VLC 2.1.6 for Dpup Wheezy

[Lil_humpers]

I have compiled and uploaded version 2.1.5
Improvements include better handling of .mkv files.
Seems to work very well.
See first post.

Thanks for all your work. I generally check your threads for new apps and I am very appreciative of the files you do post...skype, deadbeef, VLC and your browsers.

Thanks!

[vicmz]

I'm using it in OpenBox Precise, the only difference with Precise 571 is the Woof-CE scripts and updated Puppy apps, so we could say it works OK for Precise as well.

Mmm... now that I remember, sound was muted at first, only for VLC. I had to set my sound device because audio was set to "Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)". In the VLC window I clicked Tools > Preferences and in Audio I specified ALSA as output module and Intel ICH4 Default Audio Device as preferred output device. I don't remember to have had to do it with the previous package in Precise 571, it could be something in my derivative. Also, Intel ICH4 is part of my hardware (IBM Pentium 4), sound cards/devices may be different in other hardware.

Anyway, this got VLC to produce sound, and I saved it to my personal vlc configuration files, which I copy to /root/.config/vlc after installing, starting and closing VLC for the first time--quicker than setting my keyboard shortcuts and other stuff from the beginning.

BTW, for those interested, the stream in the screenshot below is BBC Radio 1, click Media > Open Network Stream (or press CTRL+N), paste the following URL and click the Play button:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/listen/live/r1.asx

***EDIT***
I've tested the VLC 2.1.5 PET both in Precise 571 and OBprecise 140726 as fresh RAM sessions. In both cases sound did work OOTB. Apparently I did some tricky configs that I don't remember now, but in case anyone has VLC muted the solution described above may help.

[Lil_humpers]

[quote="vicmz"]

Mmm... now that I remember, sound was muted at first, only for VLC. I had to set my sound device because audio was set to "Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)". In the VLC window I clicked Tools > Preferences and in Audio I specified ALSA as output module and Intel CH4 Default Audio Device as preferred output device. I don't remember to have had to do it with the previous package in Precise 571, it could be something in my derivative.

[Illutorium]

I have a problem for Compile at VLC v3 (for FatDog64):

Compiles - "Compiles..."
[strike]But I am sure that's not a GUI as be can (That's will be turn on Command instead or When I will be use a VLC 2.2 instead?)...[/strike]

Update (11/11/2014): I will be compile with qt4.sfs (with dev' profiles) instead.

Now it's a command: ./configure --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib64 --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var --build=x86_64-fatdog-linux --with-x --enable-run-as-root --enable-faad --enable-bluray --enable-fluidsynth --disable-dbus --disable-lua --disable-dc1394 --disable-dv1394 --disable-live555 --disable-nls --enable-rpi-omxil 'PKG_CONFIG_PATH=:/opt/qt4/lib64/pkgconfig'

(with "make install-strip")

Now VLC GIT for FatDog64 is here -> https://drive.google.com/folderview?id= ... sp=sharing

When if you want check builds command then you can use at "vlc -vvv"

[OscarTalks]

VLC 2.2.0 has been released. I did try compiling it in Dpup Wheezy but it looks like some libraries are too old or something. It certainly needs newer libdvdread and libdvdnav but even when I update those I still get an error.

They have also released version 2.1.6 on the same day and that one compiles OK so I have added a few more of the plugins including fluidsynth and this version is uploaded as .pet and .sfs

See first post.

[Hesse James]

Good morning Oscar
Thanks for the hint with VLC 2.2.0 being released. I downloaded it yesterday evening. Due to my investigations of some nightly-builds during the last weeks it was no supprise that 2.2.0 compiled ok. After a quick test I could not detect any problems so far (MP3, H.264).
I use latest Tahr build (6.0.2) with removed VLC and QT4.8.6 and added QT4.8.5 from Scabz (QT headers in DEVX modified too).
I overtook the configure parameters below from the Tahr-build VLC 2.1.4 (stems from Ubuntu repository -> therefor the complexity) and modified it if necessary (amount has to be reinvestigated). Of course a lot of libs had to be renewed by me prior to a successful build.
Good luck to your build attempts on Wheezy.
Christian

