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firewalker

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VLC 0.9.2 is out.

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

After two years in development, VLC, the universal media player, has moved from the 0.8.x versions to version 0.9.2. The release, named "Grishenko", is available for Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and other operating systems, is available to download from the Videolan web site. The most visible new feature in the Windows and Linux versions is a new user interface. The new interface uses Qt4, replacing the previous wxWidgets-based interface as the default interface and allowing for better internationalisation and a richer set of graphical controls.

http://www.heise-online.co.uk/news/VLC- … x--/111527

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haxit

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Re: VLC 0.9.2 is out.

Compiling as we speak.

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moljac024

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Re: VLC 0.9.2 is out.

Seems to me that in a few release this will be the ultimate media player for both audio and video. A nice direction. All they need now is a library feature.

How will this switch to Qt4 fare for us GTK+ users btw ?

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haxit

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Re: VLC 0.9.2 is out.

Here is how it looks in Arch:

http://dump.stoleyour.net/uploads/41492f92ff.png

Last edited by haxit (2008-09-15 22:46:43)

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kensai

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Re: VLC 0.9.2 is out.

Seems to me that in a few release this will be the ultimate media player for both audio and video. A nice direction. All they need now is a library feature.

How will this switch to Qt4 fare for us GTK+ users btw ?

I must say that using VirtualBox on GNOME, it looks awesome and the performance is better than that of a GTK application, at least for me using the latest nVIDIA beta driver, which focuses on QT and KDE4 problems. And is worth noticing that it depends on QT not KDE, if it also depended on KDE then it would be another story. All in all, I'm impressed by the performance of QT under GNOME, as I said, it performs better than my native GTK applications.

Oh, and I hope this one works well with subtitles under Linux. You know, I want to appreciate the movie with non-english speakers.

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jdhore

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Re: VLC 0.9.2 is out.

Seems to me that in a few release this will be the ultimate media player for both audio and video. A nice direction. All they need now is a library feature.

How will this switch to Qt4 fare for us GTK+ users btw ?

I'd say it would be better for us GTK users cuz if you install QGtkStyle, it makes Qt4 apps fit your GTK theme almost perfectly

moljac024

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Re: VLC 0.9.2 is out.

I wasn't thinking about dependencies but consistent desktop look. And how the blazes does one configure Qt without KDE installed ??? Qtconfig seems limited and no matter what I do VirtualBox looks like crap on my desktop....

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kensai

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Re: VLC 0.9.2 is out.

I wasn't thinking about dependencies but consistent desktop look. And how the blazes does one configure Qt without KDE installed ??? Qtconfig seems limited and retarded. VirtualBox looks like sh*t on my desktop....

Are you using the PUEL latest edition from the AUR. It looks slick on my system. For me it looks consistent, and is even using my native GTK color.

EDIT: Yeah, I'm very pleased with the way QT looks in GNOME or a GTK environment right now.

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Re: VLC 0.9.2 is out.

Hmmm.. Can't wait to try it.
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Re: VLC 0.9.2 is out.

from changelog: fixed
* MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)

now vlc doesnt suck anymore.

BTW when will the extra repository be updated with new version ?

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Re: VLC 0.9.2 is out.

Do subtitles still suck on Linux?  That made me switch to mplayer where I am now a happy camper.

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tonyisnt

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Re: VLC 0.9.2 is out.

I'd give it a try, but I've been happy with SMplayer for quite some time.  My only experience with VLC is actually on Windows and once with a Mac.  And since I never knew I could change qt apps (qtconfig) I'm happy to now have my fonts getting along, too.

heinz

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Re: VLC 0.9.2 is out.

Digital sound output of either AC3 or DTS over SPDIF sucked last time I tried. And, as I'm heavily using subtitles VLC was no match for mplayer's visual quality. I'm pretty curious if those issues have been improved.

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Re: VLC 0.9.2 is out.

Do subtitles still suck on Linux?  That made me switch to mplayer where I am now a happy camper.

Would be a very happy gnome-mplayer user if mplayer where able to play isos or even better rar-archived movies. As it is now it is'nt able to use the menues or even extract subtitles from an iso.
VLC is the only player that I know of that are able to that.

heinz

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Re: VLC 0.9.2 is out.

Would be a very happy gnome-mplayer user if mplayer where able to play isos or even better rar-archived movies. As it is now it is'nt able to use the menues or even extract subtitles from an iso.
VLC is the only player that I know of that are able to that.

AFAIR playing isos can be achieved with mplayer dvd:// -dvd-device /somedir/someimage.iso. VLC however does handle menues.

Last edited by heinz (2008-09-16 09:18:53)

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Re: VLC 0.9.2 is out.

<3 VLC

Have you noticed that among the 0.9.2 screenshots there is an Arch screeny?

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moljac024

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Re: VLC 0.9.2 is out.

<3 VLC

Have you noticed that among the 0.9.2 screenshots there is an Arch screeny?

How do you figure that to be an Arch screeny ?

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lman

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Re: VLC 0.9.2 is out.

<3 VLC

Have you noticed that among the 0.9.2 screenshots there is an Arch screeny?

How do you figure that to be an Arch screeny ?

maybe because it's kdemod

zyghom

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Re: VLC 0.9.2 is out.

maybe because there is written: "Arch Linux - KDE 4 - Qt interface, album art and simple preferences
(1680x1050) "

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lucke

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Re: VLC 0.9.2 is out.

It says it's Arch in a description.

sacamano_m82

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Re: VLC 0.9.2 is out.

Do subtitles still suck on Linux?  That made me switch to mplayer where I am now a happy camper.

Would be a very happy gnome-mplayer user if mplayer where able to play isos or even better rar-archived movies. As it is now it is'nt able to use the menues or even extract subtitles from an iso.
VLC is the only player that I know of that are able to that.

You can mount the iso using loopback and play it as a dvd using mplayer.
Like: mplayer dvd:// -dvd-device <mount_point>

Now you can choose among the various subtitles/aids that the dvd supports.

atomkarinca

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Re: VLC 0.9.2 is out.

I tried this version and I should say it's a little unstable for VLC.

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firewalker

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Re: VLC 0.9.2 is out.

Any PKGBUILD file?

Last edited by firewalker (2008-09-16 12:42:11)

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bangkok_manouel

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Re: VLC 0.9.2 is out.

This one should work:
http://pastebin.com/m30aa16cb

You just have to adjust the --with-tuning flag to your cpu (or simply remove this option)

vlc.install :
http://pastebin.com/m7cbdf83b

Last edited by bangkok_manouel (2008-09-16 14:52:30)

Rasi

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Re: VLC 0.9.2 is out.

This one should work:
http://pastebin.com/m30aa16cb

You just have to adjust the --with-tuning flag to your cpu (or simply remove this option)

somehow i am unable to find the error...

[carnager@freebox vlc]$ makepkg                                                                                   
: command not found

==> FEHLER: An unknown error has occured. Exiting..

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