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MacBook install: triple boot: linux, windows, Mac OS - BENQ battery charger

BENQ battery charger — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 08:11:50 +0200

The big one is about LANGUAGE_CODE: that is the default locale used to display messages in. "utf-8" is not a locale. You will set LANGUAGE_CODE to something like "en" or "de", etc. Since Django doesn’t ship with "en-au" or "en-us" variants, leaving LANGUAGE_CODE alone will give you default English messages (as if it were set to "en"), which isn’t a terrible default.

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

pv-gs150 battery — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 07:56:32 +0200

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

MacBook install: triple boot: linux, windows, Mac OS - trouble2316

trouble2316 — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 17:06:03 +0200

so i got ubuntu and win 7 on my macbook.and now the sound dont work in win 7.but thay do in lunix .got a older white macbook with 10.4

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

MacBook install: triple boot: linux, windows, Mac OS - Peter Johnson

Peter Johnson — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 07:13:18 +0100

I have been trying got weeks to be able to triple boot my macbook 5,2 with snow leopard win 7, and ubuntu 9.1. I have osx and win7 working, and after alot of work, I was able to finally install ubuntu, but now after I select it thru refit, it says grub loading, then I have an option to select what I want to run, I choose linux. After this, I get a curser and then a black screen. Nothing happens.
I would appreciate any help or advise. Thank you.

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

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

Jekken — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 14:02:11 +0100

These instructions works brilliantly!! Simple yet functional.
Very good the part about installing grub to the linux partition instead of the mbr. That has been a headache for me. Now Im triple-bootin and doin movie editing in cinelerra in ubuntu 9.1, gaming in MSXPpro and using snow leopard for the rest.

Thanks a bunch!

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Hardy (8.04) - id3210

id3210 — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 02:32:12 +0200

Hi, folks
if you have no >=QT 4.5.1 installed, then goto https://launchpad.net/~c-korn/+arch… , and follow instructions, how to download it. Also, there is numerous other downloads for vlc build.

i follow these steps, and get new QT version, ubuntu 9.04

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

venkat — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 10:14:13 +0200

Hi folks,
I am not a ubuntu geek. I followed the whole tutorial on my ubuntu machine. Every step finished successfully except for the "make" in the last step. It said there is no make file and it stopped.

Any help…

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

Feo — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 23:20:40 +0200

I have the same problem(

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

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Intrepid - psychok9

psychok9 — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 18:16:22 +0200

Hello! Now that I've compiled without errors, I get this errors when I launch VLC:
@jaunty-server:~/src/vlc/build/bin$ ./vlc
VLC media player 1.0.0-pre1 Goldeneye
[0x1afc0c8] main libvlc error: no memcpy module matched "any"
[0x1b303d8] main access error: no access module matched "file"
[0x1b2db88] main input error: open of `file/xspf-open:///home/gianluca/.local/share/vlc/ml.xspf' failed: no access module matched "file"
[0x1b2db88] main input error: Your input can't be opened
[0x1b2db88] main input error: VLC is unable to open the MRL 'file/xspf-open:///home/gianluca/.local/share/vlc/ml.xspf'. Check the log for details.
[0x1b2e678] main interface error: no interface module matched "hotkeys,none"
[0x1b2e678] main interface error: no suitable interface module
[0x1afc0c8] main libvlc error: interface "hotkeys,none" initialization failed
[0x1b2e678] main interface error: no interface module matched "dbus,none"
[0x1b2e678] main interface error: no suitable interface module
[0x1afc0c8] main libvlc error: interface "dbus,none" initialization failed
[0x1b2e678] main interface error: no interface module matched "inhibit,none"
[0x1b2e678] main interface error: no suitable interface module
[0x1afc0c8] main libvlc error: interface "inhibit,none" initialization failed
[0x1b2e678] main interface error: no interface module matched "screensaver,none"
[0x1b2e678] main interface error: no suitable interface module
[0x1afc0c8] main libvlc error: interface "screensaver,none" initialization failed
[0x1b2e7e8] main interface error: no interface module matched "signals"
[0x1b2e7e8] main interface error: no suitable interface module
[0x1afc0c8] main libvlc error: interface "signals" initialization failed
[0x1b2e7e8] main interface error: no interface module matched "qt4"
[0x1b2e7e8] main interface error: no suitable interface module
[0x1afc0c8] main libvlc error: interface "(null)" initialization failed

Can you help me?
Thank you!

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

Mdr — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 18:25:31 +0200

I am also getting the same kind of error on ..Configure step. Any solution?????

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

howcome — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 00:49:50 +0200

I get to the configure stage in vlc/build. There I get this error:

checking for buggy GNU/libc versions... found
configure: error: Buggy GNU/libc (version 2.5 - 2.7) present. VLC would crash; there is no viable work-around for this. Check with your distribution vendor on how to update the glibc run-time.

Help appreciated.

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

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

JBK — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 17:39:11 +0200

Run ./vlc in build dir.

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

boshi — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 14:29:10 +0200

hi
i made vlc complete and i didn't get any error. then what should i do to execute it? where is the executable file that i have made?

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

omnicap — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 03:40:28 +0200

h JBi, cool reference!
I have installed windows on it now want to add linux. I think you have a typo in the linux part, it is disk utility instead of disk tool right? could you map out a bit detail how to do this step? i dont want to screw up anything as i have a lot of stuff installed in windows already.
thanks for your help!

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!

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

Ster — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:07:51 +0200

So , 7 hours later I now have a working mac with 3 OS on it. This tutorial as well as the on provided by Alien ( much simpler to follow ) work.

Also don't forget to sync like twodogs mentioned.
"you must resync the mbr/gtp by rebooting and right clicking until you get to the partitioner in refit. enter 'y' and your done."

