Problem with vlc-nox

[SaiyanRiku]

Hi,
I tried to install vlc-nox on Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid, but when I try to read a media, I get only sound but no video.
I get this error :

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[00000381] main interface error: no interface module matched "screensaver,none" [00000381] main interface error: no suitable interface module [00000001] main libvlc error: interface "screensaver,none" initialization failed [00000001] main libvlc:

So my question is if is possible to read video by installing only vlc-nox?

Thanks for your help !

[xtophe]

You should be able to "see" the video with the Ascii Art module (AA) or the colored ascii art module (caca)
You could also try on the frame buffer but i don't think the module is in ubuntu package

[SaiyanRiku]

Sorry,
In fact, I don't expose my problem correctly ! :S
I'm building a GTK software based on LibVLC ! (you can have a look here http://www.freetuxtv.org/screenshots/freetuxtv.png) ^^
The video integration works fine when the vlc package is installed, but with vlc-nox package I just have the sound in my GUI.

The question is how to use vlc without installing the QT libraries.

Any ideas?

Thanks

PS: I succeed to read video with vlc-nox and vlc-plugin-sdl but the video integration doesn't works !

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Setting the drawable only works with the X video outputs (X11, Xvideo and OpenGL-over-GLX). That is unavoidable as the drawable is the XID of an X window. For the time being, that plugin is in the vlc Debian package. So I'm afraid your application needs to indirectly depend on libqt4, until/unless you convince the Debian multimedia maintainers to further split their VLC binary packages.

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

As an alternative, you can use the virtual memory video output (which should be part of vlc-nox), and send the result as an image to the X server yourself.

[SaiyanRiku]

So in fact, it's a problem with Debian's packages? Not about VLC?
VLC could allow me to make my GUI independent from QT, but not with the Debian packages?

Could you tell me more about you're alternative? I don't see what do you mean...

Thanks you very much

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

The X11 video output is in the same package as the Qt4 UI, that's all.

The alternative is to use the vmem video output but that involves handling the X11 client protocol part yourself.

[xtophe]

You can fill a wishlist debian bug asking the maintaners (including me) to further split the package. It's true that historitically it was not a problem as only vlc was using libvlc but it's less true nowdays

[SaiyanRiku]

It's done and posted here : http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=513177
Thanks for all