vlc won't startup

[bobbens]

I'm running debian linux sarge rc2 and have the latest .deb (v8.1) from the official servers. I've installed vlc and then when i run vlc or wxvlc from the console i get this:

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VLC media player 0.8.1 Janus

And then it hangs on me, doesn't give me any output, doesn't load up, just sits there. Sort of annoying, can't use it at all, and since i'm trying to view some ogm's that mplayer can't sub (while vlc can), i can't watch them.
I've also tried to build it myself, i get no errors configuring, but when i try to make it, i get:

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./modules/codec/ffmpeg/libffmpeg.a -L/usr/local/lib -lhal -ldbus-1 -lrt -lpthread -ldl -lm -lavformat -lz -lavcodec -lm ./modules/codec/ffmpeg/libffmpeg.a(libffmpeg_a-postprocess.o)(.text+0x33d): In function `InitPostproc__ffmpeg': : undefined reference to `pp_get_context' ./modules/codec/ffmpeg/libffmpeg.a(libffmpeg_a-postprocess.o)(.text+0x3b5): In function `PPQCallback': : undefined reference to `pp_get_mode_by_name_and_quality' ./modules/codec/ffmpeg/libffmpeg.a(libffmpeg_a-postprocess.o)(.text+0x607): In function `PostprocPict__ffmpeg': : undefined reference to `pp_postprocess' ./modules/codec/ffmpeg/libffmpeg.a(libffmpeg_a-postprocess.o)(.text+0x6e4): In function `ClosePostproc__ffmpeg': : undefined reference to `pp_free_mode' ./modules/codec/ffmpeg/libffmpeg.a(libffmpeg_a-postprocess.o)(.text+0x6f2): In function `ClosePostproc__ffmpeg': : undefined reference to `pp_free_context' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[2]: *** [vlc] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/bobbens/vlc-0.8.1' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/bobbens/vlc-0.8.1' make: *** [all] Error 2

If i get it working either way i'll be happy. Any ideas? Oh and i can run a file with vlc and get the image, but i can't open subs, or a menu or anything. It's as if the interface libraries were missing... I'm sure they aren't...

[FIXM]

The error messages reference use of FFMpeg modules outside of VLC.. The way to unstick the problem (incorrect preference setting or bad reference setting anyways) is to delete your preferences file for VLC...

On the Mac, this file is at:
~/library/preferences/VLC/vlcrc
Probably you'll find something similar on your system..

Good luck..

[Guest]

Already fixed it, did a rm -rf . Working great, probably some of my libraries got screwed up or something like that, it's working like a charm now, and i also fixed quite a few other problems i had. Formatting is great.

[bobbens]

Already fixed it, did a rm -rf . Working great, probably some of my libraries got screwed up or something like that, it's working like a charm now, and i also fixed quite a few other problems i had. Formatting is great.

Dammit i thought i was logged in, well it's me again .