[vlc] Re: no video window?

[Mitchell Mebane]

Try adding ffmpeg to your USE flags and re-emerge VLC.

--Mitchell Mebane

Zhang Weiwu wrote:

> (Sorry for disturbing, Jason Wever. I just cc you in case I am doing 
> stupid things without expert suggestions.)
>
> Hello. I am a gentoo linux user just compiled VLC from source (not 
> looking for trouble - in gentoo linux everything compiles from 
> source). Currently vlc plays music just fine. On playing video (I 
> tried both mpeg2 and DIV3 in avi format), only the sound, no video, no 
> error message. Look into format window my video format and size is 
> correctly detected.
>
> This is the first time I try using VLC, so perhaps I didn't do some 
> basic homework for the video? I tried XV, X11, OPENGL video output, 
> none of them produce video (to make sure I restarted VLC each time I 
> change video output). Do I need to send a screenshot?
>
> I read the play-howto without digging out any useful information:(
>
> My environment is: /home/zhangweiwu> uname -a
> Linux juanita 2.4.27-sparc-r1 #1 SMP Thu Dec 9 22:02:17 CST 2004 
> sparc64 sun4u TI UltraSparc II  (BlackBird) GNU/Linux
> I am using gentoo-linux-sparc 2004.3 running gnome 2.6, kernel 2.4. 
> VLC is masked as 'unstable' package on gentoo-linux (but on vlc 
> website gentoo-linux part, it's suggested I install 'unstable' 
> version). Here is my emerge -info information (useful for other gentoo 
> people detect my problem)
>
> Portage 2.0.51-r8 (default-linux/sparc/sparc64/2004.3, gcc-3.3.5, 
> glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r2, 2.4.27-sparc-r1 sparc64)
> =================================================================
> System uname: 2.4.27-sparc-r1 sparc64 sun4u
> Gentoo Base System version 1.6.7
> Python:              dev-lang/python-2.3.4 [2.3.4 (#1, Dec 12 2004, 
> 23:28:29)]
> dev-lang/python:     2.3.4
> sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r6
> sys-devel/automake:  1.8.5-r2, 1.5, 1.4_p6, 1.9.3, 1.6.3, 1.7.9
> sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.92.0.2-r1
> sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.2-r7
> virtual/os-headers:  2.4.23
> ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="sparc"
> ASFLAGS=""
> AUTOCLEAN="yes"
> CBUILD=""
> CFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=ultrasparc -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
> CHOST="sparc-unknown-linux-gnu"
> CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config 
> /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown 
> /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref 
> /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
> CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
> CTARGET=""
> CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=ultrasparc -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
> DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
> FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks fixpackages sandbox"
> GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.gentoo.or.kr/ http://gentoo.gg3.net/"
> LANG="zh_CN.UTF-8"
> LC_ALL=""
> LDFLAGS=""
> MAKEOPTS="-j2"
> PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
> PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
> PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
> PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
> SYNC="rsync://rsync.asia.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
> USE="sparc X acl apache2 berkdb bidi bitmap-fonts cdparanoia cjk crypt 
> cups curl dba dga dlloader encode esd f77 faad fam fbcon flac 
> font-server foomaticdb fortran freetype gcc64 gd gdbm gif gnome gpm 
> gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml iconv icq imagemagick imap imlib java jpeg 
> libwww mad matroska mikmod motif mozilla mozsvg mpeg msn mysql ncurses 
> nls offensive ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt 
> readline sdl session speex spell ssl svg tcltk tcpd tiff truetype 
> truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb utf8 vorbis wxwindows xaa xine 
> xml2 xv yahoo zlib"
>
>


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