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VLC 64bit running on Windows 7 64bits. 1st! - Johnny

Johnny — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 22:34:58 +0200

yeah, a big thanks!

VLC and IDE - ghd straighteners

ghd straighteners — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 09:44:09 +0200

It only works with some 1.1.0 builds. My 1.1.0 rpm doesn’t provide any Makefile project import.
If you want to be sure, just get the whole package directly from QT.

VLC and IDE - gemtsone supplier

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VLC and IDE - camcorder battery

camcorder battery — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 15:56:28 +0200

I am with a bunch of guys who are completely used to dragging and dropping widgets and right clicking and coding them, or better still, using inbuilt tools to do the coding while they select options.

VLC and IDE - bp-511a battery

bp-511a battery — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 04:22:19 +0200

i am with a bunch of guys who are completely used to dragging and dropping widgets and right clicking and coding them, or better still, using inbuilt tools to do the coding while they select options

VLC 1.0 and VideoLAN for 2009 - Air Jordan

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VLC and IDE - p90x

p90x — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 03:25:43 +0200

Generally I do not post on blogs, but I would like to say that this post really forced me to do so,Excellent post!

VLC 1.0 and VideoLAN for 2009 - affordable reseller hosting

affordable reseller hosting — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 11:35:16 +0200

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VLC and IDE - miuni

miuni — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 10:14:22 +0200

I am with a bunch of guys who are completely used to dragging and dropping widgets and right clicking and coding them, or better still, using inbuilt tools to do the coding while they select options.

VLC and IDE - PowerShot SD1100 IS battery

PowerShot SD1100 IS battery — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 05:39:58 +0200

that makes the trick ! (though wouldn’t work without the starting "/" for /admin/)
However, I digged a little further for the issue and found a cleaner way…
That is getting edited in the post

VLC and IDE - click here

click here — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 16:23:27 +0200

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videolan.org stats for 2009: 90 million visits - kikidu

kikidu — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 10:39:56 +0200

En gros, est ce qu’une personne passe par php pour arriver à une page de votre site ou juste par le serveur web.

VLC and IDE - key programmer

key programmer — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 11:00:03 +0200

Nice and useful tips as for me! Thanks for sharing! Yo seem to be a really professional!

VLC and IDE - Buy now

Buy now — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 01:19:16 +0200

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VLC and IDE - faxless payday loans

faxless payday loans — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 12:55:21 +0200

This is a superb post {%H1%}.
But I was wondering how do I suscribe to the RSS feed?

VLC 1.0 and VideoLAN for 2009 - Web conferencing services

Web conferencing services — Thu, 20 May 2010 11:38:29 +0200

I was looking for this information,

I am surely going to share this with my friends

Thank you so much.

VLC: CDDB on Windows! - Sean

Sean — Fri, 14 May 2010 07:10:40 +0200

That’s great. It still doesn’t work. It didn’t generate text in 1.0x, doesn’t do it in 1.1 either.

VLC 64bit running on Windows 7 64bits. 1st! - Ric

Ric — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 19:15:51 +0200

I download this application because my friend said that this could help me in playing my downloaded movies that cant be played by Windows media players. Thanks a lot!

videolan.org stats for 2009: 90 million visits - plombier paris

plombier paris — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 09:07:33 +0200

Très intéressant comme article.
J’ai fais un petit tour et j’aime beaucoup votre blog, continuez ainsi

videolan.org stats for 2009: 90 million visits - mumuri

mumuri — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 21:32:05 +0100

ok donc le plus optimum ^^

videolan.org stats for 2009: 90 million visits - JBK

JBK — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:50:37 +0100

@mumuri: on code en php, passe par une moulinette qui génère du HTML statique. Donc 99% des gens ne passent jamais par le php.

videolan.org stats for 2009: 90 million visits - mumuri

mumuri — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 08:42:22 +0100

quand tu dis contenus statique, c’est que vous avez un script php qui génére une version statique du site html ou que vous avez un script php (type spip) qui met en cache les pages si elles ne le sont pas déjà. En gros, est ce qu’une personne passe par php pour arriver à une page de votre site ou juste par le serveur web?

videolan.org stats for 2009: 90 million visits - Dejekted

Dejekted — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 01:27:31 +0100

I just wanted to say I love your program….but I really hate that I looked at your resume….you have done alot in the Tech industry and your barely older than me….now I feel like a loser… Thanx mate.

videolan.org stats for 2009: 90 million visits - JBK

JBK — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 00:32:31 +0100

@mumuri: beaucoup de ram et que du contenu statique, ou presque.

videolan.org stats for 2009: 90 million visits - mumuri

mumuri — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 16:57:00 +0100

il a quoi comme config votre serveur web pour arriver à ternir la charge ?

videolan.org stats for 2009: 90 million visits - Samuel

Samuel — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 14:09:40 +0100

Great guys! VLC is just superb. Great work guys. Keep it up!

