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Installed VLC but won't start
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tuxr99

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PostPosted: Tue 25 May 2010, 01:16    Post subject:  Installed VLC but won't start  
It shows up in the menu, but does nothing. Don't know what I'm missing.
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rjbrewer


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PostPosted: Tue 25 May 2010, 01:23    Post subject:  
What version of Puppy?
What version of VLC?

That's a very annoying avatar.
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tuxr99

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PostPosted: Tue 25 May 2010, 01:27    Post subject:  
Puppy 5

vlc 1.0.6

Installed it through puppy's package manager.
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James C


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PostPosted: Tue 25 May 2010, 01:34    Post subject:  
Have you tried running it from the terminal to see any error messages?
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PostPosted: Tue 25 May 2010, 01:36    Post subject:  
I haven't been able to get any other players to work in these new
versions.

I use Ttuuxxxs vlc-0.8.6h-engv5-1 on all my 4xx series installs.
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tuxr99

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PostPosted: Tue 25 May 2010, 01:39    Post subject:  
Damn. I need vlc to watch tv.
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tuxr99

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PostPosted: Tue 25 May 2010, 01:43    Post subject:  
James C wrote:
Have you tried running it from the terminal to see any error messages?


It says do not run as root, and to change permissions for vlc-wrapper.
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PostPosted: Tue 25 May 2010, 02:09    Post subject:  
tuxr99 wrote:
Damn. I need vlc to watch tv.


Interesting; I didn't know it could do that.
I just watched a youtube video on how to use it and was able to
watch a couple shoutcast streams.

Thanks for calming the avatar; I was getting Hypnotized. Laughing
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tuxr99

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PostPosted: Mon 31 May 2010, 13:56    Post subject:  
Anyone know how to get vlc working in puppy 5?
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Billtoo

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PostPosted: Mon 31 May 2010, 14:19    Post subject: Installed VLC but won't start
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tuxr99 wrote:
Anyone know how to get vlc working in puppy 5?


start it in the console, su spot and then start vlc
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Doglover

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PostPosted: Mon 31 May 2010, 16:53    Post subject:  
You probably need these three libraries,

libadns1_1.4-2_i386.deb

libavcodec51_0.svn20080206-18_i386.deb

libavutil49_0.svn20080206-18_i386.deb

Installing from the puppy package manager leaves out these libs, which you can find out by starting vlc from console,

Once I installed these libs from debian.org, vlc worked.
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Doglover

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PostPosted: Mon 31 May 2010, 17:35    Post subject:  
Here are two of those three libs......I made .pets out of the .debs

Could not upload libavcodec to here.
libavutil49_0.svn20080206-18_i386.pet
Description  vlc lib
 pet

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Filename  libavutil49_0.svn20080206-18_i386.pet 
Filesize  73.86 KB 
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libadns1_1.4-2_i386.pet
Description  vlc lib
 pet

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Filename  libadns1_1.4-2_i386.pet 
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tuxr99

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PostPosted: Sun 27 Jun 2010, 21:27    Post subject:  
Installed those 3 packages and no dice. Is there some magic trick to get vlc to work?
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James C


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PostPosted: Sun 27 Jun 2010, 22:01    Post subject:  
tuxr99 wrote:
Anyone know how to get vlc working in puppy 5?


As has already been posted earlier in the thread, in the terminal enter "su spot" (without the quotes) then "vlc" (again without the quotes).
working fine on my install of 5.0.1, see screenie.
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PostPosted: Mon 28 Jun 2010, 05:34    Post subject:  
This variant has been tested in the -=Linux Puppy-4.30=-.

In the beginning i have installed these RPMs:
bless-0.5.2-5.fc7.i386.rpm ; bless-doc-0.5.2-5.fc7.i386.rpm ; gtk-sharp2-2.10.0-4.0.120asp.i386.rpm ; mono-core-1.2.3-5.fc7.i386.rpm .

Then, i have applied someone's recipe from the one internet forum.
Here that is:

Quote:
Step-1: open a hexeditor(for example -=bless=-) if you are using kde desktop then use khex editor.

Step-2: Now open vlc binary

Step-3: Now search for the following string geteuid which is look like this

Code:
ddset.stderr.geteuid._libc_start_man
Since I'm usuing version 0.9.9a-2 so I found it online numbers 1550-1560 .

Step-4: Now press insert button from keyboard and change string into

Code:
ddset.stderr.getppid._libc_start_man
Step-5: click on Save


I have saved the -=vlc=- file into the -=tmp=- folder and then copied this file into that place where the original is.
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