[vlc] Re: Linux framebuffer problems

[Jan Ekholm]

On Fri, 21 May 2004, Jean-Paul Saman wrote:

>Jan Ekholm wrote:
>
>>On Fri, 21 May 2004, Gildas Bazin wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>On Friday 21 May 2004 08:09, Jan Ekholm wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Yup, although /dev/fb0 is the default. Nevertheless, I tried it too.
>>>>
>>>>However, it seems the framebuffer isn't the way to go today, it seems to
>>>>be far too much work. Even getting vlc to actually show an image for
>>>>anything non-trivial is extremely hard. Yes, I still can't get anything to
>>>>actually show up when using DVB. :)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>Did you try with the recent DVB changes ? Part of the DVB input was
>>>rewritten a couple of weeks ago and it is supposed to be more reliable now.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>Yes, I think a small part of those changes were due to my whining... :)
>>Tuning works great, but I can't seem to get anything to really show up.
>>Playing local files (.avi, .mpg etc) works perfectly.
>>
>>
>>
>Did you go to the menu View|Program ? There is a list of PID that are
>found in the stream. Be warned not all can be played, because currently
>VLC shows every PID in the stream. So not only Audio and Video, but also
>Teletext, network and others.

I have no UI at all, only the textbased weird one. I left out all weird
stuff when compiling so all fancy (and unneeded) UI:s probably went MIA.
The point is that I can't present an UI to the user, it all has to be done
on the command line or a config file. Is the --program option still valid?

-- 
  The trouble with being a god is that you've got no one to pray to.
                                        -- Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

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