I was trying to run the latest nightly build and it was repeatedly crashing on launch on my Mac. I took a look at the Console output and it somehow suggested that VLC was looking for libtheora.
I compiled and installed it (with its sister, libogg) and now the nightly build runs like a charm...
Am-I the only one who didn't know I had to install these binaries in order to get the latest 0.8.4 nightly builds to run??? Am-I missing something obvious???
It looks to me like these libraries are required and were forgotten in the package (and the developers didn't notice because they have them installed on their Mac anyway
).The nightly builds don't mention any such thing in the read-me and I haven't found anything in this group either.
It might be a bug, but the procedure for submitting bugs is not so clear to me... It looks like I have to first mention it here
Here are the repro steps anyway:
- download the latest nightly build for MacOSX (2005-09-21)
- drag the icon of VLC on your desktop
- launch the app (I'm running Tiger 10.4.2 on a dual 2GHz G5, 2GB RAM
the app crashes...
- look at the crash log and find something like:
Library not loaded: /Users/videolan/vlc-nightly-unstable/extras/contrib/lib/libtheora.0.dylib
Referenced from: /User/Me/Desktop/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/lib/vlc_libshout.dylib
Reason: image not found
Workaround:
download, compile and install libogg-1.1.2
download, compile and install libtheora-1.0alpha5
Launch VLC and rejoice
Corentin
