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molni

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From: Slovakia

Registered: 2007-06-19

Posts: 12

VLC problem [SOLVED]

Hello,
i have a problem and can't solve it alone. (because no exact posts in whole arch forum )
I would like to see our local network IPTV with my arch box. But problem is that I need (i get confirmation from service provider) mozilla-vlc-plugin. When I made

pacman -S vlc

, it didn't solve it for me. While in Ubuntu distribution for example I can install it separately (whole mozilla-vlc-plugin).
I have tried to get vlc package from http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-archlinux.html and configured it like this:

 ./configure --enable-mozilla

but I got result:

checking for FIREFOX... no
checking for mozilla-config... no
checking for seamonkey-config... no
checking for xulrunner-config... no
configure: error: Please install the Mozilla development tools, mozilla-config was not found.

So now I really don't know what to do..I am beginner like..;)
Could anyone please help?

Last edited by molni (2009-02-17 08:46:53)

FeatherMonkey

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Registered: 2007-02-26

Posts: 313

Re: VLC problem [SOLVED]

Think you need to use the abs, http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ABS

Once that's up and running I presume as I've got vlc installed you should now find vlc here /var/abs/extra/multimedia/vlc now add the line you wish to pkgbuild.

Follow the howto abs, end up with a local pkg, and install local pkg with pacman. At least this what I think would be the easiest way, and hopefully the correct way. Perhaps someone will correct me if I'm wrong.

molni

Member

From: Slovakia

Registered: 2007-06-19

Posts: 12

Re: VLC problem [SOLVED]

Really need to say, I used ABS first time, followed the wiki article you gave me.
I edited PKGBUILD in my /var/abs/local/vlc and run "makepkg" but with the following error:

[root@myhost vlc]# makepkg
==> Making package: vlc 0.8.6c-1 (Sun Jul 22 18:03:43 CEST 2007)
==> Checking Runtime Dependencies...
==> Checking Buildtime Dependencies...

==> Missing Dependencies:
   -> live-media
   -> libmodplug
==> ERROR: could not resolve all dependencies.

So I installed thes packages and run "makepkg" again, now it goes, but with the same error:

checking for FIREFOX... no
checking for mozilla-config... no
checking for seamonkey-config... no
checking for xulrunner-config... no
configure: error: Please install the Mozilla development tools, mozilla-config was not found.
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.
==> ERROR: Build Failed.  Aborting...

Any thoughts?

fancris3

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Registered: 2007-03-18

Posts: 67

Re: VLC problem [SOLVED]

Its a PKGBUILD here : http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/6247

molni

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From: Slovakia

Registered: 2007-06-19

Posts: 12

Re: VLC problem [SOLVED]

I installed xulrunner and then "makepkg" run normally without errors. So i installed package by "pacman -A vlc-0.8.6c-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz" and it looks it will be fine. But still nothing changed, mozilla-vlc-plugin is still missing for firefox.. so I can't use it regularly. Still some thoughts?

karsten

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Registered: 2006-07-14

Posts: 261

Re: VLC problem [SOLVED]

looks like you have to install the plugin manually for it

Comment by Olivier Lebrun (olebrun) - Thursday, 01 February 2007, 08:39 GMT-4
Have you put the libvlcplugin.so in /opt/mozilla/lib/plugins/ by hand ? the PKGBUILD don't do it (the line
is commented because I'm not if it's good).

I use the yesterday nightly Subversion snapshots of ffmpeg (because the svn it very slow).
Comment by Börje Holmberg (linfan) - Thursday, 01 February 2007, 19:06 GMT-4
ok, got it to work, but it won't play quicktime. installed all the *.so from codec but then it just kept crashing. Now I have installed Mediaplayerconnectivity in firefox and have no plugins at all. This is much better. I have uninstalled all -svn's and use vlc for streaming radio as it doesn't show any movies as it is.

Good luck in your further work.

Last edited by karsten (2007-07-22 19:29:53)

molni

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From: Slovakia

Registered: 2007-06-19

Posts: 12

Re: VLC problem [SOLVED]

Ok, Thank you all! Great it's working now like it suppose to work!
I only did that (continued to previous steps):

cp /var/abs/local/vlc/src/vlc-0.8.6c/mozilla/libvlcplugin.so /opt/mozilla/lib/plugins/

Maybe not useless for others: While I was editing PKGBUILD file I only add there --enable-mozilla
Thank's to great community, one more satisfied ARCH user.
Just one more thing - how can I give SOLVED flag to this article?