xbmc crashes whenever I try to play media

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#1

using today’s Packman rpm for 64bit XBMC-9.04-5.pm.9

as soon as I attempt to play any video or audio it crashes with:
E: operation.c: Assertion ‘o’ failed at pulse/operation.c:66,
function pa_operation_unref(). Aborting.

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Suse 11.1 x64, Kde 4.2.1, Opera 10.x weekly

#2

Am having exactly the same problem with x32, not just with videos but also with opening mp3-files - same message (am using KDE 3.5.10)

#3

hallergard wrote:

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> Am having exactly the same problem with x32, not just with videos but
> also with opening mp3-files - same message (am using KDE 3.5.10)
>
>
might wish to follow this thread
http://xbmc.org/forum/showthread.php?t=50721

also found that killing the pulse process allows playback of some video
and audio but then I got a seg fault

also the “disable pulse” option did nothing, might be a compile time
option

Suse 11.1 x64, Kde 4.2.1, Opera 10.x weekly

#4

Just upgraded to XBMC-9.04-13.pm1, which works without problems
Cheers!

#5

I am not sure what video formats your video are. Is there the possibility that your video are not XBMC playable video formats.

The video codec that XBMC supports are MPEG-1, MPEG-2, H.263, MPEG-4 SP and ASP, MPEG-4 AVC (H.264), HuffYUV, Indeo, MJPEG, RealVideo, RMVB, Sorenson, WMV, Cinepak.

If you would like to view your video files in XBMC Media Player, the best way is converting your video to one of its supportable video format listed above, like MPEG-1, or MPEG-2. As for XBMC Video Converter, I recommend Aunsoft Video Converter for Mac which has a perfect performance in encoding various formats of video, like AVI, MP4, MKV, FLV, TiVo to MPEG for XBMC Media Player.

http://www.aunsoft.com/best_way_to_decrypt_rip_convert_blu-ray_media_for_xbmc_win_mac/
Hope my sharing is useful.
Enjoy your video.

#6

No need to reply to a post almost two years old. I’m sure the OP already solved the problem… :slight_smile: