vlc anyone?

llywelyn · n00b Joined: 30 Sep 2004 Posts: 45

What is required to get vlc working from portage on PPC?

I noticed it was marked ~PPC, and also noticed that PPC seems to be supported by the developers, so I went ahead and attempted to emerge it.

It failes (for me anyway) at <workdir>/modules/video_filter complaining that a bunch of stuff is undeclared in function "MergeAltivec" ... very mysterious.
I added the "altivec" USE flag but that didn't make any difference.

Here are my other USE flags in case they will help:

JoseJX · Retired Dev Joined: 28 Apr 2002 Posts: 2774

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=82128

Since none of the devs have been able to test this, I'd appreciate some feedback as to what worked/didn't work for you.
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Massimo B. · Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2006 3:31 pm Post subject:

In my case I can't get vlc installed because graphiz doesn't emerge:

Fugee47 · Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 12:59 pm Post subject:

I emerged vlc last night, without any problems/errors.

here are my useflags:

USE="-fPIC -ldap pci fbcon objc gcj mikmod dvdread encode altivec a52 python aac wxwindows gtk gtk2 qt kde dvd alsa cdr hal aalib cdparanoia cpudetection matroska oss theora -nas sqlite mozdevelop svg"

fb · l33t Joined: 08 Dec 2003 Posts: 636 Location: New Zealand

I emerged vlc sometime last week, I think I had to keyword
libebml as well as vlc.
I have an iMac G4, my CFLAGS are as follow:

nokilli · Apprentice Joined: 25 Feb 2004 Posts: 196

If you're running Gnome I can highly recommend the built-in Totem Movie Player. I have VLC installed on Mac OS X on this machine and it is barely able to deal with the various AVI's I throw at it, while Totem just totally excels in playback. I mean, it's night and day; no comparison between the two.

Maybe VLC under Linux would fare better, but I'm not sure I understand why that would be so.

fb · l33t Joined: 08 Dec 2003 Posts: 636 Location: New Zealand

I am a KDE person. I have no problem with vlc on OSX. Only on linux.
And I am not talking about movies usually but about music.
Ogg and mp3 just don't play. I have to check on my x86 box
but I have basically the same problem open a music file and sit
here waiting....... Nothing happens.
I have a feeling something fundamental escapes me but what?

At the moment I am test driving kaffeine, after having used juk and
xmms. They all do all right in most respect. I will probably also test
amarok quite a bit before settling.

grazie · n00b Joined: 14 Nov 2005 Posts: 61

Notice it's still ~ppc in portage, but it Installed OK for me, However I've got the following problem,

davidgurvich · Veteran Joined: 23 Apr 2004 Posts: 1063

I can emerge vlc with no problem. Actually using it is another story. The plugin crashes every browser. The player doesn't play anything and seg faults.