On 05/07/13 8:36 PM, Amit Kulkarni wrote:
starting vlc -vvv test.flv I get this snip. (how do I enable USE xml like the emerge gentoo folks tell of...)
You can't. It is already enabled.
[0x79b4e2b5d58] main xml reader debug: no xml reader module matching "any" could be loaded [0x79b4e2b5d58] main xml reader debug: TIMER module_need() : 0.118 ms - Total 0.118 ms / 1 intvls (Avg 0.118 ms) [0x79b4e2b5d58] main xml reader error: XML reader not found [0x79b53489f58] main xml reader debug: looking for xml reader module: 1 candidate [0x79b53489f58] main xml reader debug: no xml reader module matching "any" could be loaded
I love the debug output; pretty useless.
ktrace doesn't point to anything 31539 vlc GIO fd 4 read 8 bytes "\M-8$0\0\0\0\0\0" 31539 vlc RET read 4096/0x1000 31539 vlc CALL mmap(0,4206592,0<PROT_NONE>,0x2<MAP_PRIVATE>,4,0) ...skipping... "[\^[[32;1m0xf80321fd958\^[[0m] " 31539 vlc RET write 27/0x1b 31539 vlc CALL write(2,140187732364368,30) 31539 vlc GIO fd 2 wrote 30 bytes "main xml reader error: \^[[31;1m" 31539 vlc RET write 30/0x1e 31539 vlc CALL write(2,140187732364576,20) 31539 vlc GIO fd 2 wrote 20 bytes "XML reader not found" 31539 vlc RET write 20/0x14 31539 vlc CALL write(2,140187732364352,27) 31539 vlc GIO fd 2 wrote 27 bytes "[\^[[32;1m0xf80321fd958\^[[0m] " 31539 vlc RET write 27/0x1b 31539 vlc CALL write(2,140187732364368,30) 31539 vlc GIO fd 2 wrote 30 bytes "main xml reader error: \^[[31;1m" 31539 vlc RET write 30/0x1e 31539 vlc CALL write(2,140187732364576,20) 31539 vlc GIO fd 2 wrote 20 bytes "XML reader not found" 31539 vlc RET write 20/0x14 31539 vlc CALL write(2,17043118079549,5) 31539 vlc GIO fd 2 wrote 5 bytes "\^[[0m " 31539 vlc RET write 5 31539 vlc CALL clock_gettime(CLOCK_REALTIME,140187732370968) 31539 vlc STRU struct timespec { 1373070067.833428610 } Anyway a kind soul sent me a diff to have ffmpeg to enable libass support, the .srt file is then converted to .ass file (funny, no?). He also told me that the patch has been submitted to Brad... I asked for him to post the diff here, ao that it can get reviewed. I will start building it later.
That's just converting the subtitles into a different format and working around the problem instead of fixing whatever is wrong with VLC. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.