Miro crashing

[Dave Scott]

Rick,
I believe I've already deleted my 7.10 files in order to save disk 
space, so I can't go back and test this for you under the VMWare 
environment. Sorry,
Dave

Rick Berger wrote:
> Months ago on 7.10 I had problems with Miro crashing so I installed the
> latest from their repository,
> 'http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/pculture.org/miro/linux/repositories/ubuntu'
> version 'gusty/'.  It worked great. 
>
> But I've just upgraded to 8.04 and found the current Ubuntu version
> dosen't like my previous version's data files. So I try installing
> Miro's latest package from their repository again, but it requires
> libxine < 1.1.8 not the 8.04's 1.1.11.1 version and will not install. 
>
> Rick Berger
>
> On Sun, 2008-05-25 at 21:56 -0400, steve wrote:
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>> Dave Scott wrote:
>> | Cybe R. Wizard wrote:
>> |> Dave Scott <DaveScott at columbus.rr.com>  said:
>> |>
>> |>> I wonder if the previous writer (Cybe R. Wizard) is running in a vm
>> |>> also? I'm starting it via the Gnome Application  menu and selecting
>> |>> Miro out of the Video and Sound submenu.
>> |>>
>> |>
>> |> No, I've run it natively (each new version) under Ubuntu since it was
>> |> Democracy TV or whatever they called it.  It has never performed as
>> |> well as I would expect for all the hype.  It does work for a while but
>> |> always seems to start crashing randomly.
>> |>
>> |> Cybe R. Wizard
>> |>
>> | I wonder then if Miro runs at all under any other distro?  Also has
>> | anyone been able to catch any log or study what takes it down?
>> | Thanks,
>> | Dave
>> |
>> | --
>> | David E. Scott
>> | DScott91 at Columbus.rr.com
>> |
>>
>> I dont know.  I used it under suse 10.0 as democracy player, use to
>> crash once in a while.  I dont recall any crashes at all from ubuntu 7's
>> through 8.04.  I use it nearly everyday to download video podcasts and
>> such for the 3 hour round trips to work. using ver 1.2.3 here.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> - --
>> Steve Reilly
>>
>> http://reillyblog.com
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David E. Scott
DScott91 at Columbus.rr.com


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