New XINE DVD

[bigskinnee]

OK not to long ago a new version of xine (the dvd video software) was released. It was supposed to quite an improvement on some previous version (hence the jump from 0.5.3 to 0.9.1) However I can not find packages for it anywhere. apt-get install xine gets me version 0.4.3, and my debian Sid system is just uncapable of compiling it. I must not have the right libraries or something.

So my question is....is anyone out there using this new version? How did you compile it? Are there any hints, tricks, tips, or .deb's you could give me?

And/or what else are you using to play DVDs under Linux.

[bdg1983]

I just compiled and installed 0.9.1 at work today.

At the bottom of the homepage (xine.sourceforge.net) is a email address for 'mailing list for maintainer of deb packages'. It could be what your looking for.

[bigskinnee]

thanks allot
I sent an email to that address and hopefully I will get a reply back soon. But in the meantime I have decided to try to compile it myself. I installed all the libraries that the site said I needed (zlib, pnglib and aalib) and the configure and compile of xine-lib worked. I did a make install and as far as i can tell that installed all the docs, skins, modules, and a file called xine-config in my /usr/local bin.

Now when i try to configure xine-ui I get a message saying that
"
checking for XINE-config... /usr/local/bin/xine-config
checking for XINE-LIB version >= 0.9.0...no
The test program compiled, but did not run. This usually means that the run-time linker is not finding XINE or finding the wrong version of XINE. If it is not finding XINE, you'll neeed to set your LD_LIBRARY_PATH enviroment variable, or edit /etc/ld.so.conf if that is required on your system"

now I have removed the old version of XINE that I had and I edited the /etc/ld.so.conf
and did and export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/bin and the ./configure still fails.

Any Ideas

Thanks again for your help

[bigskinnee]

never mind, I got it figured out

I needed to put /usr/local/lib in the path and not /usr/local/bin

thanks for your help....Im now watching Blood the last Vampire on my Debian Laptop :)

[bdg1983]

Or you can add the path to /etc/ld.so.conf and then rerun ldconfig. Worked for me.