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sclawson12

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Registered: 8/10/08

VLC Package for Opensolaris
Posted: Aug 10, 2008 12:05 AM

Would someone be able to build a package up of VLC for OpenSolaris?

This is a great video player and it would be nice to use it on OpenSolaris.

(I know about Mplayer, so please don't tell me to go and use this)

I am requesting this as I believe this would be very useful for the OpenSolaris userbase.

htp://www.videolan.org

Roumen

Posts: 21
Registered: 7/8/08

Re: VLC Package for Opensolaris
Posted: Aug 11, 2008 7:53 AM

in response to: sclawson12

Hi,

not sure if it helps but there is a VLC package on Blastwave:

http://www.blastwave.org/packages.php/vlc

sclawson12

Posts: 3
Registered: 8/10/08

Re: VLC Package for Opensolaris
Posted: Aug 12, 2008 2:17 AM

in response to: Roumen

Yes I have seen this and even tried to use it in the past.

It is very old now. There is a newer one of the Dev site, but it never seems to have moved on from there.

I am just surprised nobody from Sun has got onto building a package of it. It is very useful software for viewing video and streamed video. Also it can be used to broadcast and transcode video as well.

I would actually like to use it with some Sun rays if I can ever get an up to date package.

I am pretty reasonable with a compiler myself, but this software has proven difficult to build and I have never managed to find much info on any mailing lists with info on anyone that has ever managed to build an up to date version. (I haven't tried in the last few months, but last time I gave up)

Roumen

Posts: 21
Registered: 7/8/08

Re: VLC Package for Opensolaris
Posted: Aug 13, 2008 2:55 AM

in response to: sclawson12

We've looked into providing VLC and some other media players but there seem to be unresolved issues with codec licenses with many of these players. I know there's some effort to resolve this in the upcoming releases and provide better media support but as far as I know we can't just take VLC and put it into our repository due to legal reasons.

kronox

Posts: 19
Registered: 5/6/08

Re: VLC Package for Opensolaris
Posted: Aug 13, 2008 7:56 PM

in response to: sclawson12

You can grab VLC (0.8.6i) package at http://pkg.lifewithsolaris.jp:10000/.

I've just uploaded it today.

sclawson12

Posts: 3
Registered: 8/10/08

Re: VLC Package for Opensolaris
Posted: Aug 14, 2008 2:55 AM

in response to: kronox

Hey thanks very much for this. I have downloaded it and it works well.

Did you tryu sing it to play streaming video at all?

Your package site looks great as well! I will grab a few more packages.

kronox

Posts: 19
Registered: 5/6/08

Re: VLC Package for Opensolaris
Posted: Aug 14, 2008 3:10 AM

in response to: sclawson12

Your package site looks great as well! I will grab a few more packages.

I forgot to mention one thing. Please DO NOT install MusicBrainz Picard (LWSpicard) package (if you're trying to install), since I've completely forgotten to include python part... (which means it doesn't work at all)

I'll replace this package tomorrow.

kronox

Posts: 19
Registered: 5/6/08

Re: VLC Package for Opensolaris
Posted: Aug 14, 2008 4:47 PM

in response to: kronox

Now, LWSpicard has been replaced and works.

houston

Posts: 1
Registered: 5/7/08

Re: VLC Package for Opensolaris
Posted: Aug 19, 2008 6:00 PM

in response to: kronox

Wow, that's good going kronox, even got skins2 going?

I managed to get it built but had some weird errors with libffmpeg_plugin.so not finding symbols from libavcodec, and it segged whenever i tried to turn on skins2... Which isn't ideal.

Was going to have another play with it this weekend,however now no need!

Thanks! Will try it out later when I slap latest os iso on my box.

Site looks good also

pomah

Posts: 2
Registered: 8/21/08

Re: VLC Package for Opensolaris
Posted: Aug 21, 2008 12:44 AM

in response to: kronox

Thanks a lot!

ilanesh

Posts: 23
Registered: 9/5/08

Re: VLC Package for Opensolaris
Posted: Sep 5, 2008 12:38 PM

in response to: kronox

Hello, I am brand new with opensolaris, and I went to your package site, but I can not find any download link, How to download vlc package and how to install? Please bare with me, it is all new for me.
Thank you.

ilanesh

Posts: 23
Registered: 9/5/08

Re: VLC Package for Opensolaris
Posted: Sep 6, 2008 3:18 AM

in response to: ilanesh

Any Help here???

ilanesh

Posts: 23
Registered: 9/5/08

Re: VLC Package for Opensolaris
Posted: Sep 6, 2008 5:30 AM

in response to: ilanesh

nobody answers in this forum, not very newbee friendly it seems.
are there at all new peole accept for to getting help???

Mika

Posts: 3
Registered: 5/10/08

Re: VLC Package for Opensolaris
Posted: Sep 6, 2008 3:54 PM

in response to: kronox

Tried to access the repository, but seems to be down. Can you please check?

Thanks
Mika

Mika

Posts: 3
Registered: 5/10/08

Re: VLC Package for Opensolaris
Posted: Sep 6, 2008 3:56 PM

in response to: ilanesh

I think we are just all too busy...

Kronox has some instructions on his page http://lifewithsolaris.jp/modules/xoopsfaq/index.php?cat_id=2#q5

Unfortunatly the repository seems to be down at the moment.

Cheers
Mika

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