Videolan for Windows does not work

[Jeffrey Cobb]

Hi Sean,

One thing I discovered with most of these programs is you have to compile
them for your machine.  Video Lan is the only one I've gotten to work for
me.

Here's the options I use when I put Video Lan together:

You need these files:
vlc-0.2.91.tar.gz
libdvdread-0.9.2.tar.gz
sdl-1.2.3.tar.gz

Extract these files (they'll most likely create their own directories).

Install libdvdread first by switching to its directory and typing:
./configure
make
make install

Install sdl the same way.

Install Video Lan Client like so:
./configure --prefix=/usr --with-sdl-config-path=/usr/bin --enable-gnome
make vlc
make install

You can run Video Lan from console by typing "vlc".  If it works then you
can create a shortcut to your desktop for it.

When you run Video Lan you need to click "disk" then type in the drive that
is your dvd drive.  Most likely your's is listed in "/etc/fstab" as "cdrom"
or something like that.  I've configured my block devices to have my dvd
drive show up as "dvd".  VLC works fine with this.

Anyway, if you can get the program to run after compiling it, you're halfway
there!

Lemme know how it goes.

Jeff

----- Original Message -----
From: Zhixiang Hu <HuZ at MD.AHP.COM>
To: <vlc at videolan.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 11:44 AM
Subject: Videolan for Windows does not work


Hi,

Thanks for offering your free DVD player. After I downloaded Videolan (for
Windows) on to my Notebook, I realized that it did not work on my computer
running Wondows 98. There was sound, but no picture. Do you have any idea
what went wrong?

Keep up the good work, and best regards!

Sean