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Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Hardy (8.04)

JBK — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:49:00 +0100

I found an ubuntu hardy installation, and needed to test something on the trunk of VLC so I needed to compile a VLC for it. Here is a complete HOWTO to do the same !

This post is an update of the popular howto for Build VLC with feisty.

Introduction

So we are going to build the latest VLC possible.

Everything will be done in a console/terminal and should be straight-forward. Every question should be asked on the forum, or in the comments here.

Conventions

Every line beginning with a # should be done as root, or using the sudo command. Every line beginning witha % is a normal line.

Building VLC

Prepare your environment

We need a few package starting from a fresh hardy:

# apt-get install vlc
# apt-get build-dep vlc 
# apt-get install cvs build-essential subversion git git-core automake1.9 libtool
# apt-get install libgcrypt-dev
# apt-get install libfaad-dev libtwolame-dev libqt4-dev libjack-dev 
# apt-get install libxpm-dev libcddb2-dev liblua5.1-0-dev libzvbi-dev libshout-dev

Checkout VLC trunk and bootstrap the tree

% git clone git://git.videolan.org/vlc.git

% cd vlc
% ./bootstrap

Build x264

x264

x264 is a library to encode movies in H.264.

% cd extras/
%
% git clone git://git.videolan.org/x264.git
% cd x264
% make
% sudo make install
% cd ../..

Configure VLC

Configure

 
% mkdir build; cd build;
%../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-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

Finish

% make

You just have to wait a bit :D

MacBook install: triple boot: linux, windows, Mac OS

JBK — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 03:17:00 +0100

This details the installation of a MacBook white, shipped in the beginning of 2008.

Set up Mac OS X

Updates

First before anything, update to the latest MacOS X.5.2, and all the necessary downloads... Reboot as many times as needed

Software

Then, install VLC, Firefox 3 béta, Adium and Xcode if you need it.

Done.

Quite easy, so far, no ?

Install Windows XP

Be sure to have your Windows XP SP2 CD and a legit license number.

Bootcamp

Go to spotlight, look for Boot Camp assistant or find it from your Applications folder.

Run it.

Prepare a disk space for Windows ( 16GB is ok, I think )

Quit and re-run it.

Install Windows with your CD Rom inside.

Reboot and wait during all the Windows installation that is long and needs a couple of reboots. Mine did fail once, for no obvious reasons.

Windows XP

Once you have your complete Windows XP installation, you will see a Boot Camp icon on your task bar. Keep it.

Put the Apple OS X CD-ROM in, and let it do all the installation of the drivers. It may require some reboots, but at the end, you have a very new and completely functional Windows XP!

Reboot

Do your Windows Update and reboot and again, and reboot, and again... Until nothing appears there.

Launch the Boot Camp assistant and Default Mac OS HD

Mac OS again

Reboot to mac OS. Be pleased.

Linux

This should work with any distribution and was tested with Debian and Ubuntu

Resize

Go to Applications/Utils and launch Disk Tool

Split and resize the main partition in order to have a new partition that you name Linux and format in HFS. (16GB here)

Check everything.

Reboot on linux

Put your linux live CD and reboot

Press `C` to boot on the CD

Launch your live-CD and install linux.

Install

During the install I deleted the new partition and added two in place:

One root partition /

One swap 1GB

Finish everything, reboot

You should be careful to install your grub in your linux partition and NOT in the MBR, to let reFit do it correctly.

rEFIt

On Mac OS X, install rEFIt and configure it quite quickly.

Reboot and use rEFIt to boot on linux using the "option" key.

Configure linux

You have all you want working except the wireless... Which is a Broadcom BCM4328

sudo apt-get install ndiswrapper-utils-1.9

Find in your Windows partition your wireless drivers:

sudo su

cp -r /media/Windows/WINDOWS/DRVSTORE/bcmwl5_**/ /root/

mv bcmwl5_*** bcmw

cd bcmw

ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf

ndiswrapper -l

ndiswrapper -m

modprobe ndiswrapper

ifconfig

Updates

Uncomment what is needed in your sources.list.

Reboot.

Problems

If you have any issues, like not having the linux partition shown anymore, reinstall grub on your linux partition with a live-CD.

