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Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Hardy (8.04) - dreamnid

dreamnid — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 13:02:09 -0700

For those having problems with yasm not being detected, when running the configure w/ the x264: refer to http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread....

Essentially, the yasm package in the repo is too old, so you have to compile your own.

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Hardy (8.04) - worthless

worthless — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 04:37:29 -0700

Hi,

Thank you for a good howto. I had some exciting problems to work around I thought I'd share.

Ocram: yasm didn't work for me either, so I removed it and installed nasm instead -- worked fine.

apt-get build-dep vlc did not work for me because of a dependency bug on libsound2-dev vs. libsound2 (and it gives the extremely descriptive error message: "Build-dependencies for vlc could not be satisfied."). If you get this problem "apt-cache showsrc vlc" will show you the actual dependencies, and trying them showed that libsound2-dev required a specific (slightly older) version of libsound2, so i downgraded to that one with apt-get install libsound2=<version>.

The version of liveMedia in Ubuntu was too old, had to get a new one from www.live555.com/liveMedia , compile it in extras and supply configure with --with-live555-tree=../extras/live

The version of speex in Ubuntu was too old, had to get a new one from www.speex.org , compile it in extras and supply configure with --with-speex-tree=../extras/live

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Hardy (8.04) - Hackeron

Hackeron — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:13:34 -0700

I'm getting:

/usr/bin/ld: /usr/local/lib/libx264.a(cabac-a.o): relocation R_X86_64_32 against `x264_cabac_range_lps' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
/usr/local/lib/libx264.a: could not read symbols: Bad value
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[5]: *** [libx264_plugin.la] Error 1
make[5]: Leaving directory `/root/fusecctv-dist/dist/multimedia/vlc/build/modules/codec'
make[4]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory `/root/fusecctv-dist/dist/multimedia/vlc/build/modules/codec'
make[3]: *** [all] Error 2
make[3]: Leaving directory `/root/fusecctv-dist/dist/multimedia/vlc/build/modules/codec'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/fusecctv-dist/dist/multimedia/vlc/build/modules'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/fusecctv-dist/dist/multimedia/vlc/build'
make: *** [all] Error 2

I tried recompiling x264 with -fPIC -- didn't help

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Hardy (8.04) - JBK

JBK — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:43:00 -0700

Giulia, mail me in private the messages. :D

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Hardy (8.04) - giulia

giulia — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:33:35 -0700

Hi
vlc was working for me in ubuntu 7. Since I updated to 8 it plays the MOV files but with no sound. I followed your instructions and everything worked fine, but still no sound... Any idea ? thanks !
giulia

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Hardy (8.04) - Hector

Hector — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:03:16 -0700

Need to add extra apt source?
Why i failed to fetch dependences?
hector@hector-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get build-dep vlc
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Build-dependencies for vlc could not be satisfied.

Here is my apt list:
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net intrepid Release.gpg
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net intrepid/main Translation-en_US
Hit http://playonlinux.botux.net hardy Release.gpg
Ign http://playonlinux.botux.net hardy/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net hardy Release.gpg
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net hardy/main Translation-en_US
Get:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net intrepid Release [27.6kB]
Hit http://playonlinux.botux.net hardy Release
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy Release.gpg
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Translation-en_US
Get:2 http://ppa.launchpad.net hardy Release [27.6kB]
Ign http://playonlinux.botux.net hardy/main Packages
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy/restricted Translation-en_US
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy/universe Translation-en_US
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy/multiverse Translation-en_US
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-security Release.gpg
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-security/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-security/restricted Translation-en_US
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-security/universe Translation-en_US
Hit http://packages.medibuntu.org hardy Release.gpg
Ign http://packages.medibuntu.org hardy/free Translation-en_US
Hit http://playonlinux.botux.net hardy/main Packages
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-security/multiverse Translation-en_US
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates Release.gpg
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/restricted Translation-en_US
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/universe Translation-en_US
Ign http://packages.medibuntu.org hardy/non-free Translation-en_US
Hit http://packages.medibuntu.org hardy Release
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/multiverse Translation-en_US
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-proposed Release.gpg
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-proposed/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-proposed/restricted Translation-en_US
Hit http://packages.medibuntu.org hardy/free Packages
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-proposed/universe Translation-en_US
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-proposed/multiverse Translation-en_US
Get:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-backports Release.gpg [189B]
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-backports/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-backports/restricted Translation-en_US
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-backports/universe Translation-en_US
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-backports/multiverse Translation-en_US
Hit http://packages.medibuntu.org hardy/non-free Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy Release
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-security Release
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net intrepid/main Packages
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net intrepid/main Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates Release
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-proposed Release
Get:4 http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-backports Release [44.0kB]
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net hardy/main Packages
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net hardy/main Sources
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net intrepid/main Packages
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net intrepid/main Sources
Get:5 http://ppa.launchpad.net hardy/main Packages [6591B]
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy/restricted Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy/universe Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy/multiverse Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy/restricted Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy/universe Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy/multiverse Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-security/main Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-security/restricted Packages
Get:6 http://ppa.launchpad.net hardy/main Sources [1630B]
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-security/universe Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-security/multiverse Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-security/main Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-security/restricted Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-security/universe Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-security/multiverse Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/main Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/restricted Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/universe Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/multiverse Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/main Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/restricted Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/universe Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/multiverse Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-proposed/main Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-proposed/restricted Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-proposed/universe Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-proposed/multiverse Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-proposed/main Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-proposed/restricted Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-proposed/universe Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-proposed/multiverse Sources
Get:7 http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-backports/main Packages [53.0kB]
Get:8 http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-backports/restricted Packages [14B]
Get:9 http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-backports/universe Packages [21.2kB]
Get:10 http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-backports/multiverse Packages [3012B]
Get:11 http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-backports/main Sources [7804B]
Get:12 http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-backports/restricted Sources [14B]
Get:13 http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-backports/universe Sources [6515B]
Get:14 http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-backports/multiverse Sources [1237B]

