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Re: Video not in interface

Postby Rémi Denis-Courmont » 29 Oct 2008 18:20

Can't you read? this bug has nothing to do with Qt4 versions. It affects all platforms and all Qt4 versions.
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Re: Video not in interface

Postby jgg » 30 Oct 2008 09:11

Maybe a silly question but... why the change to Qt in 0.9.x VLC releases? Can VLC 0.9.x be compiled with wxWidgets enabled instead and make VLC embedded window work properly?

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Re: Video not in interface

Postby Rémi Denis-Courmont » 30 Oct 2008 16:44

The WxWidgets interface is way worse. It's full of deadlocks and crashes all over.
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Re: Video not in interface

Postby jgg » 30 Oct 2008 22:58

But it worked with VLC 0.8.x releases, didn't it?

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Re: Video not in interface

Postby mc5man » 30 Oct 2008 23:28

I would agree that embedded may have issues but i've had none with it enabled running 0.9.4 and 0.9.5 on ubuntu hardy (8.04

So for those that wish to test I've redone korn's ver. with embedded enabled. (

Please note no promises as to whether issues will arise, if so just remove or allow vlc to be upgraded to korn's release (seen as an upgrade even though same ver.
Also note I'm not uploading any of the needed dependencies or plug ins so you should have the korn ppa for hardy enabled as a software source (any missing dep's will be auto installed.

Also note this .deb is only good for install while the korn ppa is on same version - 0.9.5+x264snapshot20080928+faad2.6.1-1~ppa1

For 0.9.5 with embedded enabled

<removed link > due to korn ppa moving back to 0.9.3 ( which I don't get, embedded is just as potentially an issue in 0.9.3 as 0.9.5

For add. info and patch info ect.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php? ... ost6035102

edit: also note that in all likelihood you'll have an unsuitable default launch command 'vlc %U'. Go to edit menus -> sound & video -> properties of vlc and change to vlc %f (space between vlc and %f
Also it doesn't hurt after changing versions of 0.9.x to go to home dir. -> .config and delete the vlc folder before first use of new version
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Re: Video not in interface

Postby kubunu_user » 31 Oct 2008 07:22

I can conform that VLC 0.9.5 works correctly with the patch in kubuntu 8.04.1

The Video is now corretly displayed inside the interface, no crashes so far, tried to play .mpg .avi files all without problems.

Btw. what does this line mean ?
[00000568] inhibit interface error: Failed to connect to the D-Bus session daemon: Failed to execute dbus-launch to autolaunch D-Bus session

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Re: Video not in interface

Postby ivoire » 31 Oct 2008 22:31

But it worked with VLC 0.8.x releases, didn't it?
It worked not really well with a lot of hack and workaround. So Qt4 is way better.

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Re: Video not in interface

Postby ivoire » 31 Oct 2008 22:35

I can conform that VLC 0.9.5 works correctly with the patch in kubuntu 8.04.1
The bug we are talking a bout is a race condition. It means that it can work well on some computer and not at all on some other computers. And that's not because it's working for you at the moment, that you won't have any crash.
[00000568] inhibit interface error: Failed to connect to the D-Bus session daemon: Failed to execute dbus-launch to autolaunch D-Bus session
This message means vlc can't communicate with your DBus daamon.

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Re: Video not in interface

Postby kubunu_user » 01 Nov 2008 06:15

The bug we are talking a bout is a race condition. It means that it can work well on some computer and not at all on some other computers. And that's not because it's working for you at the moment, that you won't have any crash..
Well it seems there are some problems with interlace function when the window is in the interface, whenever i enable interlace vlc crashes in 2 of 3 times.

When the output is going in the x11 window , vlc will not crash and the interlace works as expected.

But something is wrong then with the display rate, the window is smaller as before , but this seems to be a other failure that has nothing to do now with this problem.
[00000568] inhibit interface error: Failed to connect to the D-Bus session daemon: Failed to execute dbus-launch to autolaunch D-Bus session
This message means vlc can't communicate with your DBus daamon.
For what it will be needed to connect to the DBus daemon , and why it can't connect to it ?

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Re: Video not in interface

Postby ivoire » 04 Nov 2008 14:04

For what it will be needed to connect to the DBus daemon
Mainly to desactivate the hibernation during play of a video. And to send notification if you want to make vlc communicate with over applications.
why it can't connect to it
I can't know without any investigation.
Running vlc in verbose mode (with -vvv as option on the command line) might help.

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Re: Video not in interface

Postby javilete » 08 Dec 2008 19:43

Hi! any news about this bug?
I found this in Qt bug tracker: http://trolltech.com/developer/task-tra ... &id=139455
This fix was tagged to Qt4.2.1. Anybody has any problems with 4.4.3 libs?

Md proposed to reenable embedded again and eventually disable it only when HAS_QT43 is *not* set:
http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/2136#comment:2

Note: Qt4.5 is closer. If is not fixed yet it would be good report it in qt's bug tracker, before to become out.