The only thing that I can see is that the option to boot into Refit or another OS shows the Windows 7 option along side of the Refit. Is this becuase windows 7 is gpt/efi compatable ?

Thanks for the tutorial guys!

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...

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Intrepid - JBK

JBK — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 02:24:29 +0100

Yeah, I use the default ones, which means gcc 4.2 or 4.3 on Linux and gcc 4.2.1 for Windows.

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Intrepid - vlc fans

vlc fans — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 18:45:48 +0100

J-B, could you please point out the gcc distribution you are using for buiding?

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?

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Intrepid - JBK

JBK — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:51:35 +0100

Latest git fixes this.

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Intrepid - gitpik

gitpik — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 23:49:09 +0100

Thank you for this posting. I followed all of your instructions, but during make I get the following:

x264.c: In function ‘Open’:
x264.c:975: error: ‘x264_param_t’ has no member named ‘b_pre_scenecut’
make[5]: *** [libx264_plugin_la-x264.lo] Error 1

Then make fails.

Forgive me for my noobishness, but where can I go from here? Thanks in advance :D

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

miti — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 05:43:29 +0100

Hi
I've got problem with using git over a proxy server in ubuntu which blocks me to compile vlc. Any help would be appreciated.

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 ?

Ubuntu migrations to 8.10 - KillBush

KillBush — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 04:59:08 +0100

I've experience that if you upgrade Ubuntu too much it'll start working slow.... Did 7.04->7.10->8.04->8.10, and it slowed to a crawl. Reinstalled - everything is quick again. Despite nvidia drivers....

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

Alien — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:41:08 +0100

Thanks
I installed Fedora10,Windows 7 beta and MacOSX

Further details are in my blog

http://triplebootonmacbook.blogspot...

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

ku — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 06:03:25 +0100

jan, i get the same error with libmux_ts_plugin_la-ts.lo
how did you solve it?

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

SWmac — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 15:21:28 +0100

i cant split and resize my partions
"Error resizing format" occured.

i used. terminal with follow:
sudo diskutil resizeVolume disks01 400G "JFHS+" "Linux" 33G

any idea ?

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

helpdeskdan — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 23:59:53 +0100

I also had to install libdvbpsi5-0.1.6.tar.gz to make it work correctly.

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

helpdeskdan — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 22:42:21 +0100

Had to compile a newer nasm to make x264 compile

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

twodogs — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 21:27:32 +0100

you must resync the mbr/gtp by rebooting and right clicking until you get to the partitioner in refit. enter 'y' and your done.

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

Mart — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 21:31:50 +0100

Indeed cool site! unfortunately I cannot boot into Windows. I get the Grub bootloader and when I chose XP I getan error 12: invalid device requested.Boots great in ubuntu and leopard.menu.lst looks good.using rEFIt of course

any advice please?

thanks

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

jan — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 08:21:31 +0100

hi meow, do u able to compile using older version vlc? 0.8.6e?

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

meow — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 16:56:50 +0100

ive followed your guide so far and a have had trouble with the configure, x26x isnt recognized for some reason, i have tried installing it from the repos (jaunty(yes im using hardy))
here
"
checking for x264.h in /home/meow/Program Files/vlc-1.0.0-git/extras/x264... ../configure: line 54899: test: /home/meow/Program: binary operator expected
no
configure: error: the specified tree doesn't have x264.h
meow@Nebula-Class:~/Program Files/vlc-1.0.0-git/build$
"
dont know whats wrong :/

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

jan — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 08:08:26 +0100

Ok. i've done with make install. However the problem i cant transcode it using ffmpeg. it give me segmentation fault and it crashes. any ideas? even when i try to stream via mmsh, rtsp.

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

jan — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 03:54:47 +0100

Thanks. but got this another error.
In file included from ../../../../include/vlc_common.h:500,
from ../../../../modules/mux/mpeg/ts.c:37:
../../../../include/vlc_mtime.h:80: warning: ‘error’ attribute directive ignored
../../../../include/vlc_mtime.h:90: warning: ‘warning’ attribute directive ignored
../../../../include/vlc_mtime.h:108: warning: ‘error’ attribute directive ignored
../../../../modules/mux/mpeg/ts.c: In function ‘FixPES’:
../../../../modules/mux/mpeg/ts.c:1771: warning: unused parameter ‘p_mux’
../../../../modules/mux/mpeg/ts.c: In function ‘TSNew’:
../../../../modules/mux/mpeg/ts.c:2008: warning: unused parameter ‘p_mux’
../../../../modules/mux/mpeg/ts.c: In function ‘PEStoTS’:
../../../../modules/mux/mpeg/ts.c:2226: warning: unused parameter ‘p_sout’
../../../../modules/mux/mpeg/ts.c: In function ‘WritePSISection’:
../../../../modules/mux/mpeg/ts.c:2318: warning: unused parameter ‘p_sout’
../../../../modules/mux/mpeg/ts.c: In function ‘GetPMT’:
../../../../modules/mux/mpeg/ts.c:2464: error: implicit declaration of function ‘dvbpsi_SDTServiceAddDescriptor’
make[6]: *** [libmux_ts_plugin_la-ts.lo] Error 1
make[6]: Leaving directory `/home/dvbh/vlc/build/modules/mux/mpeg'
make[5]: *** [all] Error 2
make[5]: Leaving directory `/home/dvbh/vlc/build/modules/mux/mpeg'
make[4]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/dvbh/vlc/build/modules/mux'
make[3]: *** [all] Error 2
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/dvbh/vlc/build/modules/mux'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/dvbh/vlc/build/modules'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/dvbh/vlc/build'
make: *** [all] Error 2

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

JBK — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 15:10:35 +0100

make clean, make in src/

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

jan — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 10:27:40 +0100

Hi JBK, it was a great guides. however i got this error saying tat "../../src/libvlc.so not found". Can i download it from other source?

thanks.

