VLC 8.6h mediaplayer Lite 7.8MB pet

[nooby]

so much to read. As a noob. I drown in all info.

I downloaded all three as others also indicated.

http://www.puppylinux.ca/tpp/ttuuxxx/pr ... -engv4.pet

http://www.puppylinux.ca/tpp/ttuuxxx/pr ... 1.2.13.pet

http://www.puppylinux.ca/tpp/ttuuxxx/pr ... 8-i386.pet



But how am I supposed to bind??? VLC to Seamoneky
so it get activated when BBC ask for realplayer?

and how am I supposed to activate it to play a .mpg
pr .vlc or .rm file in or on my hdd.

I looked in the menu it was not there. I tried to look
for it using the File but failed to find it and I wrote its
name in the console but most likely one should have
a start or call or some command me don't know.

Sorry to derail the thread. I want vlc going so I can test too.

[ttuuxxx]

Nooby ,Nooby, Nooby
on the first page there are 3 downloads on the top, and one on the bottom, I'll fix that soon.
Here is the download you missed, It for mp4/quicktime
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... h&id=11185
Also to make it your "Default Mediaplayer"
install the pet package at the bottom of this message
Good luck
ttuuxxx

Ps on the second page there is also a link to Multiget, try that also, it will increase your download speed 4X If you have highspeed.

[nooby]

Did as you instructed to the best of my knowledge

Thanks for believing in my progress using pets and installs.

I should reboot now to see if something did happen.

[ttuuxxx]

Did as you instructed to the best of my knowledge

Thanks for believing in my progress using pets and installs.

I should reboot now to see if something did happen.

Just click /menu/restart JWM
it will be in the menu/multimedia location

Sometimes in menus + entries you have to open Console and type
fixmenus
then restart JWM
you never have to totally reboot.
well unless you installing sfs files.
ttuuxxx

[nooby]

Hate to make you disappointed due to my extreme clumsiness
in following instructions. I thought me had done all the right stuff
clicked on right buttons. I even did the fixmenus and it did so
but no vlc at all.

In another thread one poster suggested one need to go into .packages to activate a progr.

But there I only found .txt files and no prog to activate.

Do you have frugal install too? could it vlc and the other 4 things end up in unexpected places where the programs don't look?

I even used pfind and that one did a too broad search so it found a lot of vlc stuff in the windows part of the computer instead of just searching in puppy folders.

When I did pet it told me where it thought it put things but it was
too much to write down I'm not that patient.

are there no log that could show what went on this day. then it would tell where the prog put things?

I will test Real Player 11 now and get back to VLC later.

I have saved a copy of the save file in a secure place.
so I can get back to here when I want to, I also saved the
original pristine state of original puppy so I can start anew.

Ttuxx thanks indeed for all work you put into this.
As you get ware of. It it totally unpredictable how
an individual noob understand a description and
how they manage to follow it. I'm very surprised too.

I really did believe it would work this time. I expected it to.

[ttuuxxx]

Hate to make you disappointed due to my extreme clumsiness
in following instructions. I thought me had done all the right stuff
clicked on right buttons. I even did the fixmenus and it did so
but no vlc at all.

In another thread one poster suggested one need to go into .packages to activate a progr.

But there I only found .txt files and no prog to activate.

Do you have frugal install too? could it vlc and the other 4 things end up in unexpected places where the programs don't look?

I even used pfind and that one did a too broad search so it found a lot of vlc stuff in the windows part of the computer instead of just searching in puppy folders.

When I did pet it told me where it thought it put things but it was
too much to write down I'm not that patient.

are there no log that could show what went on this day. then it would tell where the prog put things?

I will test Real Player 11 now and get back to VLC later.

I have saved a copy of the save file in a secure place.
so I can get back to here when I want to, I also saved the
original pristine state of original puppy so I can start anew.

Ttuxx thanks indeed for all work you put into this.
As you get ware of. It it totally unpredictable how
an individual noob understand a description and
how they manage to follow it. I'm very surprised too.

I really did believe it would work this time. I expected it to.

I was going to start compiling Qt4 but first I'll fix simplify it for you.
brb in a bit
ttuuxxx

[nooby]

I'm eagerly waiting here. Is it late at night in Sydney? lör 03:33

the world clock says. 03 in the morning?

I log out and reboot into vlc version of puppy I saved.

[ttuuxxx]

ok its updated
Just go to page 1 and download the link, and also download the pet package under it, Install both and it will be your default media player. Have fun
ttuuxxx

[nooby]

Great thanks but shouldn't one suppose to delete all the others then.

And I even fail to find them.

Ok I start anew by deleting the whole pup_save that will ease things
and then I do your thing there.

Thanks really hope it works this time.

[nooby]

Well half success. It certainly are in one menu now but not in the one
for setting run action. And if I start with the vlc and goto a directory with files to play then it fail to play them. The program seems to be ok but nothing happens. So something goes wrong still.

I have to find the online site with all the examples again and see if that one ask for application from within seamonkey and if that allow to activate VLC in any way.

So near or close and not closure. Frustrating.

Progress finally. Not a cigar but almost.

I managed to set run actions for avi, wmv, mpg, flv and .rm files
to different players. gxine and VLC

I should try to get more codex for gxine cause it fails on some streaming videos from TV stations.

And unfortunate VLC failed on .rm but gxine did work on them so that was a good thing.

