(old)Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

updated to 1.8, see main post...

if anyone is having any issues with this, I'd really appreciate knowing now..

I'll soon be including it in a puplet... I want to make sure it's working for everyone else...

will try and report if I find any issues, btw I included version 1.5 in kdpup don't see any problems so far.

dejan555 wrote:will try and report if I find any issues, btw I included version 1.5 in kdpup don't see any problems so far.

Thanks, it will be greatly appreciated... if you find a problem, that's great..

But don't look too hard - if 1.5 is working fine, I think 1.8 should be fine too (I hope)..

I have installed it and works really fine in puppy 5.01
thanks

nlucasm wrote:I have installed it and works really fine in puppy 5.01
thanks

Good.. Glad to hear it..

VLC-GTK updated to 1.9 (see main post)

2.0 is out... all GUI bugs fixed now I think

i get error from oss:
can not open default aduio device dsp
is it possible to set audio to alsa

puppy 4.3.1( boxpuppeee)

magerlab wrote:i get error from oss:
can not open default aduio device dsp
is it possible to set audio to alsa

puppy 4.3.1( boxpuppeee)

I'm not sure what this error means.. I never had it..

It cannot be an error with the GUI itself, so it must be something to do with the VLC package you are using.. Or with the sound config of your setup.

updated to vlc-gtk 2.1

2.1 has a major improvement - on screen video playback controls with xdotool
...also other features added, and a few bugfixes and updates...

see main post.

maybe you could upload my vlc-0.8.6h-commandline.pet some place else because Eric shutdown puppylinux.ca and the link for it in your first post is now dead.
ttuuxxx

ttuuxxx wrote:maybe you could upload my vlc-0.8.6h-commandline.pet some place else because Eric shutdown puppylinux.ca and the link for it in your first post is now dead.
ttuuxxx

Thanks.. Added new links to main post...
All of these packages and more can be found at ppm.scottjarvis.com

updated to 2.2, see main post, mainly bugfixes,

better on screen playback controls
better performance
more reliability...

Just installed on a SMP version of Puppy 4.2

Complains of missing libxdo.so.2 and doesn't run.

-Roy

Roy wrote:Just installed on a SMP version of Puppy 4.2

Complains of missing libxdo.so.2 and doesn't run.

-Roy

whoops.... i'll upload a new one shortly...

also.. if anyone is interested..

i tried vlc-gtk with the dpup vlc pet file on lupq and the on screen gui didnt work well at all..

the on screen controls are probably only gonna work on 4.2, if at all!
(unless someone who is good with bash/xdotool can do it...)

I have fixed the 2.2 package, and re-uploaded

- I added some required xdotool libs
- I also updated the timing of the on screen controls
- and it will now make a symlink for gtkdialog if not found

If anyone uses this, and it does or doesn't work, I'd like to know which vlc package and puppy version you're using (please)!

Great news, I have compiled the latest VLC, version 1.1.5, for Wary 5.0. It handles all the audio/video formats including WebM. See my blog announcement:

http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=02070

My 'vlc_nogui' PET is only 1.7MB, and I was able to get vlc-gtk to work with it, however as stated in my blog, I had to edit the /usr/bin/gtk-vlc script.

...note, I took out the "rxvt -e", don't understand why that is there. I added "-I dummy" to the vlc commandline -- but perhaps the vlc configuration file could be set to "dummy" interface as default.

There is one remaining problem, the on-screen controls do not work. I think that I need help with that.

Note, my vlc_nogui package might even work in Puppy 4.x, as VLC is written in C (not C++ which could cause trouble) and Wary uses the same Xorg 7.3 version as does Puppy 4.x. Oh, but Puppy 4.x does not have all the dependencies -- Wary has many more multimedia packages. So, it might be made to run, after installing all the deps. Maybe.

Anyway, Wary is supposed to be the successor to Puppy 4.x

BarryK wrote: ...note, I took out the "rxvt -e", don't understand why that is there. I added "-I dummy" to the vlc commandline -- but perhaps the vlc configuration file could be set to "dummy" interface as default.

There is one remaining problem, the on-screen controls do not work. I think that I need help with that.

I think sc0tman brings up console just because of controls problem - vlc console interface has some basic controls.
Keyboard shortcuts should work ok though for video - Ctrl + arrows control volume and jumping back and forth some seconds, also there are much more shortcuts for switching subtitles and chapters which I don't remember now.

dummy interface on the other hand doesn't have any controls I think and can be started with cvlc wrapper too.

dejan555 wrote:

BarryK wrote: ...note, I took out the "rxvt -e", don't understand why that is there. I added "-I dummy" to the vlc commandline -- but perhaps the vlc configuration file could be set to "dummy" interface as default.

There is one remaining problem, the on-screen controls do not work. I think that I need help with that.

I think sc0tman brings up console just because of controls problem - vlc console interface has some basic controls.
Keyboard shortcuts should work ok though for video - Ctrl + arrows control volume and jumping back and forth some seconds, also there are much more shortcuts for switching subtitles and chapters which I don't remember now.

dummy interface on the other hand doesn't have any controls I think and can be started with cvlc wrapper too.

I added the 'rxvt -e' because on Puppy 4.2 (TurboPup/PuppyArcade/Puplite) vlc will not load up or play anything otherwise.. (The code came from dejan555, but didn't work on 4.2 until I added the 'rxvt -e' bit.... maybe I missed a trick, not sure..)

It also seems to be a good idea for music playback, until I make some on screen controls specific to music file playback ( I didn't do that, as I don't see many people wanting vlc-gtk for music playback..)

I wish I could do without the popup rxvt window though - at least for video playback!
...I hate the extra rxvt window popping up, but it is a necessity on my all 4.2s!

I was unable to make the on screen controls work with version later than 0.8.6, but I will have another go with this one.

Thanks Barry.

sc0ttman wrote: I added the 'rxvt -e' because on Puppy 4.2 (TurboPup/PuppyArcade/Puplite) vlc will not load up or play anything otherwise..

Oh I don't remember you had to use it.

The code came from dejan555

That lousy Xdialog window with only few options
Yours is much more advanced.

EDIT:Oh lol I didn't realize you have controls bar since ver. 2.1 till I looked at new screenshot.