On Mar 29, 2005, at 11:09 AM, Gus Wirth wrote:
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.
What does -vvvvv (sorry I don't remember exactly how many v's get the maximum amount of info) dump out before the segfault? I bet that someone missed a dependency.
Second, have you ever used DRI on these machines before? DRI was one of things that finally convinced me to give up on Linux. Have they switched to the X.org server? I'm pretty sure that VLC tries to use DRI and an X11 vertical sync extension by default. If those cough up a hairball, VLC will just expose the problem. I'm pretty sure that xine does *not* do DRI and vertical synching by default. Try to get xine to use DRI and synching and see if the issue is in the X11 server.
There are yum install instructions here: http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?p=226444#post226444
Also, aren't the install/compile flags in the src rpm? videolan-client-0.8.1-2.1.fc3.fr.src.rpm
At least, attempting to recompile from the src rpm might emit compiler/linker errors that might help point the way.
I'm sorry that you are having such problems getting this to work. I am disappointed that the vlc folks haven't done a better job packaging the Fedora version. I'll drop them a note.
-a
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