VLC: CDDB on Windows! - Anton Gildebrand

Anton Gildebrand — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 21:49:19 +0100

When will VLC 1.1.0 be released?

VLC 1.0 and VideoLAN for 2009 - fallen earth chips

fallen earth chips — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 08:51:27 +0100

I am definitely bookmarking this page and sharing it with my friends.

GPL VLC / iVivo - Ilan Arbel

Ilan Arbel — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 07:48:49 +0100

They went to the Israeli court against me to try and convinced the court that they have patent on the technology, that they own the technology. They sent provision patent to the US patent offce on the january 31 2007 doc 101102 confirmation number 2252.
Can u help me in this route?

Thanks
Ilan Arbel

VLC and IDE - darkfall gold

darkfall gold — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 06:40:08 +0100

Generally I do not post on blogs, but I would like to say that this post really forced me to do so,Excellent post!

top 10 VLC most wanted features - Flv Player

Flv Player — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 15:09:25 +0100

Thanks for the information…

VLC 64bit running on Windows 7 64bits. 1st! - Johnothan

Johnothan — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:57:09 +0100

No working 64 bit available yet. I have been trying with the source with no luck yet. Seems 64 bit adds a new dimension of problems. Maybe soon we will see one.

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…

VLC 64bit running on Windows 7 64bits. 1st! - Terry

Terry — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 08:51:05 +0200

Dialog for advanced video filters (brightness, color saturation, etc) does not show in VLC 1.0.1 on Windows xp 32 bit

Video on Demand: RTSP vs HTTP - video surveillance

video surveillance — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 20:21:35 +0200

Thank you Pierre d’Herbemont

VLC 1.0.0, 1.0.1, a backward look - JBK

JBK — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 20:59:22 +0200

@koskin: I think so yes.

VLC 1.0.0, 1.0.1, a backward look - koskin

koskin — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 02:08:32 +0200

Will those v4l2 fixes solve the lag problem?
Thanks!

VLC and IDE - Santhosh

Santhosh — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 18:51:32 +0200

Hi,
Super… This was very useful, I am able to use it as debugger[Start and debug external application].

But, I too got same error as 5th comment, i have already compiled VLC before, using mingw tool and got exe built, But it gives error when i do it QT, Please help for building with QT.

Thanks and Regards
Santhosh

VLC 1.0.0, 1.0.1, a backward look - thresh

thresh — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 07:43:48 +0200

Well, with all those good work done by our students in current SoC, we have a huge chance 1.1 will be a lot better (feature-wise, hehe, not bugfree-wise) than 1.0.

Keep up the work, J-B!

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

Feo — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 23:20:40 +0200

I have the same problem(

Video on Demand: RTSP vs HTTP - Ivan

Ivan — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:33:15 +0200

Good morning everyone, could someone please explain me a little bit more in detail why RTSP is considered better than HTTP in live streaming?
I thank you so much in advance, and I look forward for your reply.

VLC and IDE - Anp

Anp — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:55:35 +0200

the post is informative.
But can you please describe me about how to start coding for VLC.
I cant understand the insides in my first second and third looks.
pls let me know how to beginners code for VLC

thanks in advance.
Anoop

VLC and IDE - JBK

JBK — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 20:14:17 +0200

Sorry, guys, but on windows, you have to compile a VLC first, before running make, and this is far from trivial.

VLC and IDE - Jeremiah

Jeremiah — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 11:12:19 +0200

hi~
i got the same error as the 5th comment.

my os is xp sp2.
build vlc in cygwin.

VLC and IDE - Roman

Roman — Mon, 25 May 2009 20:12:16 +0200

I did exactly and got this error "Could not start process make
Error while building project VLC
When executing build step ‘Make’ "
Can you please help me with this.
I’m using win xp pro and my dir for vlc src is c:\vlv\vlc

Thank you,
Roman

VLC and IDE - FCartegnie

FCartegnie — Sun, 24 May 2009 18:53:56 +0200

It only works with some 1.1.0 builds. My 1.1.0 rpm doesn’t provide any Makefile project import.
If you want to be sure, just get the whole package directly from QT.