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Hardy (8.04) - Ocram

Ocram — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 14:05:00 -0700

I have problems with compiling the x264.

# cd extras/
# git clone git://git.videolan.org/x264.git
Initialized empty Git repository in /afs1/uploads/vlc/extras/x264/.git/
remote: Generating pack...
remote: Done counting 6158 objects.
remote: Deltifying 6158 objects...
remote: 100% (6158/6158) done
remote: Total 6158 (delta 4870), reused 0 (delta 0)
Receiving objects: 100% (6158/6158), 1.51 MiB | 636 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (4870/4870), done.
# cd x264/

# make
Makefile:3: config.mak: No such file or directory
./configure
No suitable assembler found. Install 'yasm' to get MMX/SSE optimized code.
If you really want to compile without asm, configure with --disable-asm.
make: *** [config.mak] Error 1

I have yasm installed:

type yasm
yasm is a tracked alias for /usr/bin/yasm

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Hardy (8.04) - aef110

aef110 — Tue, 27 May 2008 13:52:30 -0700

Thanks; I tried again and it compiled successfully this time!

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Hardy (8.04) - JBK

JBK — Sun, 25 May 2008 20:03:13 -0700

Try to reconfigure and make clean.

This shouldn't happen in GIt HEAD.

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Hardy (8.04) - aef110

aef110 — Sat, 24 May 2008 06:19:17 -0700

After much trial and error I had to copy the ffmpeg folder from my 7.10 install to 8.04. Then I was able to compile vlc.

However, 'make' returns the following output:

/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lvlccore
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
libtool: install: error: relink `libvlc.la' with the above command before installing it
make[4]: *** [install-libLTLIBRARIES] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/albert/vlc/build/src'
make[3]: *** [install-am] Error 2
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/albert/vlc/build/src'
make[2]: *** [install] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/albert/vlc/build/src'
make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/albert/vlc/build'
make: *** [install] Error 2

I'm stuck now and would be grateful for help. Many thanks in advance!

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Hardy (8.04) - JBK

JBK — Wed, 21 May 2008 14:21:18 -0700

Yes, you can. Use all the caching options.

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Hardy (8.04) - Alexandre Gontijo Rabelo

Alexandre Gontijo Rabelo — Tue, 20 May 2008 19:00:50 -0700

So, Can I change the size buffer of the MPEG 4 transmission in the source code? Or, is possible change in the configuration of the program without recompile?

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Hardy (8.04) - dionysos23

dionysos23 — Sat, 17 May 2008 06:41:57 -0700

Thanks for the HowTo. The tree for ffmpeg did not work for me either, I had to do it like ECN above....

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Hardy (8.04) - JBK

JBK — Fri, 09 May 2008 10:17:11 -0700

I am interesting in how to reproduce that bug. Please share it!

