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Howto build VLC 1.0.0-git in Ubuntu in less than 5 commands. - Guru

Guru — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 08:21:40 +0200

Hey thanks for the nice article! good blog, goodday…

Howto build VLC 1.0.0-git in Ubuntu in less than 5 commands. - pv-gs150 battery

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Afterwards ‘sudo make install’ should finish fine and VLC will be startable from any directory by just typing ‘vlc’ into the terminal. It will not be necessary anymore to run ./vlc from the build directory, and actually, the bloated 400MB git-directory can be removed. VLC seems to run fine now and also appears to find everything it needs to run and work, as opposed to installing it without those extra options,

Howto build VLC 1.0.0-git in Ubuntu in less than 5 commands. - NareZ

NareZ — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 11:07:15 +0200

great tuto, helped me to solve some issues

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Howto build VLC 1.0.0-git in Ubuntu in less than 5 commands. - Andreas_HB

Andreas_HB — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 15:39:10 +0200

Hello J.B.

It seems you are one of the best involved VLC developers and I have to say, Vidolan especially VLC-Player is a great project.

I thought it is a good Idea to participare in the developement but I have to say I am a Newbie in working within so large software projects.

So what I have done first, was to to try to build VLC following exactly the howto’s on the Videolan site in three ways:

1. Win XP 32 with MinGW/Msys
2. Win XP 32 with Cygwin
3. Ubuntu Linux (9.04)

meanwhile after solving some issues in all I’ll get through bootstrap and configure in all three ways

-> For everyody who get also already stucked at bootstrap: take care of the line endings in Win (CR,LF) and Ix (LF). Some GNU autotools are very sensitive about that, so bootsprap only worked after some corrections I did with Notepad2 (google about) in a few makro files (error message: expecting line feed…).

With Msys I ‘ve got still a warning about AUTOOPTS. I don’t know if this is the right way, but I deleted all .m4 files before doing again the update steps regarding the GNU autotools and loading the VLC project as in the howto. Then I went through without warnings.

But - and there comes my QUESTION: - when I proceed to make, I get so many compiler warnings regarding deprecated definitions of variables, comparison between signed and unsigned and so on. Can ignore the warnings for a stable version ?

Till now I havn’t got a self compiled working VLC like it can be downloaded as install from the Videolan site. I wonder how it was made. Do you or anybody else know?

With MinGW and also Cygwin the make stucks with errors in the last steps (exact message follows) and with Linux I am still working on finding or upgrading all the needed Librarys which are warned about.

I’ll keep you informed or do you have any help to go faster ?

regards
Andreas_HB

Howto build VLC 1.0.0-git in Ubuntu in less than 5 commands. - Facebook

Facebook — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 01:40:39 +0100

Hey, git is terribly slow getting like 1-3kbps average.

Is there an alternative mirror i can download from ?

http://bosdefter.com

Howto build VLC 1.0.0-git in Ubuntu in less than 5 commands. - tech

tech — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 00:53:55 +0200

think he was refering to all the commands. The && actualy separate commands, and are interpreted as "if" statements.
http://yarismak.com

Howto build VLC 1.0.0-git in Ubuntu in less than 5 commands. - ccpiiz

ccpiiz — Sun, 24 May 2009 02:43:18 +0200

in case someone wanted to run all the commands from a script then they will need a semicolon after each command so that the shell runs them sequentially, i.e.

./bootstrap ;
../configure —disable-nls —enable-qt4 ;
make

Howto build VLC 1.0.0-git in Ubuntu in less than 5 commands. - nick

nick — Tue, 19 May 2009 19:37:13 +0200

new requirements seems to be:
sudo apt-get install libxcb-shm0-dev libxcb-xv0-dev libxcb-keysyms0-dev

note those are the corresponding package names for ubuntu 9.04

Howto build VLC 1.0.0-git in Ubuntu in less than 5 commands. - Ricardo

Ricardo — Sat, 16 May 2009 17:04:38 +0200

Sorry,

It's just that on the forum answers tend to take a long time...