VLC and IDE - MetalheadGautham

MetalheadGautham — Sat, 09 May 2009 10:22:20 +0200

What I meant was, is this the kind of software which allows point and click kind of programming, atleast on Linux, similar to Visual Basic or Visual C++ on windows ?

I am with a bunch of guys who are completely used to dragging and dropping widgets and right clicking and coding them, or better still, using inbuilt tools to do the coding while they select options.

VLC and IDE - JBK

JBK — Mon, 04 May 2009 02:37:16 +0200

You might need to wait for 1 or 2 releases of QtCreator to tell them to switch.

VLC and IDE - MetalheadGautham

MetalheadGautham — Sun, 03 May 2009 14:52:23 +0200

EXCELLENT! Thanks. Exactly the software I was looking for.

Is this good enough for convincing a few friends of mine to switch to Qt who are used to MS Visual Basic ?

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.

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?

VLC 1.0 and VideoLAN for 2009 - JBK

JBK — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 16:59:45 +0200

Can you fill a bug about this?

VLC 1.0 and VideoLAN for 2009 - TVfan

TVfan — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 17:30:48 +0200

Can you please assign a hotkey for cycling audio channel similar to the hotkey for cycling audio track. Many thanks!!!

Interview dans Linux Pratique Essentiel - Pierre

Pierre — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:10:20 +0200

Et au fait...mets à jour ta page d'accueil, elle a du retard :D
Et je te souhaite tout le reste of course

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.

VLC 1.0 and VideoLAN for 2009 - gg940231

gg940231 — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 03:36:30 +0100

Can provide a complete development kit source code it?
I want to WIN-XP MINGW at compile on.

Thanks

gg940231

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?

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

VLC 1.0 and VideoLAN for 2009 - Vincent

Vincent — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 09:02:59 +0100

If there is a new release, can I have this as my wishlist

1. Can you save the audio setting (i.e. Audio Channel: Left, Right, Both). I tried to use VLC to play Karaoke File and most of the time they encode the non-singer audio track to Left channel. I can't enjoy singing using VLC as it reset the audio channel to both everytime a new file being played.

If you can do that it is a big favourite program for me.

Thanks.

Vincent

VLC 1.0 and VideoLAN for 2009 - claude3

claude3 — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 22:59:05 +0100

I have bought a new PC lately with Windows Vista, and I cannot read dvd from other zones than zone 2 any more ; I have no picture and the sound is horrible. With windows XP, VLC allowed me to watch DVD from every zone.. Will the new version of VLC solve this pb ? Will it be possible to play DVD from every zone with the new VLC version ?
Thanks.
Claude

VLC 1.0 and VideoLAN for 2009 - sonam

sonam — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 07:07:01 +0100

Thanks..I have posted on the forum.

VLC 1.0 and VideoLAN for 2009 - JBK

JBK — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 22:06:53 +0100

You really should ask on the forum and redo the activation...

I am just not sure whether it is about playTarget and not addTarget.

VLC 1.0 and VideoLAN for 2009 - sonam

sonam — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 18:42:52 +0100

I am gonaa ask silly question..
I am using .Net Interface to vlc compiled in VlanControl.dll
I just wanna test,I did this;;;;;;Any guesses why it is not playing.I tried to post on forums but i haven't got any activation key for last 1 day.

namespace WindowsFormsApplication1
{
public partial class Form1 : Form
{
private string filename;
public Form1()
{
InitializeComponent();

}
public string utf8Encode(string ws)
{
byte[] encoded = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(ws);

return Encoding.Default.GetString(encoded);
}

public static string utf8Decode(string s)
{
byte[] decoded = Encoding.Default.GetBytes(s);

return Encoding.UTF8.GetString(decoded);
}

private void panel1_Paint(object sender, PaintEventArgs e)
{
}

private void openFileDialog1_FileOk(object sender, CancelEventArgs e)
{

this.filename = openFileDialog1.FileName;
this.BackColor = Color.Azure;
VLanControl.VlcUserControl vlc = new VLanControl.VlcUserControl();

panel1.Controls.Add(vlc);
vlc.init();

vlc.BackColor = Color.Black;
vlc.Height = panel1.Height; ;
vlc.Width = panel1.Width;
vlc.Visible = true;
vlc.Enabled = true;
vlc.Show();

string[] st ={""};

vlc.playTarget(utf8Encode(filename), st);
vlc.Play();
textBox1.Text = vlc.State.ToString();