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Hardy (8.04) - sasch

sasch — Wed, 07 May 2008 09:34:50 -0700

Hi Jean-Baptiste,
i have compiled it. But when i start the playlist vlc abortet. Over the terminal this comes:

ASSERT: "logicalIndex >= 0" in file itemviews/qheaderview.cpp, line 1215
Aborted

Greets from Hamburg
Sasch

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Hardy (8.04) - ECN

ECN — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:08:42 -0700

In order to compile it without errors I had to take out the tree- specifiction for instance:

--with-ffmpeg-tree=../extras/ffmpeg

../configure --prefix=/usr --enable-snapshot --enable-debug --enable-dbus-control --enable-musicbrainz --enable-shared-libvlc --enable-mozilla --enable-lirc --enable-x264 --with-x264-tree=../extras/x264 --enable-shout --enable-taglib --enable-v4l --enable-dvb --enable-realrtsp --disable-xvmc --enable-svg --enable-dvdread --enable-dc1394 --enable-dv --enable-theora --enable-faad --enable-twolame --enable-real --enable-flac --enable-tremor --enable-skins2 --enable-qt4 --enable-ncurses --enable-aa --enable-caca --enable-esd --disable-portaudio --enable-jack --enable-xosd --enable-galaktos --enable-goom --enable-ggi --disable-cddax --disable-vcdx --disable-quicktime --enable-lua

And then it went ok, is it normal?

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Hardy (8.04) - TK

TK — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 18:36:10 -0700

Thank you, seemed to have worked just fine.

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Hardy (8.04) - JBK

JBK — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 11:04:12 -0700

Give me MORE details if you want help.

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Hardy (8.04) - spud

spud — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 18:14:58 -0700

ffmpeg is not being seen and I can mot cinfigure it in the eXtras folder a how to for ffmpeg is a MUSTit was in your fist post on 7.04 followed it but it will not config

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Hardy (8.04) - spud

spud — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 07:42:09 -0700

this did not work for me followed the steps all the way to the end.when I ran the make command said no make file stop any ideas what went wrong

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Hardy (8.04) - will

will — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 21:02:13 -0700

p.s. would you consider posting this on the ubuntu forums? I looked for a long time and was never successful at getting a working install before this. It certainly does not work over the network when you just use the synaptic to install

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Hardy (8.04) - will

will — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 20:57:25 -0700

I can't thank you enough for this post. Before following these instructions every time i went to play anything over my network including dvr.ms f iles it was choppy to the point of being unwatchable. The only thing that did not work for me was the final % make command. but everything seems to working despite that.

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Hardy (8.04) - JBK

JBK — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:53:34 -0700

Yes, x264 and VLC moved to Git.

The HowTo should be good.

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Hardy (8.04) - mariuz

mariuz — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 22:30:04 -0700

sorry for the above post

ok now is fixed i compiled on hardy and all went ok

http://mapopa.blogspot.com/2008/04/...

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Hardy (8.04) - mariuz

mariuz — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 06:19:12 -0700

i have the same problem with compiling on hardy

dget -x http://nightlies.videolan.org/build...
then doing the
debuild -i

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Hardy (8.04) - mariuz

mariuz — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 06:16:46 -0700

x264 is moved to git seems
so replace the svn checkout with this

git clone git://git.videolan.org/x264.git

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Hardy (8.04) - quentusrex

quentusrex — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 21:26:57 -0700

I get the following errors even though I configured ffmpeg to build shared libs:

/usr/share/svn/vlc/extras/ffmpeg/libavutil/mem.h:45:27: warning: "__GNU__" is not defined
/usr/share/svn/vlc/extras/ffmpeg/libavutil/mem.h:45:42: warning: "__GNU__" is not defined
/usr/share/svn/vlc/extras/ffmpeg/libavutil/mem.h:51:27: warning: "__GNU__" is not defined
/usr/share/svn/vlc/extras/ffmpeg/libavutil/mem.h:51:42: warning: "__GNU__" is not defined
/bin/sh ../../../libtool --tag=CC --mode=link gcc -std=gnu99 -Wall -Wextra -Wsign-compare -Wundef -Wpointer-arith -Wbad-function-cast -Wcast-align -Wwrite-strings -Wmissing-prototypes -Wvolatile-register-var -rpath '/usr/lib/vlc/codec' -avoid-version -module -no-undefined -shrext .so -export-dynamic -o libffmpeg_plugin.la -rpath '/usr/lib/vlc/codec' -avoid-version -module -no-undefined -shrext .so -export-dynamic `top_builddir="../../.." ../../../vlc-config --ldflags plugin ffmpeg` libffmpeg_plugin_la-ffmpeg.lo libffmpeg_plugin_la-video.lo libffmpeg_plugin_la-audio.lo libffmpeg_plugin_la-video_filter.lo libffmpeg_plugin_la-deinterlace.lo libffmpeg_plugin_la-chroma.lo libffmpeg_plugin_la-encoder.lo libffmpeg_plugin_la-postprocess.lo libffmpeg_plugin_la-demux.lo libffmpeg_plugin_la-mux.lo libffmpeg_plugin_la-scale.lo ../../../src/libvlc.la `top_builddir="../../.." ../../../vlc-config -libs plugin ffmpeg`

*** Warning: Linking the shared library libffmpeg_plugin.la against the
*** static library /usr/share/svn/vlc/extras/ffmpeg/libavformat/libavformat.a is not portable!