Strange, I already have libmodplug-dev installed.

Howto build VLC 1.0.0-git in Ubuntu in less than 5 commands. - JBK

JBK — Sat, 16 May 2009 11:40:36 +0200

@Ricardo: install libmodplug-dev

And give more messages for issues. Issues should be on the forum.

Howto build VLC 1.0.0-git in Ubuntu in less than 5 commands. - Ricardo

Ricardo — Sat, 16 May 2009 06:38:19 +0200

Ok so I just built 0.9.9 on Ubuntu.

Doesn't 0.9.9 support accessing rtmp?

I get an error

no access module matched "rtmp"

Howto build VLC 1.0.0-git in Ubuntu in less than 5 commands. - Ricardo

Ricardo — Sat, 16 May 2009 00:30:33 +0200

Ugh...

I'm having compile errors now. I guess Ubuntu 8.0.4 isn't very happy with this.

Does anyone have pre-built binaries of 0.9.9 for Ubuntu Hardy?

In file included from ../../../include/vlc_common.h:496,
from ../../../modules/demux/mod.c:33:
../../../include/vlc_mtime.h:80: warning: âerrorâ attribute directive ignored
../../../include/vlc_mtime.h:90: warning: âwarningâ attribute directive ignored
../../../include/vlc_mtime.h:108: warning: âerrorâ attribute directive ignored
../../../modules/demux/mod.c: In function âControlâ:
../../../modules/demux/mod.c:321: warning: cast from function call of type âmtime_tâ to non-matching type âdoubleâ
../../../modules/demux/mod.c:370: error: implicit declaration of function âModPlug_NumSamplesâ
../../../modules/demux/mod.c:371: error: implicit declaration of function âModPlug_NumInstrumentsâ
../../../modules/demux/mod.c:372: error: implicit declaration of function âModPlug_NumPatternsâ
../../../modules/demux/mod.c:373: error: implicit declaration of function âModPlug_NumChannelsâ
../../../modules/demux/mod.c:384: error: implicit declaration of function âModPlug_GetMessageâ
../../../modules/demux/mod.c:384: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast
../../../modules/demux/mod.c:410: warning: comparison between signed and unsigned
../../../modules/demux/mod.c:413: error: implicit declaration of function âModPlug_InstrumentNameâ
../../../modules/demux/mod.c:422: warning: comparison between signed and unsigned
../../../modules/demux/mod.c:425: error: implicit declaration of function âModPlug_SampleNameâ
make[5]: *** [libmod_plugin_la-mod.lo] Error 1

Howto build VLC 1.0.0-git in Ubuntu in less than 5 commands. - JBK

JBK — Fri, 15 May 2009 23:32:51 +0200

@ You have trouble because you are compiling 1.1, that has new dependencies... :D

Anyway, yes, --disable-xcb should help you a lot :D

Howto build VLC 1.0.0-git in Ubuntu in less than 5 commands. - Ricardo

Ricardo — Fri, 15 May 2009 23:09:51 +0200

Now I'm having a similar problem with XCB_KEYSYMS_CFLAGS and I don't see which libxcb that applies to...

Howto build VLC 1.0.0-git in Ubuntu in less than 5 commands. - Ricardo

Ricardo — Fri, 15 May 2009 22:58:28 +0200

Thanks JBK.

But in any case, there's no easy way to build vlc without X support?

Howto build VLC 1.0.0-git in Ubuntu in less than 5 commands. - JBK

JBK — Fri, 15 May 2009 22:46:50 +0200

sudo apt-get install libxcb-shm0-dev

Howto build VLC 1.0.0-git in Ubuntu in less than 5 commands. - Ricardo

Ricardo — Fri, 15 May 2009 22:39:03 +0200

Hi,

I find this very useful. I'm trying to build the latest VLC under ubuntu Hardy, but what I really want is vlc-nox as I'm only using it in a server environment.

What's the best way to build vlc for that environment?