I had hoped VLC could take .rm but not those I had.

Ttuxx thanks for your help and Aitch thanks for your help.

Late at nigh now so I most likely come back tomorrow.

[ttuuxxx]

Well half success. It certainly are in one menu now but not in the one
for setting run action. And if I start with the vlc and goto a directory with files to play then it fail to play them. The program seems to be ok but nothing happens. So something goes wrong still.

I have to find the online site with all the examples again and see if that one ask for application from within seamonkey and if that allow to activate VLC in any way.

So near or close and not closure. Frustrating.

Progress finally. Not a cigar but almost.

I managed to set run actions for avi, wmv, mpg, flv and .rm files
to different players. gxine and VLC

I should try to get more codex for gxine cause it fails on some streaming videos from TV stations.

And unfortunate VLC failed on .rm but gxine did work on them so that was a good thing.

I had hoped VLC could take .rm but not those I had.

Ttuxx thanks for your help and Aitch thanks for your help.

Late at nigh now so I most likely come back tomorrow.

Hey nooby

Before we say it "Failed", Lets have a look at the stations you were trying, Can you post the links please, Lets not forget your a nooby and aren't that Linux savvy yet, But soon I bet. This VLC doesn't have the VLC plugin for mozilla, I should compile that, So there are other ways to view websites. If mplayer or xine can do it so can VLC, I haven't came across a site I couldn't view a video stream yet with VLC.
ttuuxxx

[nooby]

Yes I managed to make realplayer take BBC which failed before
you provided RP. So very greatful for that.

Unfortunately the streaming service is local due to copyright. So
you can only test it if you live in Sweden.

nyhetskanalen.se which then redirect to anytime something.

I guess they use a media player thing.

The ironic thing is that Bogdan of Nimblex fame he has built in
the needed thing in Nimblex 2008. So if I was not such a noob
I could probably start up Nimblex and go to the parts that take
care of plugins and make a copy of how he does it.

Most likely he has some Roumanian similar streaming service
that he got motivated to have in his Nimblex.

I'm not sure that slax linux has it. And Nimblex looks very much
like slax to me.

I have tried to find an international service that have same needs
but I am too noob to know how to get it.

I set a bookmark on a site wich had many different test of players?

Had they streaming too. What was the url now?

[recycler]

cpu 700mhz, ram 512mb
VLC mem 21% cpu 5%
Gxine mem 30% cpu 11%

playing an mp3 by the blue aeroplanes (no visualisation) with visuals the cpu use was around 80%

[edoc]

Getting two dependency errors on my wife's PC ... the worst place for that to happen!

/usr/lib/vlc/access/libcdda_plugin.so missing: libcddb.so.2

/usr/lib/vlc/gui/libwxwidgets_plugin.so missing: libcdio.so.7

[ttuuxxx]

Getting two dependency errors on my wife's PC ... the worst place for that to happen!

/usr/lib/vlc/access/libcdda_plugin.so missing: libcddb.so.2

/usr/lib/vlc/gui/libwxwidgets_plugin.so missing: libcdio.so.7

Strange first report of libs missing, Ok here's your missing libs
Is she using puppy 4.0?
ttuuxxx

[battleshooter]

I'm guessing Edoc's wife's computer was running Puppy 3. I'm running Pups 3 and got the same error message. I used the libs you provided, but as VLC was compiled on Puppy 4, problems arise naturally on 3.

I'm getting this when I open roll my mouse over audio or video:

Code: Select all

(.:636): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_menu_attach_to_widget: assertion `GTK_IS_MENU (menu)' failed

When I click Settings-Switch interface-Wxwidgets- VLC crashes and in console leaves the message "Segmentation fault" Is that normal? (Not sarcasm)

I don't know if you're really interested in these errors as VLC was compiled for Pup4, but I'd thought I'd just report them. Thanks again.

[battleshooter]

BTW, has anyone figured out how to enable wma, wmv, etc. files with VLC? Or is this another dysfunctionality using Pup3?

[mikeb]

has anyone figured out how to enable wma, wmv, etc. files with VLC?

these are handled by the compiled in ffmpeg.

I been using vlc 0.8.6c for the past year on puppy and both usually play fine but I have noticed recently certain webtv stations that used to play now do not (nasa for example)....these are stations that use wmv so I suspect that microsoft have done something to the codec format to make them unplayable on non media player software....it's what they do now and then.

If so, then a new vlc/ffmpeg version will be needed to get around this problem.

Regfards

mike

[playdayz]

Thank you for this one ttuuxxx. I was looking at media players because beep and audacious (and xmms) made me mad by not playing aac+ streams--mainly I was looking for audio players but this vlc plays video too without extra overhead. It plays aac+ audio streams. What I like best is that the memory usage is *extremely* low, significantly lower than gxine (or xine) and realplayer/helixplayer (which is also a good player imho). It reminds me of my favorite foobar2000 on windows. It is my player of choice now--I like it so much I am trying to compile 0.9.2 (which appears to be the next version after 0.8.6i (???) Do you happen to have the config command line that made it compile--it configures for me but the compile fails with "no utf8 charset conversion on this platform." I think that has to do with NLS but disabling NLS does not fix it. Anyway, it's a good one and thanks again.

[mikeb]

http://repository.slacky.eu/slackware-1 ... vlc/0.9.1/