[vlc] Re: VLC and Mozilla Plugin with SUSE 9.3 Linux

[James Yates]

I am no expert but something to try would be do install a program called
APT. This does a similar to job to rpm except that it resolves
dependencies for you. Have a look, it is such a nice program. e.g apt-
get install videolan-client was all I needed when I first setup my box.

On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 15:28 +0200, Eisberg, Reinhard wrote:
> Hello,
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> I am a quite unexperienced Linux user.
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> Nevertheless I have set up a SUSE 9.3  Linux so far.
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> I seem to have (almost) successfully installed the VLC 0.8.1 client
> (VLC-0.8.1-0.pm.9.i686.rpm package) after resolving all the package
> dependencies.
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> When opening a network stream (udp unicast or multicast) I only can
> hear the sound, but there is no video when using the video codec mp4v 
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> on the sender side.
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> I have opened the message window and I am getting permanently the
> message:
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> Packetizer_mpeg4video warning: waiting for VOL
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> I have tried to use DIV3 on the sender side and everything is ok.
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> What is going wrong when receiving an mp4v encoded video ? 
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> Is there something missing or do I have to do some special
> configuration ?
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> And yet another question:
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> I have installed the packet vlc-0.8.1-0.pm.9.i686.rpm and vlc-
> mozillaplugin-0.8.1-0.pm.9.i686.rpm 
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> provided by Quentin Denis on SUSE 9.3.
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> Vlc itself seems to work so far, however I cannot get it working with
> the mozilla plugin neither with Mozilla itself nor with Firefox.
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> Both seem to be binary packages, therefore I guess there is nothing
> left to compile – but to configure ?
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> After installation I have found 2 files: libvlcplugin.so in
> the /opt/mozilla/lib/plugin folder and vlcintf.xpt in
> the /opt/mozilla/lib/components folder.
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> The path is correct ?
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> What else has to be done ?
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> Thank you in advance
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> With best regards
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> Reinhard Eisberg
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