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battleshooter · Joined: 14 May 2008 Posts: 1006 Location: Australia

I'm guessing Edoc's wife's computer was running Puppy 3. I'm running Pups 3 and got the same error message. I used the libs you provided, but as VLC was compiled on Puppy 4, problems arise naturally on 3.

I'm getting this when I open roll my mouse over audio or video:

battleshooter · Joined: 14 May 2008 Posts: 1006 Location: Australia

BTW, has anyone figured out how to enable wma, wmv, etc. files with VLC? Or is this another dysfunctionality using Pup3?

mikeb · Joined: 23 Nov 2006 Posts: 4378

playdayz · Joined: 25 Apr 2008 Posts: 3705

Thank you for this one ttuuxxx. I was looking at media players because beep and audacious (and xmms) made me mad by not playing aac+ streams--mainly I was looking for audio players but this vlc plays video too without extra overhead. It plays aac+ audio streams. What I like best is that the memory usage is *extremely* low, significantly lower than gxine (or xine) and realplayer/helixplayer (which is also a good player imho). It reminds me of my favorite foobar2000 on windows. It is my player of choice now--I like it so much I am trying to compile 0.9.2 (which appears to be the next version after 0.8.6i (???) Do you happen to have the config command line that made it compile--it configures for me but the compile fails with "no utf8 charset conversion on this platform." I think that has to do with NLS but disabling NLS does not fix it. Anyway, it's a good one and thanks again.

mikeb · Joined: 23 Nov 2006 Posts: 4378

http://repository.slacky.eu/slackware-12.1/multimedia/vlc/0.9.1/

ttuuxxx · Posted: Thu 18 Sep 2008, 04:18 Post subject: Re: Its a Good One

vovchik · Joined: 23 Oct 2006 Posts: 1229 Location: Ukraine

Dear Puppians,

I got the slackware 0.9.1 package working as root by using the following little script:

cb88 · Joined: 28 Jan 2007 Posts: 1160 Location: USA

ttuuxxx i believe there are two versions of the ffmpeg.h header so it could be that gcc is trying to use the wrong one....

I know that the ffmpeg in T2 does this and you have to fix it manually at least in the unfixed version from the tarball on ibibliio

also instead of hacking into the code i think you can run it as the user spot but that might cause problems with Xorg

ttuuxxx · Posted: Fri 19 Sep 2008, 03:44 Post subject:

mikeb · Joined: 23 Nov 2006 Posts: 4378

Ok i am trying this

ttuuxxx · Posted: Tue 23 Sep 2008, 08:14 Post subject:

playdayz · Joined: 25 Apr 2008 Posts: 3705

Hello gentlemen, and also mikeb and ttuuxxx,

I have also been investigating vlc too, after ttuuxxx posted it. I found that if you compile 0.8.6 with wxgtk 2.6 instead of 2.8 (2.6.3 is available as a pet) then the skins work. The vlc forums were helpful and they strongly recommend that--I confirmed it and have vlc 0.8.6i with the whole skinpack (a zip file--some of which crash vlc, but most of them work). I just didn't think the wxwidget version looked good, especially with the x1.00 that doesn't quite fit Sad

Most of the skins are not extraordinarily good loooking though either.

Unfortunately I was just trying to get it to compile successfully so I didn't configure it (outside of disabling hal). I am going to try 0.9.2 when I get back to it. People on the forum helped me with one question I had and some older postings and the docs (?) got me on to using wxgtk 2.6--the forum members were very quick, courteous, and helpful. I hope someone beats me to 0.9.2 though Wink

I did get 0.9.2 to configure but it would not finish compiling.

MU posted wxgtk 2.6.3 here
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?search_id=852032718&t=14432

mikeb · Joined: 23 Nov 2006 Posts: 4378

My only stumbling block with 0.9.2 seems to be running as root in puppy....all it actually needs is the vlc binary altering...the rest from the slackware package seems happy...version 0.8.6c worked as is skins and all.

mike

ttuuxxx · Posted: Wed 24 Sep 2008, 17:12 Post subject: Re: Use wxgtk 2.6

mikeb · Joined: 23 Nov 2006 Posts: 4378