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Keith Marjerison

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Mar 15, 2010, 5:32:34 PM3/15/10
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Hello All;
I see there is a VLC port to os/2 on hobbes, 'vlc-1.0.5-tp1.zip'.
Has anyone gotten it to work, and if so, how did you do it?
Do I have to run it in an X window?
No instructions included in the package.
Thanks for any help in advance.

Trevor Hemsley

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Mar 15, 2010, 7:28:28 PM3/15/10
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In the .txt file next to it, it says

Additional requirements: kLIBC v0.6.3, SDL/2 v1.2.10, Qt 4.5.1GA

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Trevor dot Hemsley at ntlworld dot com

Dave Yeo

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Mar 15, 2010, 11:43:02 PM3/15/10
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Trevor Hemsley wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:32:34 UTC in comp.os.os2.multimedia, Keith Marjerison
> <k.marj...@sasktel.net> wrote:
>
>> Hello All;
>> I see there is a VLC port to os/2 on hobbes, 'vlc-1.0.5-tp1.zip'.
>> Has anyone gotten it to work, and if so, how did you do it?
>> Do I have to run it in an X window?
>> No instructions included in the package.
>> Thanks for any help in advance.
>
> In the .txt file next to it, it says
>
> Additional requirements: kLIBC v0.6.3, SDL/2 v1.2.10, Qt 4.5.1GA
>

Also
4. Limits or Know Bugs...
-------------------------

.There are minimum features to compile and to run.
.--plugin-path should be specified whenever run vlc

Ex) vlc --plugin-path=/usr/local/lib/vlc

Dave

Keith Marjerison

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Mar 16, 2010, 2:51:56 AM3/16/10
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Trevor Hemsley wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:32:34 UTC in comp.os.os2.multimedia, Keith Marjerison
> <k.marj...@sasktel.net> wrote:
>
>> Hello All;
>> I see there is a VLC port to os/2 on hobbes, 'vlc-1.0.5-tp1.zip'.
>> Has anyone gotten it to work, and if so, how did you do it?
>> Do I have to run it in an X window?
>> No instructions included in the package.
>> Thanks for any help in advance.
>
> In the .txt file next to it, it says
>
> Additional requirements: kLIBC v0.6.3, SDL/2 v1.2.10, Qt 4.5.1GA
>
Hello Trevor;
Got all of that before I started.
Thanks for the input.

Keith Marjerison

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Mar 16, 2010, 2:56:28 AM3/16/10
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Hi Dave;
I did that. I still get :

Cannot determine unprivileged user for VLC!
Thanks for the input.

KO Myung-Hun

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Mar 16, 2010, 5:10:19 AM3/16/10
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Hi/2.

Are you sure you are using vlc.exe not vlc-wrapper.exe ?

And what I tested are only a very simple mpeg video(demo.mpg shipped
with libkva) and an 8 bits mono wave audio in OS/2 multimedia folder.

So, do not expect too many things.

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KO Myung-Hun

Using Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.0.3
Under OS/2 Warp 4 for Korean with FixPak #15
On AMD ThunderBird 1GHz with 512 MB RAM

Korean OS/2 User Community : http://www.ecomstation.co.kr

Dave Yeo

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Mar 16, 2010, 10:30:07 AM3/16/10
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Keith Marjerison wrote:
> Hi Dave;
> I did that. I still get :
>
> Cannot determine unprivileged user for VLC!
> Thanks for the input.

Perhaps there is another setting. Have you USER set? Home set?
Dave

Keith Marjerison

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Mar 17, 2010, 6:43:54 AM3/17/10
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KO Myung-Hun wrote:
>
> Are you sure you are using vlc.exe not vlc-wrapper.exe ?
>
> And what I tested are only a very simple mpeg video(demo.mpg shipped
> with libkva) and an 8 bits mono wave audio in OS/2 multimedia folder.
>
> So, do not expect too many things.
>
Hello KO Myung-Hun;
I have tried to run both. When I try and start from command line:
[E:\USR\LOCAL\BIN]vlc --plugin-path=E:/usr/local/lib/vlc
I get:
SYS1804: The system cannot find the file VLC.
And I have both a USER and HOME set in config.sys.
Thanks for the help.

Dave Yeo

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Mar 17, 2010, 10:34:08 AM3/17/10
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You need to set BEGINLIBPATH to point to lib, it is vlc.dll that it
can't find.
Dave
Dave

Keith Marjerison

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Mar 29, 2010, 6:06:39 PM3/29/10
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Hello Dave;
That was it. After adding to libpath it will now start and load a file,
but it cannot play any of the mmedia files on my system. I have tried
avi, divx, mpg, vob, mov, all of witch work on linux and winxp versions.
It doesn't seem to read the plugins command line option so no codec support.
Thanks for your help.

Dave Saville

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May 4, 2010, 7:07:20 AM5/4/10
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On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 22:06:39 UTC, Keith Marjerison
<k.marj...@sasktel.net> wrote:
Lost the URL for this - Can someone repost it please?

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Dave Saville

Dave Saville

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May 4, 2010, 9:35:17 AM5/4/10
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On Tue, 4 May 2010 11:07:20 UTC, "Dave Saville" <da...@invalid.invalid>
wrote:

> On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 22:06:39 UTC, Keith Marjerison
> <k.marj...@sasktel.net> wrote:
> Lost the URL for this - Can someone repost it please?
>

Found it.

Streaming from a network camera that spits out mjpeg. If you just
point at the URL it fails as the camera requires user/password. If you
use --http-user it says "Warning: option --http-user" no longer exists
- but then puts up a dialog like a browser would. Without that
parameter you don't get the login prompt.

Once it is playing. Clicking the playing window X button does nothing.
You have to stop from the control window. Clicking the playing window
minimize button crashes the app.

Killed by SIGSEGV
pid=0x01f7 ppid=0x01f6 tid=0x0010 slot=0x00bc pri=0x020f mc=0x0001
D:\USR\LOCAL\BIN\VLC.EXE
SDL12 1:0002966d
cs:eip=005b:1535966d ss:esp=0053:04c8fc3c ebp=00000000
ds=0053 es=0053 fs=150b gs=0000 efl=00012246
eax=00000020 ebx=04bc3d78 ecx=04c8fc80 edx=00000500 edi=00000280
esi=04bc3da0
Process dumping was disabled, use DUMPPROC / PROCDUMP to enable it.

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Dave Saville

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