Fresh Gentoo install and VLC

[DrekAlots]

I followed this guide here: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_VLC_media_player

However, VLC doesn't seem to work wil .wmv files. I can get audio but no video if I choose OpenGL as the output type. DVD's I have to choose another type of output. So my question is how can I get the .wmv playback to work and is there an easier way to get video and audio playback without having to fiddle with the output types every time i try and watch a video file?

[Clad in Sky]

Hm... for me it just works to type
vlc foo.wmv and vlc will play it.
Or I start up vlc's frontend, drag and drop the file I want onto it and voila - it plays.

Perhaps you're missing some useflags or your wmv is corrupted or too new for your version of vlc.
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[DrekAlots]

Thanks for your help. The system is running the desktop profile and i've pasted the make.conf, package.use and emerge output below. Also pasted below is the output when I run vlc video.wmv from the command line.

emerge
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies ... done!
[ebuild R ] media-video/vlc-0.8.6i-r2 USE="X a52 alsa avahi cdda dvd esd flac gnome gnutls hal libnotify matroska mp3 mpeg ncurses ogg opengl png sdl skins svg svga truetype vcd vlm vorbis win32codecs wxwindows xml xv -3dfx -aalib (-altivec) -arts -bidi -cddb -corba -daap -dc1394 -debug -directfb -dts -dvb -fbcon -ggi -httpd -jack -libcaca -lirc -live -modplug -musepack -nsplugin -optimisememory -oss -rtsp -samba -sdl-image -seamonkey -shout -speex -stream -theora -upnp -v4l -x264 -xinerama -xosd -xulrunner" 0 kB

Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB

package.use
x11-libs/wxGTK unicode X
media-video/vlc X a52 alsa dvd ffmpeg mp3 mpeg win32codecs ncurses opengl sdl skins truetype wxwindows xv svga flac cdda vcd matroska mad gnutls aac vlm

make.conf
# These settings were set by the catalyst build script that automatically
# built this stage.
# Please consult /etc/make.conf.example for a more detailed example.
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe"
CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"
# WARNING: Changing your CHOST is not something that should be done lightly.
# Please consult http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/change-chost.xml before changing.
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"

MAKEOPTS="-j2"

GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/gentoo-distfiles/ ftp://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/gentoo-distfiles/ ftp://ftp.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo "

SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"

USE="gnome hald avahi gtk dbus mmx sse sse2 -arts -kde -qt -qt3 -qt4"

INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse"

VIDEO_CARDS="i810"

error output
VLC media player 0.8.6i Janus

(.:6339): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "murrine",

(.:6339): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "murrine",

(.:6339): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "murrine",

(.:6339): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "murrine",

(.:6339): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "murrine",

(.:6339): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "murrine",

(.:6339): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "murrine",

(.:6339): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "murrine",

(.:6339): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "murrine",

(.:6339): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "murrine",

(.:6339): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "murrine",

(.:6339): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "murrine",

(.:6339): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "murrine",
[00000493] dmo decoder error: can't set DMO output type
[00000493] dmo decoder error: DecOpen failed
[00000493] dmo decoder error: can't set DMO output type
[00000493] dmo decoder error: DecOpen failed
Xlib: unexpected async reply (sequence 0xe65)!

[Clad in Sky]

These are my useflags:

media-video/vlc-0.8.6i-r2 USE="X a52 alsa avahi cdda dvd esd gnome hal libnotify mp3 mpeg ncurses ogg opengl png sdl svg truetype vorbis win32codecs wxwindows xml xv -3dfx -aalib (-altivec) -arts -bidi -cddb -corba -daap -dc1394 -debug -directfb -dts -dvb -fbcon -flac -ggi -gnutls -httpd -jack -libcaca -lirc -live -matroska -modplug -musepack -nsplugin -optimisememory -oss -rtsp -samba -sdl-image -seamonkey -shout -skins -speex -stream -svga -theora -upnp -v4l -vcd -vlm -x264 -xinerama -xosd -xulrunner" 0 kB

They look the same, so this can't be the problem...

I just have to type in vlc in the commandline and the player will appear in Gnome (alternatively I can choose the player from the Gnome menu).
Sorry, I have no idea.
You might want to recompile vlc, but I'm not sure whether that helps
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Kali Ma
Now it's autumn of the aeons
Dance with your sword
Now it's time for the harvest