceforge net These instructions are for EECS 40 students who want to view the lectures in Linux If the following instructions don t work for you don t despair There is help everywhere First read the documentation from Xine s hompage If that doesn t help you solve the problem post to the EECS 40 newsgroup or email me mbharat cory eecs berkeley edu If you do post to the newsgroup or email me PLEASE INCLUDE A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF YOUR ERROR ANY ERROR LOG DUMPS WOULD ALSO BE VERY HELPFUL 2 Installing from RPMs These instructions are specific to the RedHat distribution If you have another distribution you may want to try installing from the source tarball check the next section 1 Download the following files http cambuca ldhs cetuc puc rio br xine for a b and http shrike freshrpms net rpm html id 342 for c a libxine1 1 cvs 031002 i586 rpm b curl 7 10 3 1 i386 rpm c gxine 0 3 3 fr1 i386 rpm a and b are the Xine libraries gxine is the GUI frontend 2 Install the RPMs you may need to become root 1 a bash 2 05 rpm Uvh libxine1 1 cvs 031002 i586 rpm b bash 2 05 rpm Uvh curl 7 10 3 1 i386 rpm c bash 2 05 rpm Uvh gxine 0 3 3 fr1 i386 rpm If you get no error messages then you should be all set Check the Conclusion section for a screenshot If you do get error messages follow the instructions in the Introduction section 3 Installing from source tarballs 1 Download the source tarballs from http xinehq de index php releases a xine lib 0 9 13 tar gz b gxine 0 3 3 tar gz 2 Untar the packages bash 2 05 tar xvzf package name 3 Go into the corresponding source directory configure and make xine lib 1 a home mbharat xine lib 0 9 13 configure b home mbharat xine lib 0 9 13 make c Install the lib package you may need to become root home mbharat xine lib 0 9 13 make install 4 Repeat step 3 for gxine If you get no error messages then you should be all set Check the next section for a screenshot If you do get error messages follow the instructions in the Introduction section 1 You have to configure make and install xine lib BEFORE you install gxine 2 Figure 1 Xine runnin smoothly 4 Conclusion I used both the RPM and the source tarball method for installing Xine on the same computer Both methods worked for me I used gxine you can use anything else for the GUI You don t have to use Xine you can use other players like MPlayer This is just one way of viewing streaming wmv files 3
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