VLC 1.0.x on CentOS or RedHat

[dubak]

Hi everyone,
I've spent last two days searching for a solution how to install VLC 1.0.3 or the newest 1.0.4 on my CentOS 5.4 (or RHEL 5).
I haven't found any repositories offering the RPMs for the 1.0.x versions. The DAG repo only contains vlc 0.9.9, which causes me trouble ( very choppy playback when VLC is used as a server for streaming).
I've found the 1.0.3 rpm package at http://rpm.pbone.net. However after installation with all the requiered dependencies there are other problems. The GUI doesn't really work (I get the error messages about qt4 the and I'm not able to open any Menu dialog at all.
I've also tried to compile the 1.0.4 by myself from source, but again, this didn't help, because glibc > 2.7 is requiered. Unfortunatelly the latest glibc available for CentOS or RHEL is 2.5

So my question is - is there any way how to get VLC 1.0.3 or 1.0.4 to work on CentOS or RHEL ??

Many thanks for your help

kabud

[kdh]

I'm running 9.9 at the moment with good success on centos5.4..

What are you trying to do? Maybe I can get you working with 9.9.

You could make a post about in the Centos forums requesting a newer version.

[dubak]

Hi,
I'm running the the VLC on my CentOS system as a daemon to be able to stream the videos to my Dreambox 7025. The Dreambox has a VLC plugin, which should be compatible with VNC 1.0.3. Indeed when I was running the VNC 1.0.3 on my Windows laptop, everything worked fine. But my server is Linux and therefore I'd like to make it all work on Linux.
I mean, 9.9 works fine for me on CentOS as long an I use it for direct playback on the Linux machine. However when I use it in the role of server on the Linux machine to stream the video to the Dreambox, the playback is choppy.
After installing the 1.0.3 on the Linux server, even if on the other hand I'm not able to use the player anymore directly on the CentOS machine, the streaming works fine (but then again, only when no subtitles are used).
So I hope the solution would be to have proper 1.0.3 or 1.0.4 on CentOS.
I'll stick a post to the CentOS forum too.

Thanks for your help

kabud

[erotavlas_turbo]

Hi,

Have you solved the problem? I'm trying to install VLC on CentOS 5.4 but it's very hard expedition...

[dubak]

Hi,
yes, finally I've managed that. Just use the atrpms repository. There's even the newest 1.0.5 VLC and it installs without problems.

dubak

[erotavlas_turbo]

I have followed this guide http://atrpms.net/install.html but I get a error when I type yum update.
Have you installed only vlc rpm?

Thank

[dubak]

no, there were other dependencies, actually quite a lot. But I don't know them by hard. Sorry. You need to try...

[erotavlas_turbo]

Please can you tell me if you have followed a guide?

[dubak]

NO,I didn't follow any manual. I just added the atrpms to my repository for yum and then searched for the VLC package.
What problem do you have? Yum should tell you what are the other necessary packages as well as in case tehere are any conflicts.

[erotavlas_turbo]

This is the procedure

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rpm --import http://ATrpms.net/RPM-GPG-KEY.atrpms create the file /etc/yum.repos.d/atrpms.repo cd /etc/yum.repos.d touch atrpms.repo paste these lines [atrpms] name=Red Hat Enterprise Linux $releaserver - $basearch - ATrpms baseurl=http://dl.atrpms.net/el5-$basearch/atrpms/stable gpgcheck=1 enabled=1 gpgkey=http://ATrpms.net/RPM-GPG-KEY.atrpms yum check-update yum install VLC

Now I get the following message

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--> Processing Dependency: libFLAC.so.8 for package: vlc --> Finished Dependency Resolution vlc-1.0.5-50.1.el5.i386 from atrpms has depsolving problems --> Missing Dependency: libFLAC.so.8 is needed by package vlc-1.0.5-50.1.el5.i386 (atrpms) Error: Missing Dependency: libFLAC.so.8 is needed by package vlc-1.0.5-50.1.el5.i386 (atrpms) You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem You could try running: package-cleanup --problems package-cleanup --dupes rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest The program package-cleanup is found in the yum-utils package.

[dubak]

libFLAC is in the atrpms testing repository I think. Just add the atrpms testing repo. That should help

[erotavlas_turbo]

Thank you very much. Now I have installed VLC but there is an other problem

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VLC media player 1.0.5 Goldeneye LibVLC has detected an unusable buggy GNU/libc version. Please update to version 2.8 or newer. [0x98b7440] main interface error: no interface module matched "globalhotkeys,none" [0x98b7440] main interface error: no suitable interface module [0x975c8a8] main libvlc error: interface "globalhotkeys,none" initialization failed [0x975c8a8] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface. [0x989cf90] main generic error: no dialogs provider module matched "any" [0x98b7440] skins2 interface error: no suitable dialogs provider found (hint: compile the qt4 plugin, and make sure it is loaded properly) [0x98b7440] skins2 interface: skin: subX author: Martin Poehlmann [0x98c4678] main generic error: no dialogs provider module matched "any" [0x98b7440] skins2 interface error: no suitable dialogs provider found (hint: compile the qt4 plugin, and make sure it is loaded properly)