Right now I'm getting an error

checking for XCB_SHM... configure: error: Package requirements (xcb-shm) were not met:

No package 'xcb-shm' found

Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
installed software in a non-standard prefix.

Alternatively, you may set the environment variables XCB_SHM_CFLAGS
and XCB_SHM_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
See the pkg-config man page for more details.

Thanks for your help

Howto build VLC 1.0.0-git in Ubuntu in less than 5 commands. - Arite

Arite — Wed, 13 May 2009 22:05:04 +0200

Do you mean http://repo.or.cz/r/vlc.git ?

The "w" version (gitweb) doesn't seem to work with the git clone command.

Howto build VLC 1.0.0-git in Ubuntu in less than 5 commands. - JBK

JBK — Wed, 13 May 2009 10:30:18 +0200

Yes, check on http://repo.or.cz/w/vlc.git

Howto build VLC 1.0.0-git in Ubuntu in less than 5 commands. - boglio

boglio — Wed, 13 May 2009 06:31:55 +0200

Hey, git is terribly slow getting like 1-3kbps average.

Is there an alternative mirror i can download from ?

Howto build VLC 1.0.0-git in Ubuntu in less than 5 commands. - NoXxX

NoXxX — Mon, 04 May 2009 22:11:34 +0200

I'd like to add install commands after these all:
sudo make install && sudo ldconfig

Howto build VLC 1.0.0-git in Ubuntu in less than 5 commands. - ratbag

ratbag — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 04:28:53 +0200

This actually fixed all of the issues I had with VLC 0.9.9a under Jaunty. Sure it took me almost an hour from start to finish, but it's worth it with Netbook Remix.
Separate windows for video and control when everything is maximized gets to be a severe pain.
This worked flawlessly for me, with the use of the revision posted by uux. Thanks!

Howto build VLC 1.0.0-git in Ubuntu in less than 5 commands. - ad

ad — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 19:01:06 +0200

Thanks nanomir, adding the repositories as you advised saved me having to build VLC from scratch.

I got errors the first time I attempted the install , but got round them by removing libvlccore0 in Synaptic and attempting the install again. Must have been some conflict - it work great now

Howto build VLC 1.0.0-git in Ubuntu in less than 5 commands. - nanomir

nanomir — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 01:20:29 +0200

Hi all,
I didn't have much luck compiling (raop.c:211: undefined reference to 'gpg_strerror' - with libgcrypt-dev and libgpg-error-dev present) - and I was doing that, only because I couldn't find a pre-built deb vlc binary for Ubuntu Intrepid...

But I finally found https://launchpad.net/~tim-kornhamm... - just add the intrepid sources.list entry from that page in repositories, and install 1.0.0-git20090225~ppa1~intrepid2 from there.. It works for me

Howto build VLC 1.0.0-git in Ubuntu in less than 5 commands. - black

black — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:49:00 +0200

Hey jb,

Did try "ogl" and other available outputs, all results the same...limited fullscreen window size 800x624.

Jaunty-beta available as of a few days ago, installed it, ran you're command set, and "fullscreen" works out-of-the-box. So, does appear that alpha was deficient in some way. Some issues still remain but of little concern atm, at least I can work w "git" the way it is. Again, thanks for the compile method, beautiful stuff!

Howto build VLC 1.0.0-git in Ubuntu in less than 5 commands. - JBK

JBK — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 13:05:13 +0200

@black: the issue is in your Xserver and in your Xinerama drivers, not in VLC, I am afraid.

Try to use OpenGL output.

Howto build VLC 1.0.0-git in Ubuntu in less than 5 commands. - black

black — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 08:19:56 +0100

Hey jb,

Did the whole process over again today: clean jaunty-a6 install, then ran your command set. After compile finished without error, used only the default qt interface, cli from the build directory.

