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Dear Experts, I am trying to play an .mp3 file using vlc on linux(Debian distribution). However, I have been unsuccessful. No Audio and I get the below errors. Any idea how I can resolve this issue. Below is .configure. [00000001] main libvlc debug: libvlc was configured with ./configure '--enable-x...

Below is the output of ./vlc -vv. And I have verified /dev/dsp exists. And I am able to run binary version of vlc(downloaded from videolan.org) and hear Audio. However, the compiled version on Linux gives me the error below. I have --disabled-alsa in my ./configure build. Would that be a problem?. L...

Any clues?..Please help.

Dear Experts, I successfully built vlc-0.9.2 on linux debian. When I try to run vlc compiled out of about vlc.c, I get the following error: [00000001] main libvlc debug: translation test: code is "C" ... [00000345] oss audio output error: cannot open audio device (/dev/dsp) [00000345] main...

Hello j-b,
I edited distro.mak to extras/contrib to remove .goom2k4.
Did make again, it seems "make" is skipping goom and rest of the build is on.
Is this the correct thing to do to disable goom?

I am on Debian eth linux distribution on coLinux.
Thanks for your help.

Hi j-b,

Thanks for the reply. I am newbie to this whole build.
Could you tell me how do I disable goom for extras/contrib build?. Do I use ./configure --disable goom or something like that before I do the make in extras/contrib?

Thanks for your help

Dear Experts, I am trying to build vlc 0.9.2 on Linux (coLinux). While I try to build extras/contrib, I get the following error in "goom" Could you folks please help me to resolve this build error?. Do you I need to get latest "goom" or configure it differently?, if so, how do I ...

I forgot to mention, I modified vlc.c in bin folder for vlc installation. The error I get is for this source file. int main( int i_argc, char *ppsz_argv[] ) { int i_ret = 0; libvlc_exception_t excp; printf("Begin to initialize"); libvlc_instance_t *inst; int item; char *filename = "ab...

Dear Experts, I have a built vlc 0.9.1 on coLinux. I have used the following configuration: [00000001] main libvlc debug: VLC media player - version 0.9.1 Grishenko - (c) 1996-2008 the VideoLAN team [00000001] main libvlc debug: libvlc was configured with ./configure '--disable-hal' '--disable-dbus'...