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

JBK — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:56:34 +0100

Add --disable-zvbi to the configure line.

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

Tesla — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 18:30:57 +0100

i'm getting just the same error as eclipsemountain in post #30. Have no idea what to do about it. any ideas?

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Intrepid - JBK

JBK — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 00:12:05 +0100

@Johan: do you have all the ffmpeg devel libraries installed ?

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Intrepid - Johan van der Stoel

Johan van der Stoel — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 22:04:11 +0100

Great initiative to describe this so clear! I followed all your instructions, but got the message (during ../configure step): "configure: error: swscale (and its fallback module imgresample) support will be missing. Use --disable-swscale to ignore this error."
What did I do wrong? I must say I had this error several times before, the only to resolve it was following the comment. But it looks like you didn't get this error message, so I am very interested in your solution.
Johan

Ubuntu migrations to 8.10 - JBK

JBK — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 23:55:12 +0100

@Dave: those machines are not my machines, usually, so they don't have many services, however, I had 0 problems with Apache and MySQL.

For my servers, I still prefer Debian Stable...

Ubuntu migrations to 8.10 - Dave

Dave — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 10:13:59 +0100

@Sam - KUbuntu is just Ubuntu with KDE as the default window manager. It will suffer from the same issues as the regular ubuntu distro.

And FYI, if you want to have the functionality of KUbuntu in Ubuntu, type 'apt-get install kde' and voila.

However, this thread is more about upgrading between releases of Ubuntu rather than the GUI that's used.

@JBK - what about non-GUI apps like apache, mysql, etc. They were okay or did you have to mess with them also?

Ubuntu migrations to 8.10 - materthron

materthron — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:29:04 +0100

When I upgraded from 8.04 (which cumbersomely only worked with mesa dirvers) by means of update manager, my system was literally totally fucked up (couldn't even boot any more).
So the usual back-up old files to ext. hd, with Knoppix, get iso, burn iso and do a complete re-install cycle started once again.
Unfortunatly, X kept freezing seconds after log-in; even with mesa. Fiddling and searching for 5h (! what a nice way to spend a sunday ) finally brought up this quirk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Quirks#AT... which made everything run seamlessly ever on.

So, for me upgrading Ubuntu isn't fun either

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

eclipsemountain — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 15:54:12 +0100

Hi.... I was trying to apply this procedure, but I found a problem on the final "make". I get this error:

In file included from ../../../include/vlc_common.h:500,
from ../../../modules/codec/zvbi.c:44:
../../../include/vlc_mtime.h:80: warning: ‘error’ attribute directive ignored
../../../include/vlc_mtime.h:90: warning: ‘warning’ attribute directive ignored
../../../include/vlc_mtime.h:108: warning: ‘error’ attribute directive ignored
../../../modules/codec/zvbi.c: In function ‘EventKey’:
../../../modules/codec/zvbi.c:683: error: implicit declaration of function ‘vbi_bcd_digits_greater’
make[5]: *** [libzvbi_plugin_la-zvbi.lo] Error 1

Anyone knows how to fix it?

Thanks

Ubuntu migrations to 8.10 - JBK

JBK — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:53:41 +0100

@Sam: well, I did install KDE4 on the new ubuntu, but this doesn't solve the migrations issues :D

Ubuntu migrations to 8.10 - rafa

rafa — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 15:44:04 +0100

I agree.

Ubuntu migrations to 8.10 - Sam Gleske

Sam Gleske — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 15:14:50 +0100

Have you ever tried Kubuntu? It's useful as well and the new version (Kubuntu 8.10) takes advantage of the new KDE 4. I haven't had much time to fiddle with it though (past using the live CD version) so I don't know much about the new release.

SAM
sag47 on VLC forum and other Linux forums.

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

aef110 — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 10:04:14 -0700

Hello,

I just discovered that these instructions won't work for Ubuntu 8.10 ("Couldn't find package build-dep"). Have I neglected to enable a repository?

Or may I request instructions on compiling VLC under 8.10?

Many thanks!

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

ying — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:17:37 -0700

Hi,
I am following the above steps to compile vlc.

But i am getting this error:
checking for x264.h in /home/ying/src/vlc-0.9.4/extras/x264... yes
checking for X264... no
configure: error: the specified tree hasn't been compiled

but I did compile extra/x264 and there is a x264 executable under etc/x264.

Please let me know how can i fix my problem.

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

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

jahromico — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:24:34 -0700

my macbook not active keyboard

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

MacBook install: triple boot: linux, windows, Mac OS - John B.

John B. — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 19:30:43 -0700

Brilliant site! I have already installed XP using bootcamp and installed rEFIt today while just playing around. A couple of months ago I created a Ubuntu disc and played around with it on a desktop, but would like to learn more Linux on my Macbook. Now for the questions--
1)What is the procedure for installing Ubuntu after the above described procedure?
2)In the following passage you wrote---
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.---
will this all be self evident? I know the definition of a grub, but can you be a bit more descriptive on this step?
3)Lastly, to install the drivers for the wireless modem, do you simply type all of that code in the terminal on Ubuntu?

Thanks a bunch--I hope to be able to learn a hundreth of what you know about Linux!!

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!

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

Matt — Thu, 22 May 2008 08:04:41 -0700

Hi, I am having a little trouble understanding how to do this. I have a 13" Macbook running leopard and have tried to install windows xp pro sp2 using the bootcamp program but after windows has installed and my mac reboots I try to boot into windows and it comes up with error some file missing or something. I had figured out how to get around this by installing a fresh tiger and then running bootcamp on that and windows worked fine. All had to do was update into leopard and the windows partition remained, but now I want to install ubuntu and windows??