1) monitor resolution 1360x768 pixels.
2) viceo displays fine in default gui, used several different *.avi files.
3) enabling fullscreen (button or doubleclick on vout), a second window appears, measured 800x624 pixels, no borders, no titlebar, playing video. When buttoned or doubleclicked again, this window quits and video goes to default gui.
4) when mousing over this window in item 3, controller appears at the bottom.center of monitors native resolution display as should, outside of the actual video window, which never fills the monitors display.
5) only related messages that appear, which don't show up as colored text error/warnings:

QPainter::begin: Paint device returned engine == 0, type: 1
QPainter::begin: Paint device returned engine == 0, type: 1
[????????] x11 video output error: X11 request 42.0 failed with error code 8:
BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
QPainter::begin: Paint device returned engine == 0, type: 1

./vlc -vvv

[0x8e96048] qt4 video output debug: Qt4: Fullscreen state changed
[0x8e96048] qt4 video output debug: Qt: Entering Fullscreen
[0x8e96048] qt4 video output debug: Qt4: Fullscreen state changed
[0x8e96048] qt4 video output debug: Qt: Entering Fullscreen
[0x8e96048] xvideo video output debug: entering fullscreen mode
[0x8e96048] xvideo video output debug: X 0/14 Y 0/87
QPainter::begin: Paint device returned engine == 0, type: 1
[0x8e96048] xvideo video output debug: using XFree Xinerama extension
[0x8e96048] xvideo video output debug: requested screen number invalid (-1/1)
[0x8e96048] main video output warning: late picture skipped (8838 > -55)
[0x8e96048] main video output warning: late picture skipped (50546 > -55)
[????????] x11 video output error: X11 request 42.0 failed with error code 8:
BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
QPainter::begin: Paint device returned engine == 0, type: 1

Please don't waste your valuable time on this, I am running an alpa, with release in April, just thought you may've seen this problem before. I got over-excited when the compile went so nicely.

Howto build VLC 1.0.0-git in Ubuntu in less than 5 commands. - JBK

JBK — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 01:29:27 +0100

@black: what is exactly your issue?

Howto build VLC 1.0.0-git in Ubuntu in less than 5 commands. - black

black — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 22:16:33 +0100

Hey jb,

Just discovered this page yesterday, ran the above instructions on a fresh "jaunty-alpha6 install, and to my surprise all went very well. Never compiled vlc for 'nix before and had many failed compiles in "xp", way back when, so figured doing it on 'nix would be a bad joke, but...as "make" took 14 minutes (no errors, pre-make took at least twice that), so, your method cranked and the finished product accepted skins...YEOW!!!

Discovered that the default qt4 and skin interface won't display fullscreen, tho initial embedded displays work fine in both. Fullscreen displays an seperate "X11" (I think) window only, from the default/skins interface, never goes fullscreen, and "zoom" feature appears faulty. Some other issues noted but insignificant at this point.

Have also an "arch-install" running "git" which plays nicely in default but won't take skins...RATS! You can prolly guess am doing this for skin development, and having a working vlc-1.0 version would be sweet, as skins work well in "9.8a", and a leg up for the near future would require "1.0x". Any thoughts/pointers/hints appreciated...

Howto build VLC 1.0.0-git in Ubuntu in less than 5 commands. - JBK

JBK — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 00:24:33 +0100

@uux: done as you wished.

Howto build VLC 1.0.0-git in Ubuntu in less than 5 commands. - uux

uux — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:26:37 +0100

About the failing 'make install':

I compiled VLC-git with the following additional configure options (add the two additional options to the second-to-last command from the HowTo above):

../configure --disable-nls --enable-qt4 --prefix=/opt/vlc --exec-prefix=/usr

Afterwards 'sudo make install' should finish fine and VLC will be startable from any directory by just typing 'vlc' into the terminal. It will not be necessary anymore to run ./vlc from the build directory, and actually, the bloated 400MB git-directory can be removed. VLC seems to run fine now and also appears to find everything it needs to run and work, as opposed to installing it without those extra options, where normally VLC wouldn't even start right afterwards.. Anyway, I didn't do too extensive testing so far...

