I've been trying to get the videolan-client (VLC) working under Fedora Core 3 and it fails in many interesting ways. There are actually several versions of it out there.
The first is from the VideoLan site itself <http://www.videolan.org>. The client is bundled with all the required packages, most of which come from freshrpms <http://freshrpms.net>. The vlc program will start and allow me to select a DVD player, but when it starts the playback screen it segfaults. Running strace on it doesn't show me anything; there is too much noise from the GUI interaction. The second program comes directly from freshrpms as videolan-client. The best way to install it is to use yum. There are a lot of dependencies that need to get sucked in, around 15. I don't have the exact count because there seems to be some packages that need to be added from the base Fedora install and I didn't keep track of them. This program will play the DVD, but you can't select what you are watching. The menu system doesn't work. For example, when I try to play "Ghostbusters" all I can see is the trailer. I can't actually select the movie. Sometimes the screen will start and then total freeze X. I had to ssh in and kill X, but the keyboard never came back so I had to reboot >:o The third program is also videolan-client but it comes from DAG <http://dag.wieers.com>. It is supposed to be the same as the freshrpms version, but the RPM is about 500K larger so I don't know how it was compiled. This version segfaults like the first one. The behavior is the same on both my desktop machine (Athlon 1800+, nVidia Geforce4 MX440 video card) and my laptop (Gateway 450ROP Intel Pentium M Centrino 1.7GHz, ATI R250 Radeon Mobility video). Conclusion: VLC is broken for Fedora Core 3. If anyone has gotten this to work I'd like to know how. Recommendation: use xine. I did the install from freshrpms using yum and it worked the first time. Gus -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
