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Could you program a (switchable) extension working like "IF TMP changed THEN IF change = sympathic mediafile, THEN play that new mediafile" ..... :?: Chrome/Chromium browser in my (puppy)Linux does not support mediaplayers, only flashplayer and I like the Chrom* speed and stability especia...

Meantime using puppy 510 and VLC; Puppyans showed me a way to make Firefox use it. Most files/streams now working fairly well, but still sometimes blurring video screen and/or losing sound, plus (rare) freezes on seemingly ordinary *.wmv and *.avi.

Meantime I abandoned SUSE ..... and took Puppy Lupu 501 instead. No luck yet with VLC in Firefox, although mediapayer connectivity addon duly installed. With SUSE already, got reported at download of Pulseaudio: "basic files libiconv perlapi-5.10.0 missing" ..... and same now with Puppy. h...

Pulseaudio disappeared from setting options of my VLC player ..... several reinstalls of both without improvement.

Back to ALSA 1.0.23 again, no use.

Every time I have tried to use Pulse Audio with Opensuse, I have had many headaches. The error message that I get from VLC suggests that I upgrade alsa-lib to version 1.0.24 because of a known alsa bug. The problem is that alsa 1.0.24 does not exist that I know of. Alsa 1.0.23 is the newest, which ...

alsa-lib 1.0.24 exists in the alsa-lib development tree. In your case, I assume alsa-lib 1.0.22 should be sufficient though (alsa-lib 1.0.24 fixes another bug). I am afraid 1.0.22 will not .... as I already downloaded and tried 1.0.23 (from Suse Factory) without improvement. Tried to find 1.0.24 on...

Maybe installing and/or activating in VLC options "pulseaudio" will help; problem seems related:

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Second thoughts ....; friends on Nedlinux Forum convinced me to try again. I installed VLC using the vlc.ymp one-click installer; did not see "impulse" in VLC options so installed impulse-audio through Yast, then looked again, found and selected impulse. Looked some 30-40 clips on Web. Mpg...

Thanks a lot, Rémi; matching info reached me today on Nedlinux forum. I had a many different distros on board the last few years and finally prefer to keep SUSE .... so will have to wait for probably a year or so to make proper use of VLC which I so desire, instead of the usual handful of traditiona...

Sad; found no newer remedy. VLC uninstalled and SUSE 11.2 degraded by means of upgrade install .... all standard programs back and for the time being I will not try anything more with VLC.

Really a pity, I found this the best of all players during the moments it functioned.

Sorry, I have to correct myself: all the things I did, seem to only defer the failure. After looking 10 or more videos on web, old error reappears. Message from VLCplayer: Potential ALSA version problem: VLC failed to initialize your sound output device (if any). Please update alsa-lib to version 1....

Additional info: extra KOffice parts,
- KOffice docs
- KOffice plato
made "old" problems reappear.

I do not know the use of these 2 but had installed them for curiosity. Now deleted of course.

I got VLC player working fine now on SUSE 11.2, rather old computer 1GHz, 780MB RAM, 2HD 80GB each with swap partitions 2.3GB each. For the purpose, however, I had to kill quite some other software (and believe me I have been busy trying to keep all of them): - Removed ALL other "players" ...

I followed http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-suse.html for install of VLC media player on SUSE 10.2 and got various error messages, a.o (I translate from Dutch): - a conflict about vlc==0.8.6.h-4.4(vlc) requires te removal of still to be installed vlc-0.8.6.h-4.4.i586[20080821-211855] - libmatros...