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yleberre

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Registered: 2013-06-09

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[SOLVED] vlc & fluidsynth

What is the reason to suppress fluidsynth codec in  vlc ?
Is there another midi codec available ?

Thanks.

Last edited by yleberre (2013-08-08 20:51:13)

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

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Re: [SOLVED] vlc & fluidsynth

https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/34453 ?

Can you describe your problem in more detail?

yleberre

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Re: [SOLVED] vlc & fluidsynth

vlc 2.0.6-2 allowed playing midi files.
from 2.0.7-1, fluidsynth is not selectable in preferences (audio codecs) and playing midi files through SF2 soundfonts is no more available.

karol

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Re: [SOLVED] vlc & fluidsynth

Ah, yes: https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit … 08644b6d5f

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/vlc-git/ still has fluidsynth as an optdepend http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=zMKKs08F
If this doesn't work, please leave a comment on vlc-git AUR page and edit https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/MIDI#VLC accordingly.

I know nothing about VLC or MIDI so I'm afraid I can't help much.

yleberre

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Re: [SOLVED] vlc & fluidsynth

[SOLVED] Thanks for the links. I will try vlc-git-PKGBUILD july 28 2013.

karol

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Re: [SOLVED] vlc & fluidsynth

I'm not sure I get it. Did you try vlc-git and it worked? No need to mark as solved unless you're positive that it really does work.

yleberre

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Re: [SOLVED] vlc & fluidsynth

Installed vlc-git, played midi files, flv clips, avi, mkv : seems OK.

karol

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Re: [SOLVED] vlc & fluidsynth

OK then, please remember to mark the thread as solved https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=130309

sitquietly

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Re: [SOLVED] vlc & fluidsynth

[SOLVED] Thanks for the links. I will try vlc-git-PKGBUILD july 28 2013.

It is not necessary to use the -git version from AUR if all you want is to enable fluidsynth.  That's why we have ABS -- so that packages can be compiled with custom configurations.  You can get the buildscript (the PKGBUILD) for Arch vlc from abs (or download it from the web page), edit the PKGBUILD to add fluidsynth, and makepkg.  There you are running the current Arch release of vlc with fluidsynth support!

For example my PKGBUILD for vlc has

  ./configure --prefix=/usr \
      --sysconfdir=/etc \
      --disable-rpath \
      --disable-oss' \
      --enable-faad \
      --enable-nls \
      --enable-lirc \
      --enable-pvr \
      --enable-ncurses \
      --enable-realrtsp \
      --enable-xosd \
      --enable-aa \
      --enable-vcdx \
      --enable-upnp \
      --enable-opus \
      --enable-sftp \
      LUAC=luac5.1 \
      RCC=/usr/bin/rcc-qt4 \
      --disable-live555 \
      --disable-postproc \
      --disable-v4l2 \
      --disable-fluidsynth \
      --disable-mod \
      --disable-smb'

Just edit the configure command to "--enable-fluidsynth" (and add 'fluidsynth' to the depends() list).