The VideoLAN Forums

and if you issue the command
? What happens then?

Thank you for the report.

Indeed, the 9.3 repo seems to be broken. On the other hand, anyhow we will drop 9.3 support soon (as novell does so too by the end of April).

Is there a reason not to upgrade for you to another version?

Hi, for suse, you don't have to worry about rpms and dependencies yourself. Please follow the instructions on http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-suse.html and add an installation source using yast2. after that, in yast software management, you can select VLC in the list and let it install, includi...

Hi,

it seems your installation is in a very broken state.
Can you please issue, as root on a terminal, the command
then please paste me the whole output here.

If you built VLC yourself, it's your own fault if you uninstall (or upgrade with soname change) libraries your programs depends of. If you install from your distro, their package or package manager is brocken and you should report that to them. The package manager of SuSE (as backend is simply rpm ...

jackcool, that's basically not possible, not even under windows. In windows, you're just 'forced to believe' that it's true. The embedded plugin in windows is an ActiveX that is being installed (after a simple 'are you sure' question. These ActiveX can be from 0k up to MBs, and contain whatever some...

you should be able to search for libdc1384 in yast too and install it exactly like you installed vlc.

It is either on the CDs / DVD (I think it really is) or you find it in the online repository of openSUSE 10.2 (which you could have activated during the setup).

DimStar

Did you let the package manager (yast) handle the installation?

Becuase it looks like your installation was forced over the dependency check of rpm.

Try installing libdc1394 in plus to your installation and this error should be gone. Should there be others, please again report the error here.

arnumib,

That is a quiet strange behaviour of your box, but I'm sure we can solve it (somehow).

First, can you give us some output of your machine?
Open a terminal and try to start vlc from there

just type in the terminal window
and copy the output here. This might give us some clues.

linux-dvd

The exact instructions what you need to do (no GURU repository needed, no PackMan needed.. just the project's own VLC Repo), can be found at:
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-suse.html

I assume by 32b you refer to the 32bit version of VLC? I don't know of any other problems (except, as pointed out: be sure to use all the libraries and packages from the VLC repository, found at http://download.videolan.org/SuSE/10.2 ) then you should not have any problems. Should there BE problems,...

Actually, I pointed out to use libmpeg2 from the VLC repo (which is completely independent to guru and packman).

But if libmpeg2 exists in Guru and that one is working, tant-mieux.

Spegru, I can only guess so far (I'm maintaining the packages for VLC on SUSE, and use 10.2 on x86_64 and i586. . both work for sure). The problem with lockups on DVD play is most found if you have installed the libmpeg2 from PM. please check the version using rpm -q libmpeg2 if there is a .pm. in t...

The discussion is about the VLC from the PackMan repository, NOT the one out of the VLC Repository.

by following the instructions at http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-suse.html all dependencies should get solved without problems.

Hi,

From the error in your logfile: Did you install the automake packages?

This issue sounds like one I already heard several times now. Most likely you're also subscribed to PackMan repository and most likely you have the libmpeg2 from the PM repo in your system. There were several reports that the libmpeg2 from PM breaks the installation of VLC in this way. you can check...

Arch, by 'suse 10', do you refer to SUSE Linux 10.0 or to a SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10? for the latter, please be sure to use the 10.1 repository! SLED is NOT SUSE Linux 10.0, but is binary compatible to the SUSE Linux 10.1 (is a bit confusing) The dependenices should then completely be solved...

Hmm.. I think you might be right; SuSE 9.3 does not support repo-dm repositories yet in YaST. I'll try to create the correct media.1 and control files for Yast on 9.3, but this might take a while, as I'm on another half of the earth now than my developer environment. For the time being, you can down...

Can you verify that all the packages you use are the ones from the VLC Repo? Maybe post a list of ,pm. RPMs. you can get with rpm -qa | grep ".pm." Maybe I see something else that's known to cause such behaviour. And in plus, as a small test, be sure to delete the ~/.vlc directory, in case...

Glad this worked for you.

How did you install VLC?

Using the RPMs from the VLC Project? wat does 'rpm -q vlc' give you?
I could see that you have ffmpeb and a52dec from the PackMan repository, and not from the VLC Repo. Can you try to change this and see if it helps?

You're not alone with this. It seems to be a strange interaction problem between VLC and Gnome in specific versions (I think it started with 2.14)

I think there was no solution comming up yet... but I have not checked VLC 0.9.0 yet to verify if the next version would be free of this error.

Dominique

try to start
vlc -vvv
from the commandline and open a file. The output could help you and us giving some clues, where it fails.

Most likely one of the libraries got replace (ffmpeg?)

rleeson, slang-utf8.so.1 is not a valid dependency of VLC for SLED10. Slang 1 was used in older versions of SuSE only. SLED10 is SUSE Linux 10.1 compatible, NOT 10.0! I just tried installing VLC 0.8.6a on a SLED10. There are very few packages that are not shipped with SLED which are still required (...

btw: neither xine-lib nor w32codec is required for VLC to run porperly.

For further help, please post the output of the command

rpm -q vlc ffmpeg libmpeg2