./configure '--includedir=${prefix}/include' '--mandir=${prefix}/share/man' '--infodir=${prefix}/share/info' '--localstatedir=/var' '--libdir=${prefix}/lib/i386-linux-gnu' '--libexecdir=${prefix}/lib/i386-linux-gnu' '--disable-dependency-tracking' '--build=i686-linux-gnu' 'CPPFLAGS=-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2' 'LDFLAGS=-Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -Wl,-z,relro' '--config-cache' '--disable-maintainer-mode' '--disable-silent-rules' '--enable-update-check' '--enable-fast-install' '--prefix=/usr' '--docdir=/usr/share/doc/vlc-nox' '--libdir=/usr/lib' '--sysconfdir=/etc' '--with-binary-version=0ubuntu14.04.1' '--enable-a52' '--enable-aa' '--enable-bluray' '--enable-bonjour' '--enable-caca' '--enable-chromaprint' '--enable-dbus' '--enable-dca' '--enable-directfb' '--enable-dvbpsi' '--enable-dvdnav' '--enable-faad' '--enable-flac' '--enable-fluidsynth' '--enable-freetype' '--enable-fribidi' '--enable-gnutls' '--enable-jack' '--enable-kate' '--enable-libass' '--enable-freerdp' '--enable-libmpeg2' '--enable-libxml2' '--enable-lirc' '--enable-live555' '--enable-mad' '--enable-mkv' '--disable-mod' '--enable-mpc' '--enable-mtp' '--enable-mux_ogg' '--enable-ncurses' '--enable-notify' '--enable-ogg' '--enable-opus' '--disable-oss' '--enable-pulse' '--enable-qt' '--enable-realrtsp' '--enable-samplerate' '--enable-schroedinger' '--enable-sdl' '--enable-sftp' '--enable-shout' '--enable-skins2' '--enable-smbclient' '--enable-speex' '--enable-svg' '--enable-taglib' '--enable-theora' '--enable-twolame' '--enable-upnp' '--enable-vcd' '--enable-vcdx' '--enable-vorbis' '--enable-x264' '--enable-zvbi' '--disable-decklink' '--enable-dxva2' '--disable-fdkaac' '--disable-gnomevfs' '--disable-goom' '--disable-opencv' '--disable-projectm' '--disable-sndio' '--disable-telx' '--disable-vsxu' '--disable-wasapi' '--enable-alsa' '--enable-atmo' '--enable-dc1394' '--enable-dv1394' '--enable-linsys' '--enable-omxil' '--disable-udev' '--disable-libva' '--enable-v4l2' '--enable-crystalhd' '--enable-mmx' '--enable-sse' '--disable-neon' '--disable-altivec' 'CFLAGS=-g -O2 -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Wformat -Werror=format-security' 'CXXFLAGS=-g -O2 -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Wformat -Werror=format-security' 'build_alias=i686-linux-gnu' '--disable-gst-decode' '--enable-xvideo' '--enable-run-as-root' '--enable-vdpau' '--disable-static' '--enable-x265' '--disable-mfx'

[Lil_humpers]

VLC 2.16 works in all the following

LX Wheezy 14.02

LX Precise Retro versions 14 and 15 after installing VLC 2.08 from package manager and then upgrade

[bruno]

Working great in Wheezy 3.5.2.11
thanks Oscar

[vicmz]

Version 2.1.6 works in Precise. Some videos do not display subtitles, but I confirmed that this is because of the video file and not VLC.

A note for those who'd like to use the video conversion suite, at least in Precise it does not work. For that purpose use either FFConvert or the old VLC 2.0.5 Two Flower PET from quickpet_precise + qt4.8.2.sfs which work OK for video conversion.

[8-bit]

I have Puppy Unicorn as a full install on a 30gig USB hard drive.
Recently, I went to play a children's video 1.5 hours in length that had a web extension.
VLC started to play it and about half way through, VLC shut down and icons started disappearing from the desktop as well as the 29gigs of free space on the drive according to a desktop app turned red.
I had to manually shut down as the usual methods of shutting down did not work including alt-ctrl-bkspace.
I booted to another version of linux on my hard drive and did a file system check of the unmounted USB hard drive linux partition and it came up clean.
So what happened to cause this? Buffer Overflow in VLC?
Do not know. Just a guess.