Matt

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.

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

JBK — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:58:19 -0700

I would suggest that you install Linux but install grub on your linux partition and NOT in your MBR.

Mark this partition as active and reFit should play it fine.

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/...

MacBook install: triple boot: linux, windows, Mac OS - Andrew Pennebaker

Andrew Pennebaker — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 14:37:01 -0700

Originally, I had Tiger. Then I installed rEFIt and Ubuntu Linux. I decided one day to try to add Windows Vista. Eventually, it installed. However, rEFIt no longer displayed Linux as an option to boot to. When I synced the GPT and MBR tables, Vista would no longer boot. Both Linux and Vista became unusable, and every tool (gparted, etc.) showed Vista as empty space, like it had never existed.

Now, I've wiped and installed Leopard, then successfully installed Vista with Boot Camp. Currently, I switch between them with the native Mac bootloader (pressing the Option key). I would like to turn this into a triple boot by installing Ubuntu, but I'm not sure how I should setup GRUB, etc. I don't want to use rEFIT for the danger it poses to my partitioning tables. Is it possible for the Mac native bootloader to choose between three partitions for booting?

My second preferred option is to overwrite the MBR with GRUB to choose between Linux and Vista, which I have done several times on other computers. But I'm afraid this might mess up the whole Boot Camp situation. I guess the safest option is to use Windows' NTLDR to load Linux.

What do you suggest?

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

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - JBK

JBK — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 03:04:32 -0800

apt-get install libdc1394-dev and libraw1394-dev

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - Hongquan

Hongquan — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 01:15:21 -0800

Hi ,
I am new to linux and building vlc under Ubuntu 7.10 server edition.
when I use configure to process the source code and found an error:"can't find libraw1394 header "
so I delete the configure --enable-dc1394 .but the erro is still there .
could you tell me how to disable configure to check the 1394 header .thank you very much !

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - Packrat

Packrat — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 16:29:14 -0800

the last ..configure does not work for me. I get

../configure: No such file or directory

I have cvs installed and am in the ~/vlc/build$ directory

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - ypctx

ypctx — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 04:56:31 -0800

@59: if that is a reaction to my comment, then my answer is:
I want VLC with S/PDIF working on Ubuntu Feisty 64-bit.
S/PDIF was fixed for version 0.8.6d, which will be not released for Feisty, unless it will be followed by a security update. Security is the only reason Ubuntu upgrades packages.
So, logically, I need to compile VLC from sources, (that's how I've found this Blog) which I yet wasn't able to do for my 64-bit system.

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - ypctx

ypctx — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 04:50:35 -0800

@58: sorry, I got confused by the fact that my comments first appeared, and then dissapeared.
In any way, you of course have the right to moderate your blog's comments. I just didn't like the fact that a possible solution got deleted..

Basically - Debian or Ubuntu maintainers make some changes on the VLC sources, after which it's possible to compile and link them on a 64-bit Linux system.

The Hardy source VLC package I've rebuilt for Gutsy has the problem of randomly losing sound for about 1 second, every so often, ie. once in 1 to 5 minutes.
I'm using S/PDIF, ALSA, IEC958 via HDA Nvidia on 2.6.23.14 kernel. The S/PDIF passthrough output in Xfmedia works fine, so it must be a problem of the VLC package.

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - JBK

JBK — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 12:48:56 -0800

What YOU suggest doesn't build VLC 0.9x, but 0.8.6d, which is completely useless.

If you want to develop something, use the trunk (0.9.0)

If you want to test the trunk and next version, use the trunk (0.9.0)

Else, use the packages... Don't build it. this is useless.

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - JBK

JBK — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 12:45:20 -0800

I don't remove any comment, I just moderate them.

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - ypctx

ypctx — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 08:04:58 -0800

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread....

may you live forever, my french friend.

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - ypctx

ypctx — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 01:39:59 -0800

hi, why did you remove my comment? i think many people who come here just want to get the latest VLC working, which doesnt have to be the SVN version... and I really could not get it working on the 64-bit in any other way, than the one I posted..

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - ypctx

ypctx — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 17:55:30 -0800

On Feisty 64-bit, the above didn't work for me.. But got around it:) Here's how:

1. install these dev packages: (see the above VLC building guide to get the other necessary packages)