}

private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
openFileDialog1.ShowDialog();
}
}
}

New laptop: MacBook - Joel Lopes Da Silva

Joel Lopes Da Silva — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 19:24:43 +0100

I quite agree with what you said about the keymap, at least for the French mac keymap: I chose a US QWERTY keyboard for my brand new MacBook Unibody, which is very similar to the PC QWERTY keymap. In fact, this QWERTY keymap is great for developers and geeks. You can even type accents easily with US International keyboard layout (http://www.brockerhoff.net/usi/).

Concerning the Terminal, some people choose to use iTerm, but I chose to tweak a little bit my Terminal.app configuration. We can have a pretty good result, similar to what we get with Gnome Terminal on Linux. Google will tell you easily how to do it... But if you need it, I can always try to find it again.

See ya JB!

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 :/

ToolBar Editor - Arite

Arite — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 00:05:13 +0100

Nice!

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.

ToolBar Editor - дима

дима — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 08:01:02 +0100

спасибо

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

ToolBar Editor - Pierre

Pierre — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 19:28:25 +0100

Sweat!

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 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

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

VLC media player 0.8.6d release - paul ashley

paul ashley — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:31:40 -0700

How do I find the Mac version of the new release?

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

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

I'm getting:

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

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

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

JBK — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:43:00 -0700

Giulia, mail me in private the messages. :D

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I have problems with compiling the x264.

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

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

I have yasm installed:

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

VLC media player 0.8.6d release - gallito

gallito — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 17:24:40 -0700

I like vlc is good

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

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

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

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

JBK — Sun, 25 May 2008 20:03:13 -0700

Try to reconfigure and make clean.

This shouldn't happen in GIt HEAD.

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

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

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

However, 'make' returns the following output:

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

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

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

JBK — Wed, 21 May 2008 14:21:18 -0700

Yes, you can. Use all the caching options.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

JBK — Fri, 09 May 2008 10:17:11 -0700

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

New laptop: MacBook - JBK

JBK — Fri, 09 May 2008 10:14:56 -0700

Interesting review, but still too expensive

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

New laptop: MacBook - laptop reviews

laptop reviews — Sun, 04 May 2008 14:35:31 -0700

thanks, you can check out the Apple macbook pro(2008 edition) review from here:
http://laptopadvisor.blogspot.com/2...

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.

VideoLAN Webbys 5s in London. - JBK

JBK — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 10:33:18 -0700

The chick is one of the PIR folk.

More photos are on Flickr.

VideoLAN Webbys 5s in London. - Pierre

Pierre — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 19:34:05 -0700

"il nous détestait parce que nous étions .com et dans son optique .org, le profit lui était insupportable"
Die Rotten communist!

By the way, who is the chick with you ?

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

JBK — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:53:34 -0700

Yes, x264 and VLC moved to Git.

The HowTo should be good.

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

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

sorry for the above post

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

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

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

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

i have the same problem with compiling on hardy

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

Reflexions about the first part of this SoC - Raf

Raf — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:38:32 -0700

i'm expecting this summer !!

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

Google Summer of Code: VideoLAN - deco

deco — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 10:20:10 -0700

i m really interested in getting together with VLC in the GSOC this year. But the problem is I'm not an expert about VLC but an enthusiastic. It would be nice if i can get more info

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 !

VLC media player 0.8.6d release - beira tamega

beira tamega — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 09:57:11 -0800

genial

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.

Video on Demand: RTSP vs HTTP - JBK

JBK — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 11:08:48 -0800

Fixed. It worked here, btw.

Video on Demand: RTSP vs HTTP - Pierre d'Herbemont

Pierre d'Herbemont — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 04:37:48 -0800

Note: "personal website" link doesn't work:
Use www.remlab.net.

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.

Rémi: "Issues with CMake" - DanaKil

DanaKil — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 07:55:20 -0800

It should be useful to send this list of complaints to the CMake team (even if they are aware of a lot of them...)

CMake devs was very supportive with the KDE project when they switched and implemented several things which was missing

Day of the cone - hoax

hoax — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 11:59:39 -0800

merci à vous popur ces images :D

Day of the cone - JBK

JBK — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 10:16:19 -0800

Translation of the previous comment... Google rot13 if you don't understand.

very funny, thank you for making my day! too bad you didn't include a time machine pod with a windows flag being flushed down the hole in the background. vlc is the best media player in the world, and this pic should be the official logo! too bad trademark issues would cloud such a possibility, stupid reality!! vlc makes me happy

Day of the cone - microwave hamster

microwave hamster — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 04:04:13 -0800

rot13:

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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.