Also, VLC now starts much faster, almost instantly. When run from the build directory before installing, it always took some seconds for VLC to start up, at least on my machine.

There's still one feature missing, though:
VLC installation will not put a VLC entry to the Gnome application menu. This has to be put there manually, if desired.

I assume that only one of the two additional options might be necessary, but as building takes too damn long, I'm not gonna test that now.

Hope that helps anyone who doesn't like having to keep a ~400MB directory in his $HOME just to be able to run the latest version of VLC.

Have a nice Sunday.
uux

PS: Oh, one thing I forgot to mention : before installing, I removed any other VLC version from the system. I'm not sure if this is necessary, but well, just in case.

Howto build VLC 1.0.0-git in Ubuntu in less than 5 commands. - JBK

JBK — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 12:12:19 +0100

You don't need to install VLC for it to work. Make it work from the builddir, with ./vlc

Howto build VLC 1.0.0-git in Ubuntu in less than 5 commands. - pdonner

pdonner — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 04:53:41 +0100

Yeah ditto on the make install comment. My current (8.10 Ubuntu) vlc version stays at 0.94 while in the build/bin dir the new 1.00 vls exists. Make install does a lot of stuff but doesn't install the new version.

Howto build VLC 1.0.0-git in Ubuntu in less than 5 commands. - Juliano

Juliano — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 16:36:50 +0100

how should i get 0.9.8a version of vlc from git repository?

Howto build VLC 1.0.0-git in Ubuntu in less than 5 commands. - pd

pd — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 03:59:20 +0100

Is there an equivalent "make install" for this. I have tried but it seems to be broken.

Thanks.

Howto build VLC 1.0.0-git in Ubuntu in less than 5 commands. - JBK

JBK — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 08:56:55 +0100

@all: thanks, we all know you are kind of right, but this was more to be funny than to be accurate :D

@uux: good catch, thanks

@tqft: this howto is way more simple than the usual one (with x264) but is enough for most people. But if you want latest FFmpeg and latest x264, follow the old posts.

Howto build VLC 1.0.0-git in Ubuntu in less than 5 commands. - denver

denver — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 17:32:33 +0100

i think he was refering to all the commands. The && actualy separate commands, and are interpreted as "if" statements.

Basically in:

mkdir build && cd build && ../configure --disable-nls --enable-qt4

you are saying:

if make build is successfull, then execute:

cd build

After that, if cd build is successfull, execute:

../configure

and so on. So 16aR was actualy right :P

Howto build VLC 1.0.0-git in Ubuntu in less than 5 commands. - uux

uux — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 00:25:59 +0100

Hi JBK,

thank you very much for this HowTo! It was very helpful.

One thing, though:
The first command seems to need another sudo for the second part of the command, like this:

sudo apt-get build-dep vlc && apt-get install libtool build-essential automake1.10 git-core

Otherwise, it wouldn't install, at least it didn't for me.

Regards and thanks again
uux

Howto build VLC 1.0.0-git in Ubuntu in less than 5 commands. - tqft

tqft — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 23:38:34 +0100

When did the build instruction change?

Particularly the use of the build dir? But no matter I finally seem to have recovered (after deleting everything thinking I had screwed the git repo - twice).

x264 question: the prev build instructions on your blog
http://www.jbkempf.com/blog/post/20...
and the current wiki instructions
http://wiki.videolan.org/Git#Gettin...
$ git clone git://git.videolan.org/x264.git
Where should the x264 repo end up? as a separate dir or in the same folder as vlc?
I haven't done the x264 bit yet - am I going to miss much?

Thanks

Howto build VLC 1.0.0-git in Ubuntu in less than 5 commands. - JBK

JBK — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 12:34:18 +0100

No, there are 5 commands! :D

Bootstrap is necessary to create the configure.

Howto build VLC 1.0.0-git in Ubuntu in less than 5 commands. - 16aR

16aR — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 15:10:43 +0100

Liar
you need exactly 8 commands :p

I got a question though What is the use of bootstrap ?

