VLC with Knoppix

[jochma]

Hello,

I want to realize a little project:
I would like to stream a videosignal that comes from a DV-Camera via firewire-connection.
Normally, I'm using Windows XP on an Acer Travelmate 4670. But then I read on the internet, that streaming a firwiresignal is only possible with Linux.
So I tried a DVD-version of Knoppix and it does work. But I couldn't get VideoLan to run. I unpacked the file "vlc-0.8.6d.tar.gz" and tried to enter ./vlc in the commandline in the unpacked folder as described in the documentation. But I always got error messages. I suppose that the problem is, that there isn't an executable file called vlc in this directory. Or is it necessary to compile the program first?

Do I use the correct file?

Later, when VLC runs, I will need to implement the follwing to files to use the firewire-connection of my laptop. How can I inluce these?
libraw1394-1.3.0.tar.gz
libavc1394-0.5.3.tar.gz

Thank you
Joachim

[ctrl-alt-delete]

most programs are installed as following (given that you have all the dependencies)

./configure
make
make install

now it's a long time since i've used Knoppix so i don't know which packaging manager it uses, if you can tell me then i can probably post the command to download it from there

btw, i'm a LONG-time Fedora user!