VLC media player for Puppy?

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geo · #1 Post by **geo** » Sun 28 Jan 2007, 20:57

Building VLC is hard at the best of times, but I'm wondering if anyone is using VLC on Puppy?

http://www.videolan.org/developers/vlc.html

I'm interested more in just running the command-line functions to route video streams, rather than playing videos on-screen.

Anyone been down this path?

George
Proud owner of a Microclient Jr and Puppy newbie

#2 Post by **Pizzasgood** » Sun 28 Jan 2007, 21:46

There's a package for it. I think it's in the PSI repositories. On my system there were odd vertical lines on all the video, but I haven't had time to bother figuring that out. I was also using a "nightly" build of Pizzapup, so it may have been some library problem.

#3 Post by MU » Sun 28 Jan 2007, 22:17

http://dotpups.de/dotpups/Multimedia/VLC-0.8.6.pup
18 MB, so it might require additional 40 for installation.
Can't find he forummessage, but it is quite new, maybe 2-3 weeks.
Mark

john biles · #4 Post by **john biles** » Mon 29 Jan 2007, 00:21

Hello Pizzasgood,
I'm using Puppy 2.10 installed on my HD and VLC works as good as Gxine.
I have a 8GB movie installed on my HD and it plays it perfectly, very smooth.

#5 Post by **Pizzasgood** » Mon 29 Jan 2007, 02:03

Yeah, I figure it's something in my system. Someday I'll set some time aside to sort it out.

tempestuous · #6 Post by **tempestuous** » Mon 29 Jan 2007, 04:34

VideoLAN 0.8.6 media player
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=13863
I compiled VLC to check whether it's as good as MPlayer. Except for DVD menu support, MPlayer wins.

MPlayer 1.0rc1 + XvMC Nov 2006
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=13216

geo · #7 Post by **geo** » Mon 29 Jan 2007, 05:58

fantastic, thanks everyone.

George

disciple · #8 Post by **disciple** » Sat 10 Feb 2007, 07:25

VLC is much smoother than Gxine for me. With the 0.8.6 dotpup I also have strange vertical lines (not there with the Windows build) on a .mov file with ima4 audio codec and svq video codec (whatever they are), but it plays other videos fine.

The other strange thing is that it won't play recent .wmv files that the Windows build does play - it just shows the first frame, and then vlc closes. I'm a little disappointed, as I still have to boot into Windows to play them, because the latest build of Mplayer (which can also play them) won't even run on my Puppy

EDIT
I take it back - I get the strange lines with a DVD with different codecs as well - I'll have to go back to my previous VLC install (that was done all wrong, but worked great!)

evil · #9 Post by **evil** » Mon 16 Apr 2007, 16:11

I have VLC setup on 2 different PCs running Windows. One PC has a webcam connected and I have set this PC to stream from the webcam (capture device) to the other PC running VLC. I can view it and It works great.

HOWEVER: I read on the following link that Direct Streaming is only possible with Windows (and not Linux):
http://www.videolan.org/doc/streaming-h ... l#id300488

Is this still the case for linux? Has any one tried it with Puppy linux? Is it possible now?

Many thanks for any answers.....

disciple · #10 Post by **disciple** » Tue 17 Apr 2007, 08:07

No, that says that streaming with Directshow is only possible with Windows. That is because Directshow is a Windows technology. I think in this they are saying that under Windows you can use any video input device that is Directshow compatible - VLC interfaces with Directshow, and doesn't care what the device is. To stream video in linux you will need an input device with a video4linux driver. That page has at least one link for where to find information, and I would suggest that you definitely need to go elsewhere to sort this out, as very few Puppy users run VLC, and even fewer do any video streaming. Puppy does run VLC, so should be able to do everything that VLC is capable of under Linux, assuming you don't have problems installing drivers or anything. If you do get it working, it would be great if you make a post outlining what your hardware is, and how you got it to work.

Dougal · #11 Post by **Dougal** » Tue 17 Apr 2007, 12:35

disciple wrote:The other strange thing is that it won't play recent .wmv files that the Windows build does play - it just shows the first frame, and then vlc closes.

