Compiling 0.9.8a on 12.04 Ubuntu

[v3ng3ful]

Greetings everyone,
I know old versions are not supported anymore, although I need this certain old (0.9.8a or 0.9.x generally) version, as it's the most compatible with the VLCF plugin on my dreambox. Certainly I'm not gonna discuss about vlcf compatibility. The problem is, my efforts to compile 0.9.8a in a clean 12.04 installation (seriously some packages killed me to find), went all in vain. The ./configuration along "make" went all well, but when I execute the binary I get this ("venge" obviously is my user folder):

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VLC media player 0.9.8a Grishenko [00000001] main libvlc debug: VLC media player - version 0.9.8a Grishenko - (c) 1996-2008 the VideoLAN team [00000001] main libvlc debug: libvlc was configured with ./configure '--enable-x11' '--enable-xvideo' '--enable-sdl' '--enable-avcodec' '--enable-avformat' '--enable-swscale' '--enable-mad' '--enable-libdvbpsi' '--enable-a52' '--enable-libmpeg2' '--enable-dvdnav' '--enable-faad' '--enable-vorbis' '--enable-ogg' '--enable-theora' '--enable-faac' '--enable-mkv' '--enable-freetype' '--enable-fribidi' '--enable-speex' '--enable-flac' '--enable-caca' '--enable-skins' '--enable-skins2' '--enable-alsa' '--enable-qt4' '--enable-ncurses' '--prefix=/home/venge/vlc' [00000001] main libvlc debug: translation test: code is "C" [00000001] main libvlc error: no memcpy module matched "any" [00000007] main access error: no access module matched "file" [00000006] main input error: open of `file/xspf-open:///home/venge/.local/share/vlc/ml.xspf' failed: could not create access: no access module matched "file" [00000010] main interface error: no interface module matched "http,none" [00000010] main interface error: no suitable interface module [00000001] main libvlc error: interface "http,none" initialization failed [00000011] main interface error: no interface module matched "hotkeys,none" [00000011] main interface error: no suitable interface module [00000001] main libvlc error: interface "hotkeys,none" initialization failed [00000012] main interface error: no interface module matched "inhibit,none" [00000012] main interface error: no suitable interface module [00000001] main libvlc error: interface "inhibit,none" initialization failed [00000013] main interface error: no interface module matched "screensaver,none" [00000013] main interface error: no suitable interface module [00000001] main libvlc error: interface "screensaver,none" initialization failed [00000014] main interface error: no interface module matched "signals" [00000014] main interface error: no suitable interface module [00000001] main libvlc error: interface "signals" initialization failed [00000001] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface. [00000015] main interface error: no interface module matched "any" [00000015] main interface error: no suitable interface module [00000001] main libvlc error: interface "(null)" initialization failed *** LibVLC Exception not handled: Interface initialization failed Set a breakpoint in 'libvlc_exception_not_handled' to debug.

After which, I have to Kill vlc or else it stays there forever. Now it's not a matter of honor to compile it, obviously I don't have the knowledge or intelligence to do it (yes I even admitted that xD). So I've searched over the net to find a precompiled version of vlc, a deb that is, but only had the luck to find a wandering 0.9.2 version of which, the guy who compiled, didn't include THAT '--enable-libdvbpsi' . Which, as I found out, is crucial for the dreambox kind of stream to play.
Now any ideas, even if that version is a little out of date, would be deeply appreciated. I could simply install the latest version using software center, but I like to make my life difficult (as well as yours ).
Thank you very much in advance.

[evasive]

What dreambox do you have, what firmware are you running and what version of VLCF? Has this setup (firmware version + VLCF) ever worked with a different OS?

[v3ng3ful]

Hi,
Dreambox DM500, with a Gemini 4.7 modified image. The VLC frontend is 1.8.0. Installed it directly from gemini addon server. And yes it worked, not without flaws, but it was tolerable, with Windows XP Professional SP3, and VLC 0.9.9 (from .zip). The main problem in Windows XP was the frequent fatal errors (in libvlc.dll) during buffering, or after the end of a movie. Usually after two movies in a row. Another problem was the choppy framerate (like jitter all over the screen) which I fixed by tweaking the bitrate of the corresponding format transcoding from 2048kbps to 4096kbps in vlcf.xml (/var/tuxbox/config). Never had the luck to test it in Ubuntu because of the mistake I probably did in the compilation. Although, I wish to. I'm here if you are seeking any kind of information about VLCF, I stumbled upon a thousand of errors to set it working there too. The harder the better