VLC on Fedora 9 PPC build on PS3, gui won't open

[jetfire4]

I installed Fedora 9 on my PS3, the first thing I took care of was uninstalling the pulse audio plug in for alsa. That got the sound to work. Then I installed VLC from the livna repository with all the dependencies and it won't load up. I tried the -VVV --listfiles command in terminal and it shows no errors except the vlcrc config file hasn't been created, probably because the gui hasn't opened yet. So it seems to open in terminal but not the gui. Any ideas?

[slartibartfast]

Hi,

I got the same problem. I am also using Fedora 9 but on a Mac Mini G4 PPC (1.25 GHz, 512 MB). After installing VLC 0.8.6g from the Livna repositories I tried to start the player by the icon from applications menu but appearently nothing happened. When starting VLC from shell I just get the welcome message ("VLC media player 0.8.6g Janus") but after some seconds I fall back on the command line.

Here is what I get when using the verbose option:

# vlc -v 2
VLC media player 0.8.6g Janus
[00000001] main private warning: This doesn't look like a valid plugins cache (language changed)
[00000001] main private warning: cannot load module `/usr/lib/vlc/access/libaccess_dv_plugin.so' (/usr/lib/vlc/access/libaccess_dv_plugin.so: undefined symbol: raw1394_set_iso_handler)
[00000001] main private warning: config file /home/username/.vlc/vlcrc does not exist yet

Bye,
Slartibartfast

[kwizart]

For now i cannot see any errors from the vlc packaging side.

A common problem with vlc currently is the Video ouput module taking much CPU time .
This can affect audio experience (pulsaudio usually - whereas this isn't related to PA).
This can be solved by setting video capability correctly (activating EXA accelMethod in xorg.conf )

But for the ppc case i don't know that much. I expect that altivec may be a problem if not present on theses configurations.

You may need to use
gdb vlc
run

If not possible to have a error correct message somehow.

[jetfire4]

Slar, same exact error here when i run -v 2, kwiz, i ran the gdb vlc and run, ended up with a sigsev segmentation fault with alot of lines that said no debugging symbols found. Incidentally, shame on Fedora for not fixing pulse audio by this version, after 8 that is the first thing i would expect them to fix, pathetic. And can anyone tell me how to turn off the security feature that locks out a non-root user out after idle for 10 minutes. More unsolicited security features, vlc doesn't work and pulse audio will still take alot of work to get working, all I can say is that's so gay.

[jetfire4]

One thing tho, this version loads up faster and programs do run and close faster.

[slartibartfast]

Hi, people,

here's the output when using "-vvv":

$ vlc -vvv
VLC media player 0.8.6g Janus
[00000001] main private debug: checking builtin modules
[00000001] main private debug: checking plugin modules
[00000001] main private debug: loading plugins cache file
/home/username/.vlc/cache/plugins-0404be.dat
[00000001] main private debug: recursively browsing `/usr/lib/vlc'
[00000001] main private debug: module bank initialized, found 237 modules
[00000001] main private debug: opening config file /home/username/.vlc/vlcrc
[00000001] main private warning: config file /home/username/.vlc/vlcrc does not
exist yet
[00000001] main private debug: CPU has capabilities AltiVec FPU
[00000001] main private debug: looking for memcpy module: 2 candidates
[00000001] main private debug: using memcpy module "memcpyaltivec"
[00000309] main playlist debug: waiting for thread completion
[00000309] main playlist debug: thread 1221612720 (playlist) created at priority
0 (playlist/playlist.c:184)
[00000310] main private debug: waiting for thread completion
[00000310] main private debug: thread 1232098480 (preparser) created at priority
0 (playlist/playlist.c:210)
[00000311] main interface debug: looking for interface module: 1 candidate
[00000311] main interface debug: using interface module "hotkeys"
[00000311] main interface debug: thread 1242584240 (interface) created at
priority 0 (interface/interface.c:231)
[00000313] main interface debug: looking for interface module: 1 candidate
[00000313] main interface debug: using interface module "screensaver"
[00000313] main interface debug: thread 1253070000 (interface) created at
priority 0 (interface/interface.c:231)
[00000315] main interface debug: looking for interface module: 5 candidates
[00000315] main interface debug: using interface module "wxwidgets"
[00000315] main interface debug: thread 1278600368 (manager) created at priority
0 (interface/interface.c:216)

By the way, I am using just Fedora's default repositories and the ones from Livna.

Bye,
Slartibartfast

[jetfire4]

Incidentally, I tried opening both on root and the secondary user, so on root I don't see how there could be any permission issues. This is with software and development tools checked off at installation. I can't believe I'm using all these nerdy words "root" "permissions" about what should be a simple thing to do, amazing waste of time to get involved in.

[jetfire4]

The problem is some bizarre thing called "wxwidgets" or gtkwidgets. That's what's blocking it from opening up. Vlc will open with a subprogram called 'svlc'. So copy and paste a shortcut to that executable and it will work.

[slartibartfast]

Hi, jetfire,

you're right, I found the same workaround here:
http://www.fedoraforum.de/viewtopic.php?f=18&p=86134 (just german)
and
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forum/sho ... ge=3&pp=15 (currently on page 3)

Bye,
Slartibartfast

[kwizart]

wxvlc is usually the symlink for wxGTK gui - it should work with it also

[swtrse]

Will this solved soon?
Since svlc is not working very good. (If you want to open the preferences svlc got closed)
And sound is only noise (well that could be an pulseaudio problen and not an vlc one but since system sound in gnome is working...)

[flyingpengwin]

Hey sorry to reopen this topic but just to let people know that if you update fedora it will fix the vlc problem.
Now i have the issue of fixing the audio which i have no idea... >.>