Where are you getting vcr from? The reasons I ask are:
1. The current version of vcr (or at least the version I am using
here, from Debian Sid) is 1.09-11, not the 1.09-03 you are using. (The
corresponding avifile package is libavifile0.7, version 0.7.15.20020816-1 .)
2. My understanding is that the vcr program is no longer being
maintained by its creator, and that his last released version (I don't know
the number) does not work with the most recent versions of avifile. The
symptom changes each time avifile is updated, but at least once it
manifested as a segfault. (Another time it produced inverted images.)
3. So maintained or not, vcr 1.09 needs patching as new versions
of avifile come out (that's why it is up to -11). Its Debian maintainer is
doing this, so the latest Debian-Unstable (Sid) version of vcr works with
the current avifile ... but I'm told that the patches are not being
installed upstream of Debian, so they probably are not making it to SuSE
and other distros.
One other detail ... the "begins to play audio (but no video)" part is
normal operation for vcr, not a symptom of a problem.
So ... if avifile works properly with avirec, the problem is likely to be
in vcr, rather than avifile.
As to your later message about dvr ... I don't use dvr myself, but I wonder
if it too is too old a version to work with the current avifile. The
Debian-Unstable version number for dvr is 2.7.9-2 .
At 10:47 AM 10/15/02 +0000, David and Andy wrote:
>Hello:
>
>I would greatly appreciate anyone's help on this matter - I am quite sure
>now that it is an avifile error, having pretty much exhausted all other
>possibilities (I think?)
>
>For the past two weeks, I have been trying to get VCR to run on my Suse
>7.3 box. I have tried three installations all with the same results -
>VCR-1.05 and VCR-1.08 with Avifile-0.53, and VCR 1.09-3 with Avifile 0.7.0
>with its specific Divx, Lame, Win32 and Xvid plugins installed.
>
>In each case, VCR seems to begin running - finds the proper codecs,
>locates the vcrrc file, finds the channel, begins to play audio (but no
>video), begins to record, then says "entering loop" followed immediately
>by the "segmentation fault".
>
>My thanks to anyone who might have any ideas as to what might be wrong.
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