vlc 0.8.1 now in portage

dtmf · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 18 Jan 2005 Posts: 124

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

Nanoy · Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 3:26 am Post subject:

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 · Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 5:33 am Post subject:

Raest · n00b Joined: 06 Mar 2004 Posts: 12

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 · n00b Joined: 10 Dec 2004 Posts: 43

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:

Nanoy · Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2005 6:08 pm Post subject:

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 · n00b Joined: 10 Dec 2004 Posts: 43

Nanoy · Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2005 11:05 pm Post subject:

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

Ausmosis · n00b Joined: 10 Dec 2004 Posts: 43

Nanoy · Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2005 12:08 am Post subject:

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

gentoo_lan · Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2005 1:36 am Post subject:

Ausmosis · n00b Joined: 10 Dec 2004 Posts: 43

The DJ · n00b Joined: 06 Nov 2002 Posts: 74

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 · n00b Joined: 06 Nov 2002 Posts: 74

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

dtmf · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 18 Jan 2005 Posts: 124

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.

gentoo_lan · Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2005 7:07 am Post subject:

tnt · Veteran Joined: 27 Feb 2004 Posts: 1222

bocacorazon · n00b Joined: 07 May 2004 Posts: 31

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 · n00b Joined: 07 May 2004 Posts: 31

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