On Wed, 20 May 2009 09:36:33 +0930 Malcolm Caldwell malcolm.caldwell@cdu.edu.au wrote:
Everything is working except: sxfe freezes from time to time. When this happens ESC does not kill it, the only way to keep going is to kill the sxfe process twice (or do kill -9).
I get that a lot too. IME it's much worse when run on a separate PC, it's quite reliable on my HTPC. But it's still enough of a worry that I added a kill feature to boxstar. I think the weakness is in xinelib, I've never found any variant or version of xine to be as reliable as, say mplayer, and they all require kill -9 from time to time. gxine is by far the worst. It's a shame there isn't a standard for the OSD so that you could choose between xine, mplayer, VLC, totem etc.