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hello everyone. happy new years and all that.

I am trying to install vlc 0.8.6, that i got via svn yesterday, on Fedora 6. The problem is that everything configures and compiles correctly however when I start up a movie (an .avi or .mov mpeg4) the player opens up but doesn't display anything. Other things are played fine, like .mpeg's and the like.

I believe this would be because I didn't link it correctly to ffmpeg. However I also believe that i did everything correctly, from what i have read on this site and elsewhere... Here is what I have done:

*** i found all the dependencies (i think, there isn't a complete list it appears), via. yum install vlc, but not following through. Then I manually installed each of the mentioned dependencies including the -devel packages. Then I updated a number of other libraries to -devel as well, basically finding ones that are at all video or audio related (or display related.

*** i then compiled and install live555 into /usr/lib/live

*** i configured ffmpeg with

./configure --libdir=/usr/lib --mandir=/usr/share/man --enable-mp3lame --enable-faac --enable-libogg --enable-vorbis --enable-faad --enable-xvid --enable-x264 --enable-a52 --enable-a52bin --enable-pp --enable-shared --enable-pthreads --enable-dc1394 --enable-gpl --disable-strip

*** i made ffmpeg and then left it (as it says to)

*** I now configured VLC with this:

./configure --disable-gtk --disable-qt --disable-kde --with-ffmpeg-tree=/home/pat/apps/ffmpeg/ --enable-ffmpeg --with-ffmpeg-mp3lame --with-ffmpeg-vorbis --with-ffmpeg-ogg --with-ffmpeg-faac --with-ffmpeg-theora --enable-a52 --enable-dts --enable-faad --enable-faac --enable-freetype --enable-glx --enable-libmpeg2 --enable-vorbis --enable-sdl --enable-ogg --enable-theora --enable-mkv --enable-real --enable-realrtsp --enable-x264 --enable-dv --enable-dc1394 --enable-dependency-tracking --enable-v4l --enable-xvideo --enable-x11 --enable-wxwindows --enable-ncurses --enable-release --enable-alsa --enable-skins --enable-skins2 --enable-caca --enable-flac --enable-speex --enable-fribidi --enable-libdvbpsi --enable-mad --enable-dvdnav --enable-live555 --with-live555-tree=/usr/lib/live


where /home/john/apps/ffmpeg is the directory where the ./configure script for ffmpeg is, and where i compiled it... now here are the errors i get: ( i would very much like to use dc1393 as well)




[patrick@localhost movies]# vlc curse.mov
VLC media player 0.9.0-svn Grishenko
starting VLC root wrapper... using UID 0 (root)

[00000318] dc1394 demuxer error: Bad MRL, please check the option line (MRL was: curse.mov)
main warning: can't store message (Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character): found Box:
main warning: can't store message (Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character): read box: "
main warning: can't store message (Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character): found Box:
main warning: can't store message (Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character): read box: "
main warning: can't store message (Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character): found Box:
main warning: can't store message (Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character): read box: "
main warning: can't store message (Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character): found Box:
main warning: can't store message (Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character): read box: "
[00000327] main decoder error: no suitable decoder module for fourcc `avc1'.
VLC probably does not support this sound or video format.
[00000286] main playlist: saving Media Library to file /root/.vlc/ml.xsp
[00000207] main module error: object is not attached
[00000205] main module error: object is not attached
[166749880] main private error: object is not attached




does anyone know what is wrong or what i can do?

another thing is, i made an image of my computer before i compiled anything after i installed all the stuff (ffmpeg and vlc) and so i can revert to it. If I install vlc from yum at any time (in a new one or after i tried iinstalling it myself and then make unintsalling it) everything works as expected.

Recompile FFmpeg with only this option, and if you can recompile FFmpeg statically with VLC. Your problem coming with the --x264 option, remove it from the FFmpeg configure.

