[SOLVED]Installing on a fedora core 4, without gui

[dogood]

hello,

excuse me for this first direct post, but I'm in a kind of urgence!
I need to install vlc on a fedora core 4 server, which is a web server in a data center, so it has no gui, and won't have any ever. my question is quite simple: am I able to install vlc without all the stuff concerning the user interface?

I'm still reading the documentation, searching for that. thanks and congratulations for the great job!!

[jeffiel]

Yes, you can. The Yum package (use the vlc yum for 0.8.5 release), linva for the previous 0.8.4 release. When you launch, it will detect that it has no GUI, and launch the RC interface instead. I actually use the dummy interface, and launch rc as an extra interface so that stdin isn't hanging around.

[dogood]

hello
thanx for the answer! but the problem I'm facing with is that if I want to install vlc, with livna or freshrpms repo, I've got to install all the gui related stuff!! and I don't want to! so I went yesterday onto the irc channel, and a dev there told me I had to compile it with configure options so as to disable all these stuff...

still working on it!

bye

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

You should be able to ignore-dependencies in order to not install X stuffs...

[dogood]

re-hello

so I made a test server running fedora core 4, added the freshrpms repo, and yum'installed vlc. Well, i've got it!!

right now, I'm going through reading the vlc doc, but I was wondering if I could find some tips&trick here. what I would like to know, and I can't figure out how, is how do I launch the web interface for vlc. I'm wondering also how I can start streaming on my local network from this test server. i'm still reading and searching in the docs..

thanks!!

[dionoea]

Launch the web interface: vlc -I http and then login to http://localhost:8080 (this is explained somewhere in the playhowto doc i think)

[dogood]

hi!

When I launch vlc using "vlc -I http" I get

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VLC media player 0.8.4a Janus [00000274] main interface: creating httpd

and nothing more... logging onto localhost:8080 gives a connexion error..

I'll try it the verbose way to see if there's something going wrong...

and here's what it tells using vlc -vI http

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VLC media player 0.8.4a Janus [00000274] skins2 interface error: Cannot open display [00000274] skins2 interface error: Cannot initialize OSFactory Interface de commande à distance initialisée, « h » pour obtenir de l’aide. libdvdnav: Using dvdnav version 0.1.10 from http://dvd.sf.net libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.9 for DVD access libdvdread: Can't stat http Aucun fichier ou répertoire de ce type libdvdnav: vm: faild to open/read the DVD status change: ( New input: http ) status change: ( audio volume: 256 ) status change: ( play state: 1 ) [00000282] access_gnomevfs access error: cannot get file info for uri file:////http (Fichier non trouvé) [00000289] access_gnomevfs access error: cannot get file info for uri file:////http (Fichier non trouvé) [00000278] main input error: no suitable access module for `http' status change: ( stop state: 0 ) [00000268] main playlist: nothing to play

the "access_gnomevfs access error" makes me think that I must be in the right directory to start vlc this way??

bye

[dogood]

hello

No answers to this post, but I finally got it all running. The fact is SELinux, after installing fedora core 4, was leading to the impossibility to deliver the web interface for vlc. I can run it now, and I'm testing the first streams. I looked around in the forums for other web interfaces, and couldn't find anything more advanced than the default one...

still looking for somthing a litte bit more complete...

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