Build vlc under a fresh sid - Dros

Dros — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 03:20:33 -0700

The option enable-pp is now unknown because it has been renamed, you must use enable-postproc

just FYI

Build vlc under a fresh sid - avisx

avisx — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 20:20:49 -0700

please, remove the other message, and read this:

http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic...

sorry and thanks :P

Build vlc under a fresh sid - avisx

avisx — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:47:28 -0700

hi!!

i follow the howto step by step, but when i compile send this error:

gcc -std=gnu99 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -I../../src -DSYS_LINUX -I../../include -I../include -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D__USE_UNIX98 -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -D_REENTRANT -D_THREAD_SAFE -DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/share/locale\" -DPLUGIN_PATH=\"/usr/lib/vlc\" -DDEBUG -D__LIBVLC__ -I../src/misc -g -O2 -ffast-math -funroll-loops -mtune=pentium2 -DDBUS_API_SUBJECT_TO_CHANGE -I/usr/include/hal -I/usr/include/dbus-1.0 -I/usr/lib/dbus-1.0/include -I/usr/include/dbus-1.0 -I/usr/lib/dbus-1.0/include -fvisibility=hidden -DDATA_PATH=\"/usr/share/vlc\" -Wall -Wextra -Wsign-compare -Wundef -Wpointer-arith -Wbad-function-cast -Wcast-align -Wwrite-strings -Wmissing-prototypes -Wvolatile-register-var -MT text/libvlc_la-iso_lang.lo -MD -MP -MF text/.deps/libvlc_la-iso_lang.Tpo -c ../../src/text/iso_lang.c -fPIC -DPIC -o text/.libs/libvlc_la-iso_lang.o
In file included from ../../include/vlc_common.h:1062,
from ../../include/vlc/vlc.h:155,
from ../../src/text/iso_lang.c:34:
../../include/vlc_threads_funcs.h:550: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before 'pthread_spinlock_t'
../../include/vlc_threads_funcs.h: In function 'vlc_spin_init':
../../include/vlc_threads_funcs.h:558: warning: implicit declaration of function 'pthread_spin_init'
../../include/vlc_threads_funcs.h:558: error: 'vlc_spinlock_t' has no member named 'spin'
../../include/vlc_threads_funcs.h: In function 'vlc_spin_lock':
../../include/vlc_threads_funcs.h:566: warning: implicit declaration of function 'pthread_spin_lock'
../../include/vlc_threads_funcs.h:566: error: 'vlc_spinlock_t' has no member named 'spin'
../../include/vlc_threads_funcs.h: In function 'vlc_spin_unlock':
../../include/vlc_threads_funcs.h:575: warning: implicit declaration of function 'pthread_spin_unlock'
../../include/vlc_threads_funcs.h:575: error: 'vlc_spinlock_t' has no member named 'spin'
../../include/vlc_threads_funcs.h: In function 'vlc_spin_destroy':
../../include/vlc_threads_funcs.h:584: warning: implicit declaration of function 'pthread_spin_destroy'
../../include/vlc_threads_funcs.h:584: error: 'vlc_spinlock_t' has no member named 'spin'
make[3]: *** [text/libvlc_la-iso_lang.lo] Error 1
make[3]: se sale del directorio `/usr/local/src/vlc-trunk/linux/src'
make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
make[2]: se sale del directorio `/usr/local/src/vlc-trunk/linux/src'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: se sale del directorio `/usr/local/src/vlc-trunk/linux'
make: *** [all] Error 2

please, help me!!

Build vlc under a fresh sid - juju

juju — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:30:51 +0100

ce serait possible de nous indiquer comment combiler avec le support AMR stp ? j'aimerai streamer du 3GP merci

Bored with Debian - x264 patents - SirCommy

SirCommy — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 18:01:38 +0100

There's nothing to wait, the answer is obvious for France. It's upon EU

Build vlc under a fresh sid - meerab

meerab — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 13:09:51 +0100

i like it

Build vlc under a fresh sid - Juju

Juju — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 14:36:26 +0100

Il faut aussi faire
apt-get install automake libtool cvs
pour ceux comme moi qui n'ont pas l'habitude de compiler.