[OscarTalks]

Without having your setup in front of me it is difficult to troubleshoot and I can really only offer speculation and guesswork.

What I would say is that this VLC was compiled from source in Dpup Wheezy so will be linked against the libraries in that distro. Some of the plugins are statically linked but stuff like the libav/ffmpeg libs probably won't be. I would expect some of the libs in Unicorn to be different. Precise was quite close to Wheezy so most of the stuff works in that. With other pups it is highly experimental and even more important to take precautions as mentioned in the first post.

Does Puppy Unicorn have its own VLC and were you using that?

If you were downloading or streaming a video over a dodgy web link it is possible that you were also downloading a stack of other data which filled up the partition and shut you down.

[8-bit]

The version of Unicorn Puppy I am using was compiled by Barry K and VLC was included in it. So I would have assumed that Barry compiled VLC for that flavor. As to the WEB extension on the file that was downloaded using GTK_Youtube_Viewer and I had added it.
I am unsure of what type of file a WEB file is as to if it is a streaming file or more like an MP3 file.
But for the file to crash VLC and also Unicorn Puppy to the extent it did, I am playing that video no more and have deleted it.

[greengeek]

@ phredo,

OK, so I took the VLC 2.1.0 and re-packaged it with the needed Qt libs and set rpath to find them.

Perhaps you would care to test this (taking usual precautions before installing) and tell me if it plays your files.

vlc-2.1.0-i686-nodeps-s14
Uploaded as .pet and .sfs to:-
http://smokey01.com/OscarTalks
but I will probably take them down after you have grabbed them.

Hi Oscar - is this pet still available? I have exactly the same issue that phredo had and would be keen to try this solution if available. cheers!

[OscarTalks]

Hello greengeek,

The package is still in my smokey01 space as .sfs but not sure if you need .pet or if you can convert. I didn't compile the original vlc package for this, it was in the Slacko repos somewhere. I just added the Qt to make it work without that dependency. It should play most of the common formats but not sure about the latest ones like hevc/h265. My latest gmplayer builds will play those very well so long as you enable multiple CPU cores.

[greengeek]

Thanks Oscar. That sfs did the trick. I must have overlooked it as I was originally looking for a pet. MP4s now playing without issues. I will convert the sfs and be happy as Larry. cheers!

[bruno]

It works great, but how do I get the VLC plugin in Firefox?

[OscarTalks]

It works great, but how do I get the VLC plugin in Firefox?

Is this in Wheezy?
I am not sure about this but try installing the package "browser-plugin-vlc"
Try via PPM or from packages.debian.org here:-
https://packages.debian.org/wheezy/browser-plugin-vlc
This is the NPAPI plugin which goes in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
I just extracted the one lib file libvlcplugin.so from the .deb and placed it in that location.
Tested briefly and played an mp3 audio stream in Firefox.

[bruno]

Hello Oskar, yes, I'm using Dpup Wheezy 3.5.2.11
I just installed the VLC plugin 2.1.6 from PPM, and it is now installed in FF48, but it doesn't seem to work. It opens the VLC window, with the traffic cone, but it plays no sound, and the slider doesn't move.
I tried it on this website: http://www.thesoundarchive.com/ with MP3 and WAV sounds. When I download the file, then VLC plays it without problem

[OscarTalks]

Hello Bruno,
I can confirm that those clips on that website do not play in the browser for me either with the VLC plugin but other audio and video at other websites and media URL's do work fine. Seems to be just a case of that specific website not working with that specific plugin.

I also have gecko media player 1.0.9 plugin compiled in Wheezy in my repo. If I activate that it plays those clips on that website. Always good to have alternatives so if one program doesn't work you can try something else.
http://smokey01.com/OscarTalks

[bruno]

Thanks Oscar, now all is working, when VLC can't play it, the Gecko player takes over