Ha! That's what the problem with 0.8.5 was and someone wrote a patch for it which they claimed to have included in 0.8.6 (the changelog says "native wmv9 support"), but when I compiled it last week it didn't work and it seems like when Tempestuous compiled his he didn't get it working either!
Maybe we need a newer version of ffmpeg.

Artie · #12 Post by **Artie** » Thu 06 Sep 2007, 13:17

I'm using VLC see http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=14935 and MediaPlayerConnectivity at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... 446?id=446 and this combination plays everything I throw at it in Puppy Prism.

Artie

willhunt · #13 Post by **willhunt** » Fri 14 Sep 2007, 03:20

Here is a version I compiled in 2.17 it works great for me
mpeg2dec-0.4.1-i486.pet
it required this one also
vlc-0.8.6c-i586.pet
played everything so far I used these configure options

Code: Select all

./configure --enable-x11 --enable-xvideo --enable-sdl --enable-ffmpeg --with-ffmpeg-mp3lame --enable-mad --enable-a52  --enable-dts --enable-libmpeg2 --enable-dvdnav --enable-vorbis --enable-ogg --enable-theora --enable-faac --enable-mkv --enable-freetype --enable-fribidi --enable-speex --enable-flac --enable-caca --enable-skins --enable-skins2 --enable-alsa --disable-qt --enable-wxwindows --enable-ncurses --enable-release --disable-wxwidgets

Artie · #14 Post by **Artie** » Sat 08 Dec 2007, 22:42

MU would you please update your VLC pup or make a PET? Source at
http://www.videolan.org/ thanks.

Artie

pdrito · #15 Post by **pdrito** » Sun 09 Dec 2007, 01:37

yesssss, please
update vlc version.

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willhunt,

please check those links for vlc-0.8.6c and mpeg2dec, they give me error.(not found or erased).
Thanks in advance.
pdrito

tempestuous · #16 Post by **tempestuous** » Sun 09 Dec 2007, 02:28

I contributed the VLC dotpup at MU's site. I used it just to see how it compared to MPlayer.
Apart from DVD navigation support, MPlayer is noticeably superior, specifically in terms of:

playback performance on low-end computers
codec support - inbuilt / external Linux / external win32
codec detection
playback of faulty video files and faulty video streams
TV tuner support - V4L / DVB / IVTV

... and the crowning glory; optimised video output options.

hoo · #17 Post by **hoo** » Sat 26 Jan 2008, 02:58

Any chance someone could build the latest VLC source snapshot?

http://nightlies.videolan.org/

I'm trying to use Puppy as a lightweight mp3 player, using VLC's remote HTTP server interface...

...however, a bug exists in the 0.8.6 version that was confirmed for me by the VLC board.

http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=43798

Large directories break VLC's HTTP server. They've added a new fancy scripting utility that apparently fixes that in 0.9.0.

I tried to compile the tarball and got through about three hiccups...but now I've got some weird dependencies and can't make it churn through.

I was able to install the dotPUP above with no trouble.....any chance someone could help me out and make a 0.9.0 version? Anyone? Bueller?

Saturn · #18 Post by **Saturn** » Tue 04 Mar 2008, 19:59

It is just me or does installing software on linux have to be such a pain?
either i can't compile or there are missing libs in pup or pet files.....
is it by any chance stupididty of my own or somthing else?
please help this has been going on for two weeks now!!

muggins · #19 Post by **muggins** » Wed 05 Mar 2008, 00:31

Saturn,

One of puppy's strengths, (which for others is a weakness), is it's tiny size. So it doesn't include every possible library.

Another one of puppy's strengths is that it has a helpful community. But if you don't post exactly what your compiling problems are, or what library files are missing, then how can anyone help you?

#20 Post by **ttuuxxx** » Wed 05 Mar 2008, 00:55

Saturn wrote:It is just me or does installing software on linux have to be such a pain?
either i can't compile or there are missing libs in pup or pet files.....
is it by any chance stupididty of my own or somthing else?
please help this has been going on for two weeks now!!

Hi Saturn

Ok the best way of getting help is to explain what you are looking for and then we can help you get it.
Thanks ttuuxxx

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