Merci en tous cas pour le résumé ca faisait un moment que je cherchais

Build vlc under a fresh sid - aLtgLasS

aLtgLasS — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 10:21:44 +0100

Very good guide although I had to install further packages about which bootstrap complained.
Under Ubuntu one must also not use libportaudio-dev but rather portaudio19-dev otherwise make fails on portaudio.c

Build vlc under a fresh sid - rayabaa

rayabaa — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 09:03:42 +0200

HI,
I am sorry that I am asking question except nice comment.

When I install VLC, I followed your tip.
But , I could not install VLC with x264, .... have you any idea following case.

-------

1. I could not compile with x264 encoder. Without to include x264 tree, I can compile.
I did configure with "enable-x264" and "--with-x264-tree" option.
I compiled current version of x264 in the "extras" of vlc main folder.
But I had following error messega:

==========
./configure --enable-snapshot --enable-debug --enable-dbus-control --enable-shared --enable-lirc --with-x509-ca-bundle=/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt --with-live555-tree=/usr/lib/live --with-ffmpeg-tree=../extras/ffmpeg --enable-taglib --enable-v4l --enable-cddax --enable-dvb --enable-vcdx --enable-realrtsp --enable-svg --enable-dvdread --enable-dv --enable-theora --enable-faad --enable-twolame --enable-real --enable-flac --enable-tremor --with-ffmpeg-mp3lame --with-faac --enable-ncurses --enable-aa --enable-caca --enable-esd --enable-portaudio --enable-jack --enable-xosd --enable-galaktos --enable-goom --enable-ggi --disable-cddax --disable-vcdx --disable-dirac --disable-xvmc --enable-pvr --enable-loader --enable-python-bindings --enable-audioscrobbler --enable-libcddb --enable-libcdio --enable-opencv --enable-nls --disable-notify --with-libmpeg2-tree=../extras/mpeg2dec-0.4.1 --disable-speex --disable-lua --disable-fluidsynth --disable-gnutls --disable-avahi-client --enable-old-dbus --with-included-gettext --enable-skins2 --enable-wxwidgets --enable-x264 --with-x264-tree=../extras/x264/

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checking png.h presence... yes
checking for png.h... yes
checking for png_set_rows in -lpng... yes
checking for x264.h in /usr/local/src/vlc-trunk/extras/x264... yes
checking for x264_encoder_open in -lx264... no
configure: error: the specified tree hasn't been compiled

I found follwoing error message from config.log :

configure:58065: checking for x264.h in /usr/local/src/vlc-trunk/extras/x264
configure:58069: result: yes
configure:58084: checking for x264_encoder_open in -lx264
configure:58114: gcc -std=gnu99 -o conftest -Wall -Wextra -Wno-unused-parameter -Wsign-compare -Wundef -Wpointer-arith -Wbad-function-cast -Wcast-align -Wwrite-strings -Wmissing-prototypes -DSYS_LINUX -lpthread conftest.c -lx264 >&5
conftest.c:40:1: warning: "_GNU_SOURCE" redefined
conftest.c:10:1: warning: this is the location of the previous definition
/usr/local/lib/libx264.a(encoder.o)(.text+0xd95): In function `x264_encoder_open':
: undefined reference to `pow'
/usr/local/lib/libx264.a(encoder.o)(.text+0xeda): In function `x264_encoder_open':
: undefined reference to `pow'
/usr/local/lib/libx264.a(encoder.o)(.text+0xfb8): In function `x264_encoder_open':
: undefined reference to `pow'
/usr/local/lib/libx264.a(encoder.o)(.text+0x1026): In function `x264_encoder_open':
: undefined reference to `pow'
/usr/local/lib/libx264.a(ratecontrol.o)(.text+0x5e): In function `qscale2bits':
: undefined reference to `pow'
/usr/local/lib/libx264.a(ratecontrol.o)(.text+0x14d): more undefined references to `pow' follow
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

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2. I got warning message on "avahi-client". I did "--disable-avahi-client", but I got still warning message.
What is the avahi-client ? how can I disable it in my confugure.

