[vlc] Issue with XML support and .SRT subtitles not working

Brad Smith brad at comstyle.com
Fri Sep 13 02:30:42 CEST 2013


On 30/08/13 10:02 AM, Brad Smith wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am looking for any assistance in trying to determine why the .SRT
> subtitless support is not working with VLC on OpenBSD. VLC as provided
> via the OpenBSD port / package seems to print the following error upon
> starting up...
>
> $ vlc
> VLC media player 2.0.8 Twoflower (revision 2.0.8a-0-g68cf50b)
> [0x13d9eb816d58] main xml reader error: XML reader not found
>
> Searching for this error I came across hits via Google indicating that
> some other OS's do not necessarily build with libxml2 support depending
> on certain conditions like Gentoo's USE flags and enabling the libxml2
> support resolved the message and the non working .SRT subtitles support,
> but OpenBSD's port / package builds with libxml2 unconditionally.
>
> Any suggestions?

Anyone? especially the developers who would be more familiar with the 
internals of VLC. I'd really like to have the sub-titles support working.

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