vlc 0.8.1 now in portage

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dtmf · Post by **dtmf** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 10:23 pm

Where would I find the package.use and package.keywords??

dtmf wrote:

after running the command this is what i got.

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These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild UD] media-video/vlc-0.6.2 [0.8.1] -3dfx +X +aac -aalib -alsa (-altivec) +arts -debug -dvb +dvd -dvdread +esd -fbcon -ggi +gnome +gtk +imlib -joystick +kde -lirc +mad -matroska* -mozilla +ncurses +nls +oggvorbis +oss +qt +sdl -slp +svga +truetype -v4l -wxwindows* -xosd +xv +xvid 0 kB

Total size of downloads: 0 kB

Did you add

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media-video/vlc ~x86

to your package.keywords.

It looks like it is trying to downgrade your package. Also you need to add wxwindows and ffmpeg to your package.use for vlc:

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media-video/vlc wxwindows ffmpeg

Nanoy · Post by **Nanoy** » Tue Mar 22, 2005 3:26 am

You need to create them in /etc/portage/. the simplest way is simply to add wxwindows, matroska and ffmpeg to your /etc/make.conf use flags, then "#nano -w /etc/portage/package.keywords" and add "media-video/vlc ~x86"

gentoo_lan · Post by **gentoo_lan** » Tue Mar 22, 2005 5:33 am

Nanoy wrote:You need to create them in /etc/portage/. the simplest way is simply to add wxwindows, matroska and ffmpeg to your /etc/make.conf use flags, then "#nano -w /etc/portage/package.keywords" and add "media-video/vlc ~x86"

It depends if you want every package to use those flags or only vlc. If you want vlc only to use those flags then you need to:

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nano -w /etc/portage/package.use

Add the lines I told you above and save the file. Then do what he suggested above and unmask vlc.

Raest · Post by **Raest** » Tue Mar 22, 2005 6:07 pm

I was having the same problem as a number of others, missing codecs, no gui. Recompiled with all the right use flags and voila , vlc is back to its working self =)

Just wanted to say thanks to the various posters in this thread for detailing what use flags were needed and pointing to the relevant material on VLC's website.

These forums are one of the reasons I'm such a fan on gentoo.

Ausmosis · Post by **Ausmosis** » Thu Mar 24, 2005 2:37 pm

Ok here's a strange one..... I have VLC working fine when playing music DVD's such as the Eagles hell freezes over. Video and audio are great, however when I play a movie DVD video is fine but I get no audio. ANyone have a suggestion? here is what "emerge -pv vlc" gives me:

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media-video/vlc-0.8.1  -3dfx +X -a52 -aac -aalib +alsa (-altivec) +arts -bidi* -cdda -cddb -cdio -debug -dts -dvb +dvd +esd -fbcon -ffmpeg +flac -freetype -ggi -gnutls -hal -httpd +joystick -libcaca +lirc -live +mad -matroska* +mozilla* +mpeg +ncurses +nls -ogg +oggvorbis +opengl +oss -stream +svg +svga -theora -unicode -v4l -vcd -vlm -wxwindows* +xosd +xv 0 kB

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Nanoy · Post by **Nanoy** » Thu Mar 24, 2005 6:08 pm

Do you have a audio cable from your cdrom to your sound card? I'm not sure if you can make vlc play audio through the ide cable, but I know totem can.

Ausmosis · Post by **Ausmosis** » Thu Mar 24, 2005 10:54 pm

Nanoy wrote:Do you have a audio cable from your cdrom to your sound card? I'm not sure if you can make vlc play audio through the ide cable, but I know totem can.

Yep, cable is conected. It's definately a VLC issue because audio works fine with any other application such as mplayer, xmms etc. Playing a music DVD is fine. It's only when I try a movie DVD that I get no audio. Very strange....

Nanoy · Post by **Nanoy** » Thu Mar 24, 2005 11:05 pm

Try adding matroska to your use flag, its a wild guess on my part, but it couldn't hurt

Ausmosis · Post by **Ausmosis** » Thu Mar 24, 2005 11:16 pm

Nanoy wrote:Try adding matroska to your use flag, its a wild guess on my part, but it couldn't hurt

I actually did add matroska. Why it's showing that it's not installed is also strange. I added the following to my USE flag:

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USE="dvd nls bidi tryetype wxwindows imlib matroska faad png -mozilla" emerge vlc

Bidi, wxwindows and matroska have "*" next to them when I do "emerge -pv vlc" :

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media-video/vlc-0.8.1  -3dfx +X -a52 -aac -aalib +alsa (-altivec) +arts -bidi* -cdda -cddb -cdio -debug -dts -dvb +dvd +esd -fbcon -ffmpeg +flac -freetype -ggi -gnutls -hal -httpd +joystick -libcaca +lirc -live +mad -matroska* +mozilla* +mpeg +ncurses +nls -ogg +oggvorbis +opengl +oss -stream +svg +svga -theora -unicode -v4l -vcd -vlm -wxwindows* +xosd +xv 0 kB

Really strange!