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checking for avahi-client >= 0.3... Package avahi-client was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `avahi-client.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'avahi-client' found
configure: WARNING: avahi-client library not found
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http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic...

Bored with Debian - x264 patents - JBK

JBK — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 09:28:25 +0200

@Metalhead: Well, in France too, they are forbidden. The new president is pro-patents but said he will follow European Union discussions. So, let's wait and see.

Bored with Debian - x264 patents - MetalheadGautham

MetalheadGautham — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 18:13:30 +0200

hey JBK, I think the only reason we see x264 removed is because it is patented in the US. where I am software patents have been rejected in the parliment... how is it in France? how is the new president???

Bored with Debian - x264 patents - James

James — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 22:14:56 +0200

For anyone interested in researching the patents involved, see http://www.FreePatentsOnline.com.

Bored with Debian - x264 patents - miksuh

miksuh — Sun, 27 May 2007 11:37:47 +0200

As I said earlier you can always use debian-multimedia.org repository. Many, if not most, Debian desktop users use that repository anyway. You could say that debian-multimedia.org is THE unofficially official multimedia repository for the Debian.

Bored with Debian - x264 patents - JBK

JBK — Sun, 27 May 2007 01:31:23 +0200

@miksuh:

I don't think you really get my point. Everything in the multimedia field is patented with stupid patents in the U.S.

I we start like that, we can remove everything from debian and so on.

I am quite sure there is a patent on streaming.

Bored with Debian - x264 patents - miksuh

miksuh — Sat, 26 May 2007 21:42:25 +0200

"Well, you are right, but it is worse... GStreamer is architectured to be able to put external codecs... and proprietary ones..."

So what? Those are external codecs so it's not gstreamer problem. It's not a problem at all if you don't distribute codecs which have patent problems.

Bored with Debian - x264 patents - miksuh

miksuh — Sat, 26 May 2007 21:23:11 +0200

I don't really understand why this is so big problem for you. I'm sure x264 will be available in the debian-multimedia.org if it is not available in official repository.

Bored with Debian - x264 patents - markit

markit — Sat, 26 May 2007 14:25:41 +0200

Completely agree. You can't have nothing more than "hello world" that is patent-free. Btw, also "ping" is patented if you use to see if a pc is still alive.
"non patented codecs" is almost useless, since one needs codecs to see multimedia content "as provided". Having a ogg codec to see the last DVD I bought is useless.
Only 2 actions to take:
a) fight software patents and lobby to make them illegal in the unfortunate country where are accepted
b) act like they don't exist at all when coding/packaging.

Bored with Debian - x264 patents - JBK

JBK — Fri, 25 May 2007 23:07:51 +0200

Well, you are right, but it is worse... GStreamer is architectured to be able to put external codecs... and proprietary ones...

Bored with Debian - x264 patents - Bilboed

Bilboed — Fri, 25 May 2007 18:50:50 +0200

In fact... you can remove totem, gstreamer and any gstreamer-based application from that list. GStreamer was designed so that these kind of patent issues don't forbid applications from using the other, non-patented, codecs.

Migration time - Ubuntu-debian - JBK

JBK — Mon, 14 May 2007 09:42:57 +0200

@Pierre:

As you might have seen, that was not my first action
Since, we are in May, and Spring has begun on March, 21st.

I guess my first Spring's action was "skiing in T-shirt" this year.

Migration time - Ubuntu-debian - Pierre

Pierre — Mon, 14 May 2007 02:31:41 +0200

Spring has begun and your first action is to migrate your computer. Weird!
Spring doesn't have the same effect on me but you're right. It's easier to update a few systems than to follow mother-nature instruction.