Miro crashing

[James Takac]

Hi Guys

On Wednesday 28 May 2008 10:59:12 Dave Scott wrote:
> 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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Maybe that's what I'm experiencing with xmms as well? under 8.04 it has 
unresolvable dependencies and wont install

James