vlc problems

[Christopher Johnson]

Bradley does your syslog contain io errors for your dvd drive by any chance?
If so I think it is the same issue I wrote about over the weekend.

Bradley M Alexander wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>Got a problem with vlc. I'm running the deb of 0.2.90-1, and I can start
>the program, I can select the disk and it spins up, but when I click play,
>the controller shows the progressbar, along with 
>
>DVD: Title: 1 Prev Next Chapter: 1 Prev Next
>
>which disappears after a second. No screen ever comes up, and the movie
>does not play. I have installed vlc, vlc-gtk, libdvdcss, libdvdcss-dev.
>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.
>
>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.
>
>Can anyone suggest what I can do to get these running on 0.2.90?
>
>Regards,
>