apt-get install libdvdread-dev libmad0-dev liba52-0.7.4-dev libdts-dev libgsm1-dev libogg-dev libraw1394-dev libtheora-dev libvorbis-dev zlib1g-dev libdc1394-13-dev libavcodec-dev libavformat-dev libpostproc-dev libmpeg2-4-dev libwxbase2.8-dev libwxgtk2.8-dev libportaudio-dev libdvdcss2-dev libmp4v2-dev libfaac-dev liblame-dev libavc1394-dev libfaad2-dev libtwolame-dev libasound2-dev lib32asound2-dev x11proto-core-dev libice-dev libsm-dev libxau-dev libxdmcp-dev x11proto-input-dev x11proto-kb-dev xtrans-dev libx11-dev x11proto-render-dev libxrender-dev x11proto-xext-dev x11proto-fixes-dev libxfixes-dev libxcursor-dev libxext-dev libexpat1-dev libfreetype6-dev libfontconfig1-dev libxft-dev libxi-dev x11proto-xinerama-dev libxinerama-dev x11proto-randr-dev libxrandr-dev libxt-dev x11proto-video-dev libxv-dev libnspr-dev libnss-dev firefox-dev libslang2-dev libncurses5-dev libaa1-dev libartsc0-dev libaudio-dev libaudiofile-dev libesd0-dev libxmu-dev libjpeg62-dev liblcms1-dev libmng-dev libpng12-dev libgpg-error-dev libgcrypt11-dev libtasn1-3-dev libpopt-dev libopencdk8-dev liblzo-dev libgnutls-dev libcupsys2-dev mesa-common-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libglu1-mesa-dev qt3-dev-tools libqt3-mt-dev libarts1-dev libatk1.0-dev libavahi-common-dev libdbus-1-dev libavahi-client-dev libcucul-dev libcaca-dev libcairo2-dev libcdio-dev libdbus-glib-1-dev libdirectfb-dev libdvbpsi4-dev libdvdnav-dev libebml-dev libflac-dev libfribidi-dev libgii1-dev libggi2-dev libpango1.0-dev libgtk2.0-dev libhal-dev libid3tag0-dev libtiff4-dev libungif4-dev libltdl3-dev libimlib2-dev libiso9660-dev liblivemedia-dev libmatroska-dev libmodplug-dev libmpcdec-dev libnotify-dev libsdl1.2-dev libsdl-image1.2-dev libspeex-dev libtar-dev libvcdinfo-dev libwxbase2.6-dev libwxgtk2.6-dev libxml2-dev libxosd-dev xlibmesa-gl-dev liblircclient-dev libsmbclient-dev libsysfs-dev libjack0.100.0-dev libssl-dev comerr-dev libkrb5-dev libpq-dev libsqlite0-dev libqt4-dev libxpm-dev x11proto-xf86dga-dev libxxf86dga-dev x11proto-xf86misc-dev libxxf86misc-dev x11proto-xf86vidmode-dev libxxf86vm-dev

2. go to: http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/gr...
At the bottom of the page, in the line beginning with "Source Package:", there are 3 links: dsc, .tar.gz and .diff.gz -- download these into a new directory.

3. cd to the directory you created, and do:
dpkg-source -x *.dsc

4. cd to the directory created by the previous command, and do:
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot

5. cd .. and do:
sudo dpkg -i *.deb

You should have the latest VLC installed on your system now.

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - aef110

aef110 — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 23:07:28 -0800

How do I add a launcher to the Ubuntu menu for the compiled version? I've tried several variations of the following:

%f //home/albert/vlc/build/./vlc

Clearly, there's some incorrect syntax, as nothing happens. However, when I navigate to that directory in a terminal and type ./vlc it works.

Many thanks in advance.

P.S. I noticed another user asked the same question and was replied to privately. I please request that answer to be posted on this blog for the benefit of fellow new users!

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - jpsaman

jpsaman — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 00:15:32 -0800

I put up a script at http://paste.videolan.org/2964 that install all runtime dependencies of vlc. The same could be done for the dev libs. Maybe it is usefull for your tutorial.

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - James

James — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 04:23:49 -0800

Hi there,
This worked first time on Gutsy with the rt kernel... What an excellent guide: thanks very much!
James

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - JBK

JBK — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 18:35:01 -0800

@jpsaman: you are right, this is incomplete, the sid version is more up to date.

I'll update it when I install a new ubuntu...

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - jpsaman

jpsaman — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 06:44:14 -0800

The tutorial is incomplete and lacks installation of a52dec, libmad, libid3tag and much more useful features people would like to use on Feisty. Almost all these 3rd party libraries we as developers would like to install can be found on www.medibuntu.org in their repository.

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - jpsaman

jpsaman — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 06:40:16 -0800

There is a bug in your configure line, you both specify --disable-cddax --disable-vcdx and --enable-cddax --enable-vcdx. One or the other is enough.

I suspect you wanted them disabled.

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - JBK

JBK — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 01:20:58 +0100

Do you have llibgcrypt-dev installed ?

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - Niko

Niko — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 20:00:55 +0100

Hi, I'm getting this kind of error (the last lines when running configure):
checking for gcry_control in -lgcrypt... yes
../configure: line 72977: syntax error near unexpected token `1:1.1.94,'
../configure: line 72977: ` AM_PATH_LIBGCRYPT(1:1.1.94, have_libgcrypt="yes", have_libgcrypt="no")'

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - Ion

Ion — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 10:49:17 +0200

Hi again I found the error , I updated from feisty and package libpthread-dev was a old package, so I delete it and installed libpthread-stubs0-dev from Gutsy repository, after this compilation works fine.
Hope this help someone with the same problem.

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - Ion

Ion — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 10:07:42 +0200

HI !
good how to , but on my computer with ubuntu gutsy 7.10 it did not work, when I do first make (on x264 package) i have the following errors :

/usr/include/pthread.h:285: error: conflicting types for ‘pthread_t’
/usr/include/bits/pthreadtypes.h:36: error: previous declaration of ‘pthread_t’ was here
/usr/include/pthread.h:286: error: conflicting types for ‘pthread_attr_t’
/usr/include/bits/pthreadtypes.h:43: error: previous declaration of ‘pthread_attr_t’ was here
/usr/include/pthread.h:287: error: conflicting types for ‘pthread_key_t’
/usr/include/bits/pthreadtypes.h:109: error: previous declaration of ‘pthread_key_t’ was here
/usr/include/pthread.h:289: error: conflicting types for ‘pthread_mutexattr_t’
/usr/include/bits/pthreadtypes.h:79: error: previous declaration of ‘pthread_mutexattr_t’ was here
/usr/include/pthread.h:290: error: conflicting types for ‘pthread_mutex_t’
/usr/include/bits/pthreadtypes.h:73: error: previous declaration of ‘pthread_mutex_t’ was here
/usr/include/pthread.h:291: error: conflicting types for ‘pthread_condattr_t’
/usr/include/bits/pthreadtypes.h:105: error: previous declaration of ‘pthread_condattr_t’ was here
/usr/include/pthread.h:292: error: conflicting types for ‘pthread_cond_t’
/usr/include/bits/pthreadtypes.h:99: error: previous declaration of ‘pthread_cond_t’ was here
/usr/include/pthread.h:293: error: conflicting types for ‘pthread_rwlockattr_t’
/usr/include/bits/pthreadtypes.h:142: error: previous declaration of ‘pthread_rwlockattr_t’ was here
/usr/include/pthread.h:294: error: conflicting types for ‘pthread_rwlock_t’
/usr/include/bits/pthreadtypes.h:136: error: previous declaration of ‘pthread_rwlock_t’ was here
/usr/include/pthread.h:357: error: conflicting types for ‘pthread_kill’
/usr/include/bits/sigthread.h:36: error: previous declaration of ‘pthread_kill’ was here
make: *** [x264.o] Error 1
Help please!!
Thanks in advance.