Migration time - Ubuntu-debian

JBK — Sun, 13 May 2007 17:43:00 +0200

This is just a post to tell the results of debian and ubuntu machines migrations.

Debian's update are not so perfect, and Ubuntu's update are worse.

Debian and Ubuntu migrations

Spring has begun a few weeks ago and the big migration time started during april.

GNU/Linux Debian etch 4.0 was out early April and Ubuntu (GNU/Linux too, even if they don't admit it :D) too with feisty 7.04 version.

I had to migrate a few machines. I am not what you can call a n00b about linux ( and debian ) administration...

Ubuntu

I had four machines to migrate (mostly my family's computers). Three were running edgy (6.10), and the last one was still running dapper (6.06).

Edgy

Well, I tried to migrate those with the GUI thing. One achieved it. The two other failed to launch. So I migrate those with the terminal ( that was the most natural thing to do for me... ).

Results Well, the one I migrated with the GUI just rebooted did not have any wifi. A bit of /etc/network/interfaces tweaking did the trick.

The other one did not had any X. ATI drivers failure or something... It took a bit longer to make it work... But definitively, my sister wouldn't have been able to do it.

The final one did not want to boot at all... grub tweaking, updates and kernel modules updates but finally it went correctly. Not so difficult after all.

Dapper

Come on! That was a complete failure. I know I shouldn't update from dapper to feisty but still... Complete failure

Debian

Sarge

I had three different machines to migrate.

Nothing important to notice on the servers (mainly except postfix and nut).

The desktop one was a bit trickier, especially, X.org configuration and GNOME setup. Grub was fun, as usual... But well, not so difficult.

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04)

JBK — Sun, 06 May 2007 20:14:00 +0200

I found an ubuntu feisty installation, and needed to test something on the trunk of VLC so I needed to compile a VLC for it. Here is a complete HOWTO to do the same !

Introduction

So we are going to build the latest VLC possible.

Everything will be done in a console/terminal and should be straight-forward. Every question should be asked on the forum, or in the comments here.

Conventions

Every line beginning with a # should be done as root, or using the sudo command. Every line beginning witha % is a normal line.

Building VLC

Prepare your environment

We need a few package starting from a fresh feisty:

# apt-get build-dep vlc 
# apt-get install subversion automake1.9 libtool cvs
# apt-get install libgcrypt-dev

Checkout VLC trunk and bootstrap the tree

% svn co svn://svn.videolan.org/vlc/trunk vlc

% cd vlc
% ./bootstrap

Build ffmpeg and x264

x264

x264 is a library to encode movies in H.264.

% cd extras/
%
% svn co svn://svn.videolan.org/x264/trunk x264
% cd x264
% make
% cd ..

ffmpeg

ffmpeg is a codec library

# apt-get install libfaac-dev liblame-dev

% svn co svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/ffmpeg/trunk ffmpeg
% cd ffmpeg
% ./configure --enable-gpl --enable-pp \ 
               --enable-pthreads --enable-libmp3lame  \ 
               --enable-libfaac
% make
% cd ..

% cd ..

Configure VLC

More packages

Yet a few package to install :D

# apt-get install libfaad2-dev libtwolame-dev libqt4-dev libjack-dev

Configure

 
% mkdir build; cd build;
%../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-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 \
        --with-ffmpeg-mp3lame --with-ffmpeg-faac \
        --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

Finish

% make

You just have to wait a bit :D

How to install VLC 0.8.6a under ubuntu dapper 6.06 LTS.

JBK — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 15:23:00 +0100

Since the dapper version of ubuntu is still widely used, and they use 0.8.4 version, installed in the default distribution. But some might want 0.8.6. I heard them. Here there are!

Howto install VLC 0.8.6 under dapper

I hope that you are able to deal with a computer, synaptic or sources.list

Add a new repository

deb ftp://ftp.videolan.org/pub/videolan/ubuntu dapper universe

to you/etc/apt/sources.lists or synaptic.

Update the packages list

sudo apt-get update

Install

sudo apt-get install vlc libvlc0 vlc-nox mozilla-plugin-vlc vlc-plugin-alsa vlc-plugin-esd wxvlc

should do the trick. There are other plugins that you can install like vlc-plugin-arts, vlc-plugin-glide...

libdvdcss2

If you want to read DVD, remember to install libdvdcss2 :D

Enjoy