[vlc] Re: Zaurus 5500 - No Sound?

[Jean-Paul Saman]

Masiyowski, John wrote:
>  > -----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.

Look if libasound* exists in /lib or /usr/lib. If not then I'm sure you 
use OSS as sound layer.

>  > > The library was installed, I have the premissions set to
>  > rwx for all...

They should not be that but rwxr-xr-x instead and owned by root.

>  > 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

This is the wrong location for these plugins.

> 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.
> 
It is in the wrong place, librt is part of glibc and not of vlc. If you 
put the file in the /usr/lib/vlc/ directory VLC thinks it is one of its 
plugins and looks for that symbol.

The file should go into the directory: /lib/librt-2.1.3.so

-- 
Kind greetings,

Jean-Paul Saman

VLC iPaq maintainer


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