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - JBK

JBK — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 02:39:39 +0200

I mailed you with the solutions.

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - aef110

aef110 — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 00:22:07 +0200

I'm relatively new to Linux but seem to have followed your detailed instructions without triggering any error messages. I'm on Ubuntu Feisty and believe I've successfully compiled VLC for use with JACK.

However... (stupid newbie question): How do I run it? VLC doesn't appear on the menu, and typing "vlc" in a terminal returns this error:

The program 'vlc' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
sudo apt-get install vlc-nox
Make sure you have the 'universe' component enabled

Does this mean the compile failed?

Thanks in advance for your help!

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - joe

joe — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 23:02:32 +0200

when running ./configure I had to apt-get alot of lib*-dev files. Configure failed about 6 times with what I needed to install.

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - debasish

debasish — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 08:00:48 +0200

Can you give me the full step to build it without gui.

What i mean is since we are doing
apt-get build-dep vlc
it installs lot of things.

I only want to use it as vlc server and only for streaming. Can you let me know the minimum configuration.

Second do i need ffmpeg for using vlc only for server.

Any help would be great.

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - d

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 21:48:58 +0200

what is the advantage in building vlc vis-a-vis installing it the usual way thru apt-get?

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - JBK

JBK — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 11:56:58 +0200

@dragon: you are mistaken. This is done to build and compile VLC, not to install it.

Building and compiling your whole OS would take a lot more time :D

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - dragon

dragon — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 07:55:58 +0200

What a shit this is!!! even my operating system don't take such a long time to install..is this vlc media player or vlc operating system!!!!

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - JBK

JBK — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 14:42:01 +0200

@ManRo: svn up && make should make it work again.

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - MaNRo

MaNRo — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 00:00:47 +0200

I need some help here
Everything went very smooth until I get to the final "make", it just don't seem to wok, this is the last part of the results:

echo "#define Q_(a,b) QString::fromUtf8(_(a))" > ui/sout.h.tmp
/usr/bin/uic-qt4 -tr "Q_" ../../../../modules/gui/qt4/ui/sout.ui >> ui/sout.h.tmp
sed -i -e 's/Q_(\"_(\\\"$.*$\\\")"/Q_("\1"/' ui/sout.h.tmp
mv -f ui/sout.h.tmp ui/sout.h
COMPILE : qt4.cpp
mkdir .libs
g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../../../../modules/gui/qt4 -I../../.. -DSYS_LINUX -I../../../../include -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D__USE_UNIX98 -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -D_REENTRANT -D_THREAD_SAFE -DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/share/locale\" -DDATA_PATH=\"/usr/share/vlc\" -DPLUGIN_PATH=\"/usr/lib/vlc\" -DDEBUG -O3 -ffast-math -funroll-loops -mtune=pentium2 -D__LIBVLC__ -D__PLUGIN__ -DMODULE_NAME=qt4 -DMODULE_NAME_IS_qt4 -g -DQT_SHARED -I/usr/include/qt4 -I/usr/include/qt4/QtCore -I/usr/include/qt4/QtGui -MT libqt4_plugin_la-qt4.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/libqt4_plugin_la-qt4.Tpo -c ../../../../modules/gui/qt4/qt4.cpp -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/libqt4_plugin_la-qt4.o
COMPILE : menus.cpp
g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../../../../modules/gui/qt4 -I../../.. -DSYS_LINUX -I../../../../include -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D__USE_UNIX98 -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -D_REENTRANT -D_THREAD_SAFE -DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/share/locale\" -DDATA_PATH=\"/usr/share/vlc\" -DPLUGIN_PATH=\"/usr/lib/vlc\" -DDEBUG -O3 -ffast-math -funroll-loops -mtune=pentium2 -D__LIBVLC__ -D__PLUGIN__ -DMODULE_NAME=qt4 -DMODULE_NAME_IS_qt4 -g -DQT_SHARED -I/usr/include/qt4 -I/usr/include/qt4/QtCore -I/usr/include/qt4/QtGui -MT libqt4_plugin_la-menus.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/libqt4_plugin_la-menus.Tpo -c ../../../../modules/gui/qt4/menus.cpp -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/libqt4_plugin_la-menus.o
../../../../modules/gui/qt4/menus.cpp: In static member function 'static QMenu* QVLCMenu::SDMenu(intf_thread_t*)':
ERROR : ../../../../modules/gui/qt4/menus.cpp: 444: invalid use of undefined type 'struct module_t'
ERROR : ../../../../include/vlc_common.h: 242: forward declaration of 'struct module_t'
ERROR : ../../../../modules/gui/qt4/menus.cpp: 447: invalid use of undefined type 'struct module_t'
ERROR : ../../../../include/vlc_common.h: 242: forward declaration of 'struct module_t'
ERROR : ../../../../modules/gui/qt4/menus.cpp: 451: invalid use of undefined type 'struct module_t'
ERROR : ../../../../include/vlc_common.h: 242: forward declaration of 'struct module_t'
make: *** [all] Error 2

Thanks for your help!
Regards,

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - JBK

JBK — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 17:16:19 +0200

Recompile x264 with --enable-pic

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - mamut

mamut — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 22:30:13 +0200

I had big troubles at making the last point and i dont know what it means exactly, i installed from a fresh updated feisty.

