[vlc] VLC and Jack

[Susan Dridi]

Rafaël Carré wrote:
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> Susan Dridi a écrit :
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I am using 64 Studio as my Linux distro, but I really like the VLC
>> player, so I installed it from Debian (64 Studio is a remix of Debian,
>> so it's all compatible.)
>>
>> Anyway, I recently upgraded my sound card to a Presonus Firepod. The
>> device works great with the freebob driver, and I can get great sound
>> out of anything that uses Jack.
>>
>> I see that there's a Debian ticket to compile VLC with Jack enabled. But
>> it hasn't happened yet. So, I am wondering if there is a pre-compiled
>> version of VLC elsewhere that has Jack support and that would work on a
>> Debian system? I don't think that I'm up to compiling VLC myself.
>>
>> Any help would be appreciated. I'm currently using Totem to play audio
>> and video, but I really don't like it as well. But it uses Jack.

> You can get nightly builds at http://nightlies.videolan.org/#debian
> Jack support is into, but maybe not precompiled
> 
> But you still can do apt-get source vlc, modify debian/rules to add
> - --enable-jack flag, and dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -rfakeroot

Hi Rafael,

Thanks for the tip!

One more question - do I need to use Debian unstable or can I get the 
source from Etch or do I need to use the videolan repository? I'd like 
to stay synced with Debian security updates, though maybe for something 
I compile myself, that wouldn't apply.

Thanks again,

-Susan