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technosaurus · Joined: 18 May 2008 Posts: 4822 Location: Kingwood, TX

I just compiled and stripped vlc-0.8.6i with no gui and it gets down small enough to fit in a forum post - it plays video extremely well though even on light hardware... you just need to use keyboard shortcuts (use CTRL+Q to exit or it will stay in the background)

Dingo · Posted: Sun 17 May 2009, 15:06 Post subject:

just tried (on Puppy 3.01) to open a file flv saved locally, this is output

technosaurus · Joined: 18 May 2008 Posts: 4822 Location: Kingwood, TX

Sorry should have mentioned it was compiled in 4.2....what does ldd /usr/bin/vlc say?

I'm uploading a new version that has no (useless) menu entry but will become the default media player (you may want to backup your /usr/local/bin/defaultmediaplayer file)

Dingo · Posted: Sun 17 May 2009, 15:38 Post subject:

technosaurus · Joined: 18 May 2008 Posts: 4822 Location: Kingwood, TX

hmmm... impressively small number of deps but not too helpful for your problem must be one or the plugins in /usr/lib/vlc (not sure which to run ldd on yet)

this may be helpful to others

Space Play/Pause
s Stop
+ Play faster
- Play Slower
t Position
n Next Item
p Previous Item
f Fullscreen
m Mute
Shift+Rt Arrow Forward 3 seconds
Shift+Lt Arrow Backward 3 seconds
Alt+Rt Arrow Forward 10 seconds
Alt+Lt Arrow Backward 10 seconds
Ctrl+q Quit
Ctrl+Up Arrow Volume up
Ctrl+Dn Arrow Volume down
Ctrl+Rt Arrow Forward 1 minute
Ctrl+Lt Arrow Backward 1 minute
Ctrl+p Select Previous DVD Title
Ctrl+n Select Next DVD Title

Ctrl+B Bookmarks
Ctrl+P Playlist
Ctrl+I Stream, Media Info
Ctrl+S Preferences
Ctrl+G Extended GUI

also I compiled it against libdvdnav so if you want to test out dvd navigation you'll need that (everything else was stock 4.2)

technosaurus · Joined: 18 May 2008 Posts: 4822 Location: Kingwood, TX

dingo -> ldd /usr/lib/vlc/codec/libffmpeg_plugin.so

I am betting 3.01 had different ffmpeg

Dingo · Posted: Sun 17 May 2009, 15:59 Post subject:

technosaurus · Joined: 18 May 2008 Posts: 4822 Location: Kingwood, TX

you may need to recompile if you are up to it, so I am attaching my build ... let me know if you have any problems

./configure --disable-libmpeg2 --disable-wxwidgets --disable-skins2 --disable-nls --enable-dvdread --enable-release --prefix=/usr --build=i486-t2-linux-gnu --enable-run-as-root --enable-optimize-memory --disable-hal --enable-mostly-builtin --enable-cddax --enable-v4l --enable-real --enable-theora --disable-httpd
./compile
new2dir make install (choose option 3 to remove DEV and doc)
(in the ...486 folder you can delete /usr/share/vlc/ and run strip --strip-unneeded * on all of the files in /usr/lib/vlc/ to save space)
then run dir2pet on the ...486 folder

(feel free to run ./configure --help to find things that you don't want/need to disable ... and remove my --enable-* options as well)

mikeb · Joined: 23 Nov 2006 Posts: 11130

run vlc -v and perhaps delete the /root/.vlc/cache/plugins-blah.dat so it can redetect plugins.

Most vlc compilations have ffmpeg built in (to the binary?) so yes the shared avcodec is most likely the problem...perhaps kidnap a set of the libs from puppy 4.

mike

Dingo · Posted: Mon 18 May 2009, 07:36 Post subject:

mikeb · Joined: 23 Nov 2006 Posts: 11130

mikeb · Joined: 23 Nov 2006 Posts: 11130

Ok had a play with this.

On puppy 4 may need libdvdnav adding....menus work fine when added.

I also tried this on puppy 2.02..copied libavcodec, libavformat, libavutil, libpostproc and libvorbisenc from puppy 4.12 et voila works a treat...so a similar approach should work for puppy 3.
(never liked that clumsy wxwidgets setup anyway...why didn't they just extend the skins2 interface?)

Only missing blah was no mp4a support when viewing shoutcast tv stream...odd cause I thought ffmpeg supported that.

Overall this has great potential

mike

ps I tried this by removing plugins but never worked very well...guess compiling this way is the way to go...also neater for those wanting the streaming server / transcoding function.
What about having ncurses for a basic user interface?

technosaurus · Joined: 18 May 2008 Posts: 4822 Location: Kingwood, TX

found a way to make a gtk interface
http://www.semicomplete.com/projects/xdotool/ + GTKdialog

I found this which may be easier and allow for a similar interface to other pprograms that use gtkdialog

WID=`xdotool search --onlyvisible --name "vlc"`

xdotool windowfocus $WID
xdotool key s

(using the puppy control panel I previously wrote as a guide for the gtkdialog parts)

I am attaching my bz2 of the xdotool binary that I compiled ... probably should go in /usr/X11R7/bin if anyone else would like to play with it

raffy · Joined: 25 May 2005 Posts: 4839 Location: Manila

Using it now in boxpup 4.1.3 - great, simply great - thanks TZ.

(The playback can be played full screen with the maximize button.)

jrb · Posted: Fri 22 May 2009, 16:07 Post subject:

I have packaged the second version as ch-vlc_nogui-0.8.6.sfs. It will not become the defaultmediaplayer in any puplet except ChoicePup but it is on the right-click OpenWith menu. Highlight as many media files as you like, right click-OpenWith-vlc_mediaplayer and you have a playlist. Nicely done technosaurus.

Thanks, J

P.S. I created new MIME-types for mp4, flaac and ogg files. You can get them here:
ogg flac and mp4 mime-types