/bin/bash ../../libtool --tag=CC --mode=link gcc -std=gnu99 -Wall -Wextra -Wno-unused-parameter -Wsign-compare -Wundef -Wpointer-arith -Wbad-function-cast -Wcast-align -Wwrite-strings -Wold-style-definition -Wmissing-prototypes -Wvolatile-register-var -rpath '/opt/lib/vlc/codec' -avoid-version -module -no-undefined -shrext .so -export-dynamic -o libx264_plugin.la `top_builddir="../.." ../../vlc-config --libs plugin x264` -rpath '/opt/lib/vlc/codec' -avoid-version -module -no-undefined -shrext .so -export-dynamic libx264_plugin_la-x264.lo -L../../src -lvlc
gcc -std=gnu99 -shared .libs/libx264_plugin_la-x264.o -Wl,--rpath -Wl,/home/abox/vlc-compile/vlc/build/src/.libs -Wl,--rpath -Wl,/opt/lib -L/opt/lib -lpthread -lx264 -L/home/abox/vlc-compile/vlc/extras/x264 -lm /home/abox/vlc-compile/vlc/build/src/.libs/libvlc.so -Wl,-soname -Wl,libx264_plugin.so -o .libs/libx264_plugin.so
/usr/bin/ld: /home/abox/vlc-compile/vlc/extras/x264/libx264.a(common.o): relocation R_X86_64_32 against `a local symbol' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC

/usr/bin/ld: /home/abox/vlc-compile/vlc/extras/x264/libx264.a(common.o): relocation R_X86_64_32 against `a local symbol' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
/home/abox/vlc-compile/vlc/extras/x264/libx264.a: could not read symbols: Bad value
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[4]: *** [libx264_plugin.la] Error 1

can anybody help me?
thx

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - JBK

JBK — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 10:40:04 +0200

You have to add libjack-dev.
I updated the post for that.

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - jack

jack — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 00:06:39 +0200

i get this error
checking for alsa/asoundlib.h... yes
checking for main in -lasound... yes
checking deschutes/libraries/hdmachinex225/PCMAudioPlayer.h usability... no
checking deschutes/libraries/hdmachinex225/PCMAudioPlayer.h presence... no
checking for deschutes/libraries/hdmachinex225/PCMAudioPlayer.h... no
checking jack/jack.h usability... no
checking jack/jack.h presence... no
checking for jack/jack.h... no
configure: error: cannot find JACK headers

when the last ../configure is executed

btw, anyone wishing to share a succesfully compiled .deb (feisty)¿

merci

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - Jason

Jason — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 13:58:25 +0200

Hello,
Thank you for this great guide. I am building it on an x86_64 system. I have gotten to the very end, the last "make" on vlc and I get the following error.

/usr/bin/ld: /home/jason/svn/vlc/extras/x264/libx264.a(common.o): relocation R_X86_64_32 against `a local symbol' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
/home/jason/svn/vlc/extras/x264/libx264.a: could not read symbols: Bad value
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[4]: *** [libx264_plugin.la] Error 1

any ideas?

Thanks!

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - Blessed

Blessed — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 14:33:39 +0200

For me below commands don't work..
svn co svn://svn.videolan.org/vlc/trunk vlc
svn co svn://svn.videolan.org/x264/trunk x264
Whenever i write above command ,for me it says after 3 to 4 minutes
"Can't connect to host 'svn.videolan.org': Connection timed out"
i dont know what is the problem,although i am connected to the internet.

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - JBK

JBK — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 09:32:07 +0200

@blessed: the server is up. Are you sure you did not mistake anything ?

@crispy: well, then you downloaded the wrong repository and the wrong files...

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - JBK

JBK — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 09:30:37 +0200

@granjerox: I haven't tested a lot the mozilla plugin, since they change a lot the dependencies those days. Try to install mozilla dev packages like libxul-dev, mozilla-dev and so on.

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - crispy

crispy — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 19:46:04 +0200

At the x264 part i typed in

svn co svn://svn.videolan.org/vlc/trunk x264

instead of

svn co svn://svn.videolan.org/x264/trunk x264

It seems to download and install alot of files tho :D

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - blessed

blessed — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 15:43:21 +0200

When i try this command it says
'svn co svn://svn.videolan.org/vlc/trunk vlc'
unable to connect the remote host.Is the server address changed.

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - Blessed

Blessed — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 14:55:44 +0200

I tried to install vlc but i ended up at this command,
svn co svn://svn.videolan.org/vlc/trunk vlc
it seems like the address of SVN server is changed or server is down...Is it so?

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - granjerox

granjerox — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 12:09:32 +0200

while compiling i had lots of errors about
/mozilla/control/npolibvlc.cpp

it says "not defined in this environment"

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - granjerox

granjerox — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 11:24:46 +0200

I had to install also
sudo apt-get install libjack0.100.0-dev libfaad2-0 libfaad2-dev libtwolame-dev libtwolame0 libqt4-dev

before the ./configure .... could finish properly

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - Ez

Ez — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 01:19:11 +0200

I also had to install libjack on FF....thanks for the tip NARG.

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - Dule

Dule — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 14:15:16 +0200

@JBK
I have sent you email.
with all my lines after i do last configure so if u could help with that cuz i'm new w/ linux

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - JBK

JBK — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 13:07:48 +0200

@Dule: Your configure did not finished correctly then. Check it or ask on the forum.