Look the http://www.slacky.it build script

http://www.slacky.it/repository/slackwa ... SlackBuild

--disable-debug --enable-mp3lame \
--enable-xvid --enable-a52 \
--enable-libogg --enable-gpl \
--enable-pp \
--enable-faac --enable-faad \
--enable-dts \
--enable-a52bin --enable-vorbis \
--enable-faadbin

hi, thanks for the reply gohanz. i just tried what you recommended, however i experienced the exact same issues. I couldn't follow exactly what i was to do, but seemed to want to build ffmpeg without --enable-x264, and with the --enables that you recommended in your post

I used that exact configure line, and everything built correctly, however when i tried running vlc i got the same errors.

some questions to make sure i am doing it correctly:

i am supposed to #make the ffmpeg source but not #make install correct?

i link to the ffmpeg source folder where i JUST made the ffmpeg source right?


thanks for any help!

hi. So i have tried this a couple more times, and run into the same problem everytime (if it doesn't error out in the compilation).

Some of the things i have done:

- gone into /extras/contrib folder and typed 'make'. i didn't think this was necessary at all as in the readme it only mentions os X and cygwing. this errors eventually anyways with an error: "undefined reference to gpg_strerror".

- from the contrib_status page on the videolan.org site I went through every dependency and yumm'd it and it's -devel in. I do not think that i need to hand compile everything.

Questions if someone could help:

- Do I only "make" the ffmpeg source, or do I make install it aswell? I guess that it wouldn't make any real difference as long as I static link the VLC to the ffmpeg compiled source?

- Do I have to do the same thing with x264? So far I have just yum'd it in, as it is a lot easier and likely works. This may be a problem though and I may have to static link both ffmpeg and vlc to this?

Please help, this is VERY frustrating!

Hi all,

i have recently downloaded the svn version (0.9.0). I'm interested in building the application from source on my Ubuntu Dapper distro but i was not able to do it.

I'm posting here because the error i get is similar to the above mentioned.

After following the instructions on the page about the Unix Compilation
http://wiki.videolan.org/UnixCompile , and have some issues resolved, i'm stuck at the make of extras step. In particular, at the make of libgcrypt. It throws this error at linking:

(...)
i486-linux-gnu-gcc -I/home/alex/devel-vlc/vlc-0.9.0-svn/vlc-trunk/extras/contrib /include -I/home/alex/devel-vlc/vlc-0.9.0-svn/vlc-trunk/extras/contrib/include - isystem /home/alex/devel-vlc/vlc-0.9.0-svn/vlc-trunk/extras/contrib/include -Wal l -o .libs/basic basic.o -L/home/alex/devel-vlc/vlc-0.9.0-svn/vlc-trunk/extras/ contrib/lib ../src/.libs/libgcrypt.so -lnsl -Wl,--rpath -Wl,/home/alex/devel-vlc /vlc-0.9.0-svn/vlc-trunk/extras/contrib/lib
basic.o: In function `check_cbc_mac_cipher':basic.c:(.text+0x11c): undefined ref erence to `gpg_strerror'
:basic.c:(.text+0x2bc): undefined reference to `gpg_strerror'
:basic.c:(.text+0x348): undefined reference to `gpg_strerror'
:basic.c:(.text+0x4b7): undefined reference to `gpg_strerror'
basic.o: In function `check_aes128_cbc_cts_cipher':basic.c:(.text+0x698): undefined reference to `gpg_strerror'
basic.o:basic.c:(.text+0x6e6): more undefined references to `gpg_strerror' follow
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[5]: *** [basic] Error 1
(...)

I think i have installed all the dependencies, including libgpg-error0 and libgpg-error-dev. I have even made 'apt-get build-dep libgcrypt11-dev' with no result.

Please, could anyone help with this? Am i losing some step?
I need to compile the application and have no clue.

Thanks a lot

I am also facing the same problem while compiling the SVN under ubuntu.

have you solve this problem ?

No, i couldnt solve it but instead i downloaded code for version 0.8.6a which was enough for my needs and manage to compile it.

By the way, i found out that we don't need to manually build the extras/contrib as long as we have all the dependencies installed on our machine (which can be done using 'apt-get build-dep vlc').