vlc starts only with remote console interface

[clemens]

hello,

after compiling the current vlc source code (0.84a) using ubuntu 5.10 i cannot start vlc using the wxwidget graphical interface. starting vlc -I wxwidgets does not help, it shows the following output:

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clemens@bob:~/.vlc$ vlc -vvv -I wxwidgets VLC media player 0.8.4a Janus [00000001] main vlc debug: opening config file /home/clemens/.vlc/vlcrc [00000001] main vlc debug: checking builtin modules [00000001] main vlc debug: checking plugin modules [00000001] main vlc debug: loading plugins cache file /home/clemens/.vlc/cache/p lugins-04041e.dat [00000001] main vlc debug: recursively browsing `modules' [00000001] main vlc debug: recursively browsing `/usr/local/lib/vlc' [00000001] main vlc debug: recursively browsing `plugins' [00000001] main vlc debug: module bank initialized, found 176 modules [00000001] main vlc debug: opening config file /home/clemens/.vlc/vlcrc [00000001] main vlc debug: CPU has capabilities 486 586 MMX 3DNow! MMXEXT SSE FP U [00000001] main vlc debug: looking for memcpy module: 4 candidates [00000010] main module debug: using memcpy module "memcpymmxext" [00000223] main playlist debug: waiting for thread completion [00000223] main playlist debug: thread 3083721648 (playlist) created at priority 0 (src/playlist/playlist.c:183) [00000224] main private debug: waiting for thread completion [00000224] main private debug: thread 3075328944 (preparser) created at priority 0 (src/playlist/playlist.c:205) [00000225] main interface debug: looking for interface module: 1 candidate [00000108] main module debug: using interface module "hotkeys" [00000225] main interface debug: interface initialized [00000225] main interface debug: thread 3066915760 (interface) created at priori ty 0 (src/interface/interface.c:211) [00000227] main interface debug: looking for interface module: 1 candidate Remote control interface initialized, `h' for help [00000109] main module debug: using interface module "rc" [00000227] main interface debug: interface initialized [00000227] main interface debug: thread 3058473904 (manager) created at priority 0 (src/interface/interface.c:196)

the verbose mode does not tell me anything about the gui nor a malfunction of it.

what is wrong here?

[h2g2bob]

Hello

You proably didn't tell ./configure what modules you want. WxWidgets isn't installed by default - you have to tell ./configure you want it.

Official How-to
http://developers.videolan.org/vlc/nix-compile.html

What I used:

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./configure --enable-x11 --enable-xvideo --disable-gtk --enable-sdl --enable-ffmpeg --with-ffmpeg-mp3lame --with-ffmpeg-tree=/home/user/code/vlc/ffmpeg-20051126 --enable-mad --enable-libdvbpsi --enable-a52 --enable-dts --enable-libmpeg2 --enable-dvdnav --enable-faad --with-faad-tree=/home/user/code/vlc/faad2-20040923 --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 --disable-kde --disable-qt --enable-wxwindows --enable-ncurses --enable-release --disable-livedotcom --with-libmpeg2-tree=/home/user/code/vlc/mpeg2dec-0.4.1-cvs

Having said that, I can't see any proper errors about this in the output, so if the above didn't apply you can chack what interfaces you have installed:

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vlc -l | grep -i interface

or try and force use of wxwidgets

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vlc -I wx

h2g2bob

[clemens]

thx for your reply. i assumed, that the entries in the configure file are correct. there it says that wxwidget is enabled by default.

but it will try it with your command parameters.