[dubak]

this reminds me I also had to install other version of qt4 (delete the original one and use some other one).
However I'm not sure anymore about this information. I just googled it somewhere. Sorry, can't help you much more with this. Just try to look with yum for any other package wit qt<something> and replace it.
I surely can tell, that I found it in the atrpms repos.
Sorry that I didn't give all the info right at the beginning, but the memories are comming only right after you send me the error messages which I also saw before

[erotavlas_turbo]

Thank you, VLC works well for my purposes. yum install qt4 (qt) doesn't correct the error message, but I don't care about it

[dubak]

Hi,
now I checked the system and this should help:
erase the qt4 and install qt44 and qt44-x11. Then reinstall vlc. That helped me

[lockev3.0]

Puffff .... push away my post if anyone may take offense of it, but RedHat in general sucks ! I first started using Linux with an ancient RH 4.2 and since then, the package management remains the same mess. I got Debian testing on my personal desktops and whenever i need something, just install it. Only vlc 1.05 I had to compile from sources.

Now i am on an vps trying the same and is HELL! .... i have added the ATrpm repos but now loooooots of dependencies : libcdio libavutil and some more ...
I tried to compile it ..... even worst, autoconf or whoever depends upon it still gets stuck in the bootstrap step.


This distro is like hell men.

[lockev3.0]

Sorry if I was a bit rude before but i'm going mad at the moment.
My errors right now, trying to install latest (or at least >=1.0.3) are :

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yum --disablerepo='epel' install vlc libcddb-1.3.1-1.el5.rf.i386 from installed has depsolving problems --> Missing Dependency: libcdio.so.7 is needed by package libcddb-1.3.1-1.el5.rf.i386 (installed) vlc-1.0.5-50.1.el5.i386 from atrpms has depsolving problems --> Missing Dependency: libFLAC.so.8 is needed by package vlc-1.0.5-50.1.el5.i386 (atrpms) libcddb-1.3.1-1.el5.rf.i386 from installed has depsolving problems --> Missing Dependency: libcdio.so.7(CDIO_7) is needed by package libcddb-1.3.1-1.el5.rf.i386 (installed) vlc-1.0.5-50.1.el5.i386 from atrpms has depsolving problems --> Missing Dependency: libdvdread.so.3 is needed by package vlc-1.0.5-50.1.el5.i386 (atrpms) Error: Missing Dependency: libcdio.so.7 is needed by package libcddb-1.3.1-1.el5.rf.i386 (installed) Error: Missing Dependency: libFLAC.so.8 is needed by package vlc-1.0.5-50.1.el5.i386 (atrpms) Error: Missing Dependency: libcdio.so.7(CDIO_7) is needed by package libcddb-1.3.1-1.el5.rf.i386 (installed) Error: Missing Dependency: libdvdread.so.3 is needed by package vlc-1.0.5-50.1.el5.i386 (atrpms)

And my bl@@!# CentOS Testing has :

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ls /etc/yum.repos.d/ atrpms.repo CentOS-Testing.repo epel-testing.repo rpmforge.repo CentOS-Base.repo CentOS-Testing.repo~ livna.repo CentOS-Media.repo epel.repo mirrors-rpmforge

[dubak]

I told you you have to include also the atrpms.testing in your repos

[lockev3.0]

Ok. This is what I got :

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# grep -ni priori * atrpms.repo:7:priority=2 atrpms-testing.repo:7:priority=2 CentOS-Base.repo:19:priority=1 CentOS-Base.repo:28:priority=1 CentOS-Base.repo:37:priority=1 CentOS-Testing.repo:16:priority=1 epel.repo:5:failovermethod=priority epel.repo:9:priority=4 epel.repo:15:failovermethod=priority epel.repo:24:failovermethod=priority epel-testing.repo:5:failovermethod=priority epel-testing.repo:9:priority=4 epel-testing.repo:15:failovermethod=priority epel-testing.repo:24:failovermethod=priority livna.repo:9:priority=5 rpmforge.repo:12:priority=3

As for enabling ::

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# grep -ni enabled * atrpms.repo:5:enabled=1 atrpms-testing.repo:5:enabled=1 CentOS-Base.repo:53:enabled=0 CentOS-Base.repo:62:enabled=0 CentOS-Media.repo:20:enabled=0 CentOS-Testing.repo:7:# development period, so it should not be left enabled or used on production systems without due CentOS-Testing.repo:12:enabled=1 epel.repo:6:enabled=0 epel.repo:16:enabled=0 epel.repo:25:enabled=0 epel-testing.repo:6:enabled=0 epel-testing.repo:16:enabled=0 epel-testing.repo:25:enabled=0 livna.repo:6:enabled=0 livna.repo:16:enabled=0 livna.repo:25:enabled=0 rpmforge.repo:8:enabled = 1

And when I issue

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yum --disablerepo='epel' install vlc

which may result redundant because of double disabling of epel, it results in :

[libdvdread.so.3 is needed by package ......

And that's right the very first error which pushed me to test lots of different yum nightmare repositories. Actually I have libdvdread 4.3 installed, but this nightmare I am in, keeps asking me for *.so.3.

[offtopic]
more /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://ftp.es.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.es.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org testing/updates main contrib non-free

....and no problem of any type ...
[/offtopic]

[lockev3.0]

Do i have to give up ?
I have a rented vps and at the end am I gonna have to use my own home desktop ? ..... can't believe it