How to Install VLC on Playstion 3!

[hunter1980]

Hi all,

I hope that you guys can help me. I want to install VLC on my ps3 and I don't know if it's possible. If possible, then how is it possible for me to install VLC?

Firstly, I tried to find the terminal on my ps3 in order to type the commandos. I never managed to find the terminal on ps3.

If, I have had access to YDL terminal, I'd have typed following commando:

$> su -
#> rpm -ivh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/...ble.noarch.rpm
#> yum install vlc

The question, is how I can enter this on my ps3? and where is the terminal on YDL? Can someone describe me step by step,of how to do it?

[ivoire]

As far as I know nobody here is using a PS3 with a linux on it, so we can't help you on how to use it. You migh ask on a forum about linux on PS3.

[stooky]

Hunter,

I am running Yellow Dog 6.1 on a PS3 and have successfully compiled VLC (somewhat).

I am getting some library errors related to ffmpeg and have placed a post on this site. If I get some good response I will post them here.

In a nutshell
1. Make sure you have the development tools gcc, etc installed.
2. download libmad source then compile.
3. download ffmpeg source then compile.
4. download vlc source then compile.

If I get it working, I will put up a detailed post as I ahae been documentting things along the way.

Chris.

[bonedome]

Hello hunter1980
you didn't mention which distro you're using, I'm using yellow dog linux 6 on my ps3, I have vlc 0.8.6c installed which runs great.
It is available prebuilt from the bodega and livna-stable repos, you'll also need the fedora extras repo to install the gstreamer plugins bad and ugly in order to play mp3 and mpeg4. If you're using centOS or fedora 6 you may be able to use the same repos.
Building vlc can be a bit of a pain, as I've found out trying to build 0.9.8a.

stooky have you been trying to build 0.9.8a ? I've had limited success but can't get sound on mpeg4 vids and just can't figure out how to embed vlc in firefox or build a seperate mozilla-vlc-plugin.
If possible could you post your ./configure, I'm not home at the moment but if I remember I have glx disabled and enabled mozilla, on the dependencies front I think I had to add qt4, a52 and libmad.
I'm back to using 0.8.6 in order to watch youtube with the mozilla plugin.
Any help would be greatly appreciated as I seem to have hit a brick wall.