vlc problems

[Christophe Massiot]

On Tue, Oct 23, 2001, Bradley M Alexander wrote:

> Note that I am running this on a 1GHz Athlon, kernel 2.4.9, and using
> devfs. Since I have a DVD drive and a CD-RW drive, I have to use SCSI
> emulation. So the device for the DVD is
> /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/cd. I tried setting this in preferences,
> but it reverts back to /dev/dvd.

Try using :
vlc dvd:/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/cd

> Another problem is that on my powermac G3 laptop, 0.2.83 works, though the
> video is choppy. I compiled this one from source. I then installed the deb
> of 0.2.90-1 on that machine and the picture is smooth as silk, but I have
> no sound.

Which output plug-in do you use ? Run vlc with -vvvv and see if there is
an error message related to audio.

-- 
Christophe Massiot.