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Re: Video not in interface

Postby Rémi Denis-Courmont » 08 Dec 2008 19:46

AGAIN: This is not a QT4 bug. This is a VLC bug. And it's definitely not fixed.
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Re: Video not in interface

Postby javilete » 08 Dec 2008 20:03

AGAIN: This is not a QT4 bug. This is a VLC bug. And it's definitely not fixed.
Thanks Rémi, I hope this will soon fixed, is annoying play videos in X11 output window.

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Re: Video not in interface

Postby Rémi Denis-Courmont » 08 Dec 2008 20:13

For all I know, I gave up on trying to fix it.
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Re: Video not in interface

Postby shirish » 04 Jan 2009 21:09

Hi Remi,
Does this mean that we would never have a release which would work with embedded, atleast in the short-run?
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Re: Video not in interface

Postby Rémi Denis-Courmont » 04 Jan 2009 22:36

If it crashes, the user can just clear the checkbox.
I am absolutely 100% completely totally surely certain that my aunt would not be able to do that.
She does use VLC though.

In any case, this bug will is utmostly unlikely be fixed in the 0.9.x timeframe. It requires ongoing core architectural fixes which we can only do in 1.0.
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Re: Video not in interface

Postby esc1 » 13 Jan 2009 05:24

I just upgraded to Ubuntu 8.10 from 8.04 64 bit. I love the Askin skin and have the interface problem when I try to use the skin, but don't when I use the default player. Using version 0.9.4. Really wish I could get the skin working.

Just read skins are broken in this version. Eh, ok..

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Re: Video not in interface

Postby shirish » 13 Jan 2009 07:28

It seems it has been fixed as far as the bug is concerned, but when we will get the fix packaged as a release is anybody's guess.
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Re: Video not in interface

Postby Rémi Denis-Courmont » 13 Jan 2009 22:13

It has been fixed in 1.0. There is no way we can backport the fix to 0.9 as it is way too invasive, and depends on 1.0 APIs.
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Re: Video not in interface

Postby ironic » 23 Apr 2009 23:22

this bug still alive for me.

Ubuntu 9.04
vlc .0.9.9a - installed from repository
video output: x11

debug when trying to run from terminal
vlc
VLC media player 0.9.9a Grishenko
[00000001] main libvlc debug: VLC media player - version 0.9.9a Grishenko - (c) 1996-2009 the VideoLAN team
[00000001] main libvlc debug: libvlc was configured with ./configure '--build=i486-linux-gnu' '--enable-maintainer-mode' '--enable-release' '--prefix=/usr' '--enable-libtool' '--enable-fast-install' '--with-binary-version=2ubuntu1' '--disable-update-check' '--disable-gnome' '--disable-gtk' '--disable-familiar' '--disable-fb' '--enable-ggi' '--enable-sdl' '--enable-esd' '--enable-mad' '--enable-jack' '--enable-pulse' '--enable-lirc' '--enable-a52' '--enable-aa' '--enable-dvbpsi' '--enable-mozilla' '--with-mozilla-pkg=libxul-plugin' '--disable-kde' '--enable-mp4' '--enable-dvb' '--disable-satellite' '--enable-ogg' '--enable-vorbis' '--enable-shout' '--enable-qt4' '--disable-slp' '--enable-flac' '--disable-skins' '--disable-basic-skins' '--enable-skins2' '--enable-freetype' '--enable-mkv' '--enable-speex' '--enable-caca' '--enable-live555' '--enable-libmpeg2' '--enable-fribidi' '--enable-cdio' '--enable-mod' '--enable-theora' '--enable-modplug' '--enable-dvdnav' '--enable-gnutls' '--enable-ffmpeg' '--enable-ncurses' '--enable-smb' '--disable-gnomevfs' '--enable-bonjour' '--enable-mpc' '--enable-vcd' '--enable-vcdx' '--enable-notify' '--enable-twolame' '--enable-faad' '--disable-zvbi' '--enable-telx' '--enable-mediacontrol-bindings' '--disable-atmo' '--enable-taglib' '--enable-libass' '--enable-libdca' '--enable-realrtsp' '--disable-dv' '--enable-x264' '--enable-alsa' '--enable-v4l' '--enable-v4l2' '--enable-pvr' '--enable-svgalib' '--enable-dvd' '--without-dvdcss' 'build_alias=i486-linux-gnu' 'CFLAGS=-g -O2' 'LDFLAGS=-Wl,--as-needed' 'CPPFLAGS=' 'CXXFLAGS=-g -O2'
[00000001] main libvlc debug: translation test: code is "C"
[00000001] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface.
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Re: Video not in interface

Postby Rémi Denis-Courmont » 25 Apr 2009 11:49

So what else is new? In the real world, version 0.9.9 is smaller than version 1.0...
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Re: Video not in interface

Postby ironic » 25 Apr 2009 20:42

So what else is new? In the real world, version 0.9.9 is smaller than version 1.0...
Sorry Remi, i didnt see ur explanation. Thats my fault!

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Re: Video not in interface

Postby whyandwhynot » 29 Apr 2009 14:22

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Re: Video not in interface

Postby Rémi Denis-Courmont » 29 Apr 2009 18:14

Thank you for volunteering the fix the problem. That's very helpful.
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Re: Video not in interface

Postby whyandwhynot » 29 Apr 2009 19:45

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