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - Dule

Dule — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 12:35:34 +0200

@JBK
Everything worked ok and when in build i type "make" it says:
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.
and again i have path: dule@dule-ubuntu:~/vlc/build$

What is problem??

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - JBK

JBK — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 15:16:06 +0200

@Dule: What does it says exactly? Did your configure worked correctly?

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - Dule

Dule — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 13:10:33 +0200

On Finish
last command make - i can't do.
ANd i did install libfaad2-dev libtwolame-dev libqt4-dev
and made directrorium build and all those commands -and when i want to do "make" it just ain't hapening...

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - Sebastien Dionne

Sebastien Dionne — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 15:38:24 +0200

merci. je pensais utiliser les extras au lieu d'installer les dépendances.. mais ca sert à rien finalement

j'ai réussi à compiler vlc sans problème après, mais j'ai jamais été capable de faire fonctionner vlc avec sdl. j'ai même laisser des posts sur le forum de vlc, mais aucune réponse encore.

J'essaye dl'utiliser vlc et sdl sous une PS3

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - JBK

JBK — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 17:55:28 +0200

@Ustun: Of course, and debian is a lot better than ubuntu, the question is clear... This post was just about what happen one day, and my Sid was far away.

Also, nightlies are available for Sid, and not for feisty :D

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - Ustun

Ustun — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 13:06:03 +0200

Almost the same steps can be done on a Debian; however Debian Multimedia reps have to be enabled.

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - Axio

Axio — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 12:17:01 +0200

Merci !

Ça fonctionne super bien

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - JBK

JBK — Thu, 31 May 2007 11:07:42 +0200

@Sebastien:

Euh, pourquoi tu as compilé extras/contrib ? Je n'en parle pas du tout dans mon explication. Compiler avec extras/contrib est une autre paire de manche.

Faire ainsi change ton processus de compilation et tu n'en as pas besoin sous ubuntu, quelque soit la plateforme. Et en particulier cela explique ton pb de intl/

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - Sebastien Dionne

Sebastien Dionne — Wed, 30 May 2007 15:10:17 +0200

Bonjour

j'ai essayé de compiler VLC sous Ubuntu pour une PS3. J'ai voulu compiler VLC, car la version que j'avais ne contenait pas les modules SDL. Disons que VLC lag des fois, j'avais le meme probleme avec MPlayer avant que j'utilise sdl.

J'ai downloadé les sources avec SVN et le trunk.

Observation #1 : il y a 3 projets qui compilent pas sous extra/contrib. gnutls, lua, goom2k4. Je les ai mis en commentaire dans le makefile, pour continuer la compilation des autres, et je les ai installé avec apt-get.

#2 : j'ai fait ./bootstrap suivi de ./configure. mais dans le ./configure il y a des problemes, car il ne trouve pas le makefile.in dans /intl. C'est vrai y avait juste le ficheir makefile.am. Le trunk ne contient pas assez de fichier.. meme fait un update.. j'ai downloadé le source de la version 0.86b et ajouter les fichiers manquant dans le rep et j'ai pu compilé le tout.

Observation #3 : une fois compiler j'ai fait ./vlc mais comment je vais pour avoir l'interface graphique ?

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - JBK

JBK — Thu, 24 May 2007 10:36:09 +0200

@visitor: Sorry, I can't, I don't have an Ubuntu right now, I made that post when I was with my father's computer. You should be able to use sid nightlies on feisty, btw.

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - visitor

visitor — Thu, 24 May 2007 08:04:56 +0200

Thank you for the instructions. Could you perhaps post of build of vlc? a static deb file would be nice

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - nargle

nargle — Tue, 22 May 2007 12:40:53 +0200

Great guide !

Needed to apt-get install libjack0.100.0-dev to complete final
../configure on my Feisty Fawn install.

Thanks,

Narg

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.

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - yinch

yinch — Sat, 12 May 2007 01:35:11 +0200

YES! installing cvs fixed that. thank you everyone

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - bill

bill — Fri, 11 May 2007 16:04:36 +0200

sudo apt-get install build-essential

that will install everything you need to build stuff

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - JBK

JBK — Fri, 11 May 2007 14:25:59 +0200

Thanks. CVS has been added.

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - yinglcs

yinglcs — Thu, 10 May 2007 21:02:23 +0200

I think you need to install 'cvs' on your ubuntu.
It works for me after i install 'cvs.'

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - JBK

JBK — Thu, 10 May 2007 13:30:46 +0200

To both of you: I may have made a mistake in the directory, but I don't think so.

At the end of the cd.. cd.., before to do the build directory (mkdir build), you should be in the vlc directory, the one where you ./bootstrap.

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - yinch

yinch — Thu, 10 May 2007 11:49:15 +0200

Thank you for documenting your steps and sharing theses instructions.

I have tried these instructions and all goes well until the final section.

after doing
# apt-get install libfaad2-dev libtwolame-dev libqt4-dev

doing the
%../configure --prefix=/usr ...<snip>... -disable-quicktime

doesn't work - there is no "configure" executable in the directory above the "build" folder (as far as I can tell)

would greatly appreciate any insight you might be able to provide.

yinch'07

Build VLC media player under Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) - Taheton

Taheton — Wed, 09 May 2007 15:23:01 +0200

Hi.

If I want to configure vlc I become the error message that configure is not available.

> ../configure: No such file or directory

Any suggestion?

Regards Frank

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

Christer Edwards — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 00:42:40 +0100

Thanks for that tip. I'll make sure I'm up-to-date on VLC (which is the best player!).

Shameless plug:
I've got a tutorial for DVD playback here:
http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2006/12...