GPL VLC / iVivo - achr

achr — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 05:16:54 -0800

Wow, now have a look at this:

[quote]
We are also offering our source code under GPL license for additional amount of 99 $ (sent it to our address and you will get from us the download instructions in a return mail).
[/quote]

They have no idea what GPL stands for ....

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?

VLC Skin Editor under work - jonnuz

jonnuz — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 23:43:00 +0200

This is a great news! and with tools like this there is no excuse to do not make better skins.

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!

top 10 VLC most wanted features - jonnuz

jonnuz — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 23:51:44 +0200

Hello j-b, after long time of being off-line... i'm the guy that maked the actual design of the website, all those are interesting features, fullscreen buttons, subs improvements, better ui :D indeed i make my first skin but it's very simple, also in my spare time i'm make another variation of the actual design. It will be great to update the current webdesign in one of the next versions of vlc.

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.

Lutèce d'Or 2007 - Updated - JBK

JBK — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 09:26:42 +0200

Thanks :D

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

Lutèce d'Or 2007 - Updated - Bill King

Bill King — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 00:47:27 +0200

Congratulations (well deserved)

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

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

French Elections: What should vote from a VideoLAN point of view. - mumuri

mumuri — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 00:58:56 +0200

http://www.foruminternet.org/public...

talking about that, here is what they intend to do for the internet ...

Eric Raymond leaves Fedora and questions about multimedia codecs. - Zachary

Zachary — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 01:35:44 +0100

I suspect that Real's loss in marketshare has more to do with Microsoft's Windows Media Player, with its own streaming video codec, being pre-installed on the PCs of most users (while those of us using Linux are willing to jump through hoops to by coming up with things like VLC/Mplayer/Xine/etc).

GPL VLC / iVivo - Oded Arbel

Oded Arbel — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 17:16:27 +0100

This is clearly a very blatant violation of the VideoLan project's copyright.

I suggest that the VideoLan project members discuss this issue and take action against this clear violation of there rights.

I'm from Israel and I'm really ashamed that Israelis are behind this (although it comes as no surprise :-< ). If you want any kind of help with this, I would be very glad to offer. You can contact me at the e-mail above (BTW - I can get you in touch with a very good Israeli IP lawyer who specialises in GPL cases).

GPL VLC / iVivo - thewizard

thewizard — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 12:50:14 +0100

If they are ripping of the VLC source code and all other things and selling it thats illegal. Send the, a letter saying they must stop or legal action will be taken

VLC release - Jirka14

Jirka14 — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 14:09:13 +0100

ahojky, hello, bientot

GPL VLC / iVivo - Regis "HPReg" Duchesne

Regis "HPReg" Duchesne — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 09:50:35 +0100

They wrote: > Our past release (Test Player) was based on VLC > media player with some improvement.

Then according to the GPL, they must make the source code for these "improvement" available to us...

26 millions ! - JBK

JBK — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 15:41:39 +0100

Well, the problem is not about VLC, but about the 3rd party libs that can't be build under MSVC, like ffmpeg.

So if you do so, you will not be able to have a functionnal VLC.

26 millions ! - StellarWind

StellarWind — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 08:47:59 +0100

//The source downloads have been down dramatically compared to 0.8.4. Why ? People don't build VLC ?

I'd like to! But I need it compiled with MSVC (for my project). I already wrote on the vlc forum, that in the 0.8.5 and 0.8.6 sources libvlc.dsp contains no files, so I can't compile libvlc

//I am gonna check. It would be great.

26 millions ! - JBK

JBK — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 13:04:45 +0100

Of course, many windows users downloads a few times VLC media player.

But, linux users are not counted, and neither the indirect links, indirect mirrors, etc...

So, it gives a good idea of the number of users. :D

26 millions ! - Tam

Tam — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 23:03:18 +0100

Being under windows I don't build VLC or anything else ... plus I may have downloaded about 10+ times because of reinstallation (windows you know).

Tam

GPL VLC / iVivo - Tam

Tam — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 23:01:20 +0100

Very pathetic if true .... Go and get them, or ask for royalties :p

Tam

Keep going on the good work. ^_^