[vlc] Re: Zaurus 5500 - No Sound?

[Masiyowski, John]

Jean,

see below...

Regards,
John

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jean-Paul Saman [mailto:saman at natlab.research.philips.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 12:07 PM
> To: vlc at videolan.org
> Subject: [vlc] Re: Zaurus 5500 - No Sound?
> 
> Masiyowski, John wrote:
> >  > Masiyowski, John wrote:
> >  > > Hello,
> >  > >
> >  > > I have installed vlc on a Sharp Zaurus SL-5500.  I am 
> able to obtain
> >  > > video, but no sound via the headphones.
> >  > > The build in media player on the Zaurus is able to 
> play an mpeg movie
> >  > > (video and audio) just fine.
> >  > > I have included the logs from both the SL-5600 version 
> of the Zaurus
> >  > > which plays the same file just fine, and from
> >  > > the SL-5500 which there is no audio..  Any clues?
> >  >
> >  > Does SL-5500 use ALSA sound layer for sound? VLC 0.5.3 
> uses OSS sound
> >  > layer and is not capable of ALSA yet.
> >  >
> >  > The way solve it for you is installing the alsa oss emulation and
> >  > configuring it in the right way.
> 
> This was an answer in the case your Zauras uses ALSA instead 
> of OSS. I 
> should have been more clear here ;-)

I am not sure which sound layer is being used...  I have ask Sharp that
question.

> 
> > Do you know where can a pre-built version of alsa be found 
> for the Zaurus?
> Sorry, no. But if you do not have ALSA on the Zaurus then you do not 
> need it. VLC 0.5.3 only uses OSS.
> 
> >  > I made some comments in the vlc log. You miss the library
> >  > librt, go and
> >  > get it from the zaurus download page.
> > 
> > The library was installed, I have the premissions set to 
> rwx for all...
> > not sure whatelse to do?
> 
> What is the files name and its location?
> VLC requires the specific version 2.1.3. If you have another version 
> then try:  ln -s /lib/librt-<yourversion>.so /lib/librt-2.1.3.so

there are two files in /usr/lib/vlc

librt-2.1.3.so
librt.so.1 -> librt-2.1.3.so

> 
>  >  > > file `/usr/lib/vlc/librt-2.1.3.so' (/usr/bin/vlc: 
> undefined symbol:
>  >  > > _vlc_entry__0_5_3)

Form the error description, I beleive that the file is there, but the symbol
_vlc_entry__0_5_3 is not found within.

>  >  >
>  >  > Install librt from the package on
>  >  > www.videolan.org/vlc/download-zaurus.html it is needed by vlc !
> 
> -- 
> Kind greetings,
> Jean-Paul Saman
> VLC iPaq maintainer.
 
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