*** Warning: Linking the shared library libffmpeg_plugin.la against the
*** static library /usr/share/svn/vlc/extras/ffmpeg/libavcodec/libavcodec.a is not portable!

*** Warning: Linking the shared library libffmpeg_plugin.la against the
*** static library /usr/share/svn/vlc/extras/ffmpeg/libavutil/libavutil.a is not portable!

*** Warning: Linking the shared library libffmpeg_plugin.la against the
*** static library /usr/share/svn/vlc/extras/ffmpeg/libpostproc/libpostproc.a is not portable!
gcc -std=gnu99 -shared .libs/libffmpeg_plugin_la-ffmpeg.o .libs/libffmpeg_plugin_la-video.o .libs/libffmpeg_plugin_la-audio.o .libs/libffmpeg_plugin_la-video_filter.o .libs/libffmpeg_plugin_la-deinterlace.o .libs/libffmpeg_plugin_la-chroma.o .libs/libffmpeg_plugin_la-encoder.o .libs/libffmpeg_plugin_la-postprocess.o .libs/libffmpeg_plugin_la-demux.o .libs/libffmpeg_plugin_la-mux.o .libs/libffmpeg_plugin_la-scale.o -Wl,--rpath -Wl,/usr/share/svn/vlc/build/src/.libs ../../../src/.libs/libvlc.so -lpthread /usr/share/svn/vlc/extras/ffmpeg/libavformat/libavformat.a /usr/share/svn/vlc/extras/ffmpeg/libavcodec/libavcodec.a /usr/share/svn/vlc/extras/ffmpeg/libavutil/libavutil.a -lz -ldl -L/usr/share/svn/vlc/extras/ffmpeg/libpostproc /usr/share/svn/vlc/extras/ffmpeg/libpostproc/libpostproc.a -lm -Wl,-z -Wl,defs -Wl,-soname -Wl,libffmpeg_plugin.so -o .libs/libffmpeg_plugin.so
.libs/libffmpeg_plugin_la-scale.o: In function `CloseScaler__0_9_0j':
scale.c:(.text+0x1f): undefined reference to `sws_freeFilter'
.libs/libffmpeg_plugin_la-scale.o: In function `OpenScaler__0_9_0j':
scale.c:(.text+0x698): undefined reference to `sws_getDefaultFilter'
scale.c:(.text+0x9f1): undefined reference to `sws_freeFilter'
/usr/bin/ld: /usr/share/svn/vlc/extras/ffmpeg/libavcodec/libavcodec.a(dsputil_mmx.o): relocation R_X86_64_PC32 against `ff_pw_20' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
/usr/bin/ld: final link failed: Bad value
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[6]: *** [libffmpeg_plugin.la] Error 1
make[6]: Leaving directory `/usr/share/svn/vlc/build/modules/codec/ffmpeg'
make[5]: *** [all-modules] Error 1
make[5]: Leaving directory `/usr/share/svn/vlc/build/modules/codec/ffmpeg'
make[4]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory `/usr/share/svn/vlc/build/modules/codec'
make[3]: *** [all] Error 2
make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/share/svn/vlc/build/modules/codec'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/share/svn/vlc/build/modules'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/share/svn/vlc/build'
make: *** [all] Error 2

ffmpeg configure:
./configure --enable-shared --enable-postproc --enable-gpl --extra-cflags='-fPIC -DPIC'

vlc configure:
../configure --prefix=/usr --enable-snapshot --enable-debug --enable-dbus-control --enable-musicbrainz --enable-shared-libvlc --enable-mozilla --enable-lirc --with-ffmpeg-tree=../extras/ffmpeg --enable-shout --enable-taglib --enable-v4l --enable-dvb --enable-realrtsp --disable-xvmc --enable-svg --enable-dvdread --enable-dc1394 --enable-dv --enable-theora --enable-faad --enable-twolame --enable-real --enable-flac --enable-tremor --enable-skins2 --disable-qt4 --enable-ncurses --enable-aa --enable-caca --enable-esd --disable-portaudio --enable-jack --enable-xosd --enable-galaktos --enable-goom --enable-ggi --disable-cddax --disable-vcdx --disable-quicktime