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I'm trying to downgrade vdr-xine from 0.8.2 back to 0.8.0 but get vdr-xine: Client connect failed! in std-out. Can this be further diagnosed? The xine-lib and xine-ui seem to otherwise work just fine, just won't connect to vdr-xine.
This is down to vdr-xine's interface versioning.
You also need the corresponding xine-lib patch or an older xine-lib-1.2 snapshot (reverting src/vdr and include/xine/vdr.h, not the whole tree, to an old enough version should do; looks like changeset c3a5e9ba is what you want).