Nanoy · Post by **Nanoy** » Fri Mar 25, 2005 12:08 am

Try adding them to /etc/make.conf and see if it will accept them there.

gentoo_lan · Post by **gentoo_lan** » Fri Mar 25, 2005 1:36 am

Ausmosis wrote:Ok here's a strange one..... I have VLC working fine when playing music DVD's such as the Eagles hell freezes over. Video and audio are great, however when I play a movie DVD video is fine but I get no audio. ANyone have a suggestion? here is what "emerge -pv vlc" gives me:
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media-video/vlc-0.8.1  -3dfx +X -a52 -aac -aalib +alsa (-altivec) +arts -bidi* -cdda -cddb -cdio -debug -dts -dvb +dvd +esd -fbcon -ffmpeg +flac -freetype -ggi -gnutls -hal -httpd +joystick -libcaca +lirc -live +mad -matroska* +mozilla* +mpeg +ncurses +nls -ogg +oggvorbis +opengl +oss -stream +svg +svga -theora -unicode -v4l -vcd -vlm -wxwindows* +xosd +xv 0 kB
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Add a52 to your use flags. That should solve your problem. I had the same issue and that fixed it.

Ausmosis · Post by **Ausmosis** » Fri Mar 25, 2005 2:28 am

gentoo_lan wrote: Add a52 to your use flags. That should solve your problem. I had the same issue and that fixed it.

Bingo!.... Thanks for that. Much appreciated

The DJ · Post by **The DJ** » Sat Mar 26, 2005 12:22 am

Great to see that some ppl are again committed to providing good ebuilds for VLC.

I have just updated our gentoo page with some improved instructions
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-gentoo.html

Also i saw someone mention an issue with skins. I suggest to add a keyword "skins". This option could then enable the skins2 config option. Be aware that the skins require BOTH wxwindows and imlib. Especially the first is not always forced by VLC which is a gross oversight of the maintainers of that part of the code in my eyes.

I also saw issues with ffmpeg reported by you guys. 2 things.
1: vlc requires 0.4.8
2: vlc needs to be told about the way ffmpeg was configured

--with-ffmpeg-lame on vlc's configure line if ffmpeg was compiled with lame support. same for zlib and faac (although that might not be in this version of vlc yet).

It's a very unfortunate system, but well, ffmpeg buildssystem basically sucks for not reporting back to applications how it was configured and compiled.

The DJ · Post by **The DJ** » Sat Mar 26, 2005 1:04 am

Oh and the stream USE word wasn't in the list of IUSE

dtmf · Post by **dtmf** » Tue Mar 29, 2005 3:53 am

Well I have a new problem with vlc. I am trying to update it in emerge world and i'm having a problem with that.

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root # emerge --pretend world

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating world dependencies \
!!! All ebuilds that could satisfy ">=media-video/ffmpeg-0.4.9_p20050226-r1" have been masked.
!!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request:
- media-video/ffmpeg-0.4.9_p20050226-r2 (masked by: ~x86 keyword)
- media-video/ffmpeg-0.4.9_p20050226-r1 (masked by: ~x86 keyword)

For more information, see MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man page or
section 2.2 "Software Availability" in the Gentoo Handbook.
!!!    (dependency required by "media-video/vlc-0.8.1-r1" [ebuild])


!!! Problem with ebuild media-video/vlc-0.8.1-r1
!!! Possibly a DEPEND/*DEPEND problem.

!!! Depgraph creation failed.

I have tried to emerge this may times and i am not sure what to do. I have done the whole ACCEPT_KEYWORD="~x86"

gentoo_lan · Post by **gentoo_lan** » Tue Mar 29, 2005 7:07 am

dtmf wrote:Well I have a new problem with vlc. I am trying to update it in emerge world and i'm having a problem with that.

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root # emerge --pretend world

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating world dependencies \
!!! All ebuilds that could satisfy ">=media-video/ffmpeg-0.4.9_p20050226-r1" have been masked.
!!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request:
- media-video/ffmpeg-0.4.9_p20050226-r2 (masked by: ~x86 keyword)
- media-video/ffmpeg-0.4.9_p20050226-r1 (masked by: ~x86 keyword)

For more information, see MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man page or
section 2.2 "Software Availability" in the Gentoo Handbook.
!!!    (dependency required by "media-video/vlc-0.8.1-r1" [ebuild])


!!! Problem with ebuild media-video/vlc-0.8.1-r1
!!! Possibly a DEPEND/*DEPEND problem.

!!! Depgraph creation failed.

I have tried to emerge this may times and i am not sure what to do. I have done the whole ACCEPT_KEYWORD="~x86"

You need to add

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media-video/ffmpeg ~x86

to your package.keywords.

tnt · Post by **tnt** » Fri Nov 11, 2005 2:36 am

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- - httpd     : Enables a web based interface for vlc

Is there any howto about using web based interface?

How to access it at all?

bocacorazon · Post by **bocacorazon** » Mon Nov 21, 2005 7:55 pm

I have a Hauppauge card, and on the videolan documentation I read that for these cards I need to pass --enable-pvr flag to .configure

How can I do this in the context of the emerge?
Do I need to create a custom ebuild?

bocacorazon · Post by **bocacorazon** » Tue Nov 22, 2005 4:24 pm

Well, I found out that the --enable-pvr config flag is activated by the dvb USE flag

vlc 0.8.1 now in portage

Words from the VLC dev.

VLC emerge -how to pass the --enable-pvr flag to .configure?

--enable-pvr FOLLOW UP