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VLC Player (VideoLan)

Posted: 09 Dec 2011, 01:55
by lukaluki
Is there allready a VLC Player xzm package available ?
Actually i tried some slackware 1337 package from pkgs.org, but it doesnt work in porteus 1.1 rc2

best regards

Re: VLC Player (VideoLan)

Posted: 09 Dec 2011, 10:34
by Hamza
You can use two solutions :
1. Use PPM to download all pkgs and make a vlc's module
2. Use slackyd to download all txz's and install them as Slackware packages.

Re: VLC Player (VideoLan)

Posted: 09 Dec 2011, 21:09
by fanthom
VLC is in official repo now.

@lukaluki
please download LIBS.TXT and PACKAGES.TXT from here:
http://ponce.cc/porteus/x86_64/modules/
and put in your /opt/ppm folder.
now you can use Porteus Package Manager to fetch VLC + all it's dependencies from official repo.

btw: updating of LIBS.TXT and PACKAGES.TXT will be done automatically when porteus-1.1 final is out.

Re: VLC Player (VideoLan)

Posted: 09 Dec 2011, 21:40
by lukaluki
Hm where is the /opt/ppm folder on the stick?
sorry i understand, you mean to put into the folder when bootet up. i have to do that manualy ? not possible to put on the stick and automatic let fetch it?

best regards

Re: VLC Player (VideoLan)

Posted: 11 Dec 2011, 15:27
by fanthom
automatic let fetch it?
you could create simple bash script for that purpose, like here:

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#!/bin/sh

sleep 60                 # to make sure internet access is available
cd /opt/ppm
wget -c http://ponce.cc/porteus/x86_64/modules/LIBS.TXT
wget -c http://ponce.cc/porteus/x86_64/modules/PACKAGES.TXT
save it as /home/guest/.kde4/Autostart/fetch.sh and make executable.
it will download PPM index files 60 seconds after you login to the KDE-4 desktop.

Re: VLC Player (VideoLan)

Posted: 02 Jan 2012, 00:10
by lukaluki
ok thank you.

But: I still dont get where the Folder /opt/ppm is on the usb stick?

Re: VLC Player (VideoLan)

Posted: 02 Jan 2012, 11:17
by Hamza
This is normally as Porteus is originally a LiveCD..so you have to make this change when the system is running with saved changes. After you will be able to see the OPT directory in /path/to/porteus/changes/

Re: VLC Player (VideoLan)

Posted: 02 Jan 2012, 22:26
by fanthom
@lukaluki
please read the docs about porteus filesystem structure:
here
and here
second doc will tell you where you have to put the files on usb stick to get them accessible in virtual system after boot.

hope that helps.

Re: VLC Player (VideoLan)

Posted: 07 Jul 2012, 21:46
by kaz
fanthom wrote:VLC is in official repo now.
I am afraid VLC being in official repo is only the case for 64bit, and not for 32bit.

I use 32bit Porteus, and after some trial and error, I have found the easiest way to use VLC with 32bit Porteus is:

(1) Install qt-4.7.0_7abde40 using Porteus Package Manager.
(2) Get the VLC package for Slackware 13.37 from http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-slackware.html and do installpkg.

Posted after 27 minutes 48 seconds:
Sorry, I came here in search of the keyword "VLC" and did not know this is the place for Porteus 64-bit Editions.

Re: VLC Player (VideoLan)

Posted: 07 Jul 2012, 22:04
by brokenman
No problem, i will add a standalaone version of vlc to the 32bit repo shortly. No deps required.

Re: VLC Player (VideoLan)

Posted: 31 Aug 2012, 07:58
by sven
I can't find VLC for 32 bit, is it in the repo?

Re: VLC Player (VideoLan)

Posted: 31 Aug 2012, 09:17
by lukaluki
I tested the 64Bit but still VLC is not in there :(
For me VLC is one of the best and easyst players, I would love to see it in there in next release ^_^

Re: VLC Player (VideoLan)

Posted: 31 Aug 2012, 16:35
by sven
I tried to install VLC from Slackware sources via Package Manager on a 32 bit system, but it failed. I think it couldn't resolve libass.so.4 in the end (don't remember exactly).

I have a uge library of movies made in M4V format and the players included in Porteus can't play m4v. Maybe with some tweak or extra lib but that's unknown to me.


EDIT: I got it working, finally. :)
I'll publish the packages and what I did in the i486 section later. The kids occupied the PC watching movies right away...
Now I just have to figure out why the network sharing doesn't work, seems to be some broken package.

EDIT2: For 32 bit i added a post here.

Re: VLC Player (VideoLan)

Posted: 01 Sep 2012, 15:50
by brokenman
I will need to recompile TDE (Porteus 32bit) with better samba support. On the TODO list.

Re: VLC Player (VideoLan)

Posted: 06 Sep 2012, 13:58
by sven
brokenman wrote:I will need to recompile TDE (Porteus 32bit) with better samba support. On the TODO list.
Is there something I can do to make it work as is?