Comments on: Compiling VLC

By: alex

alex — Sun, 16 Jul 2006 19:47:45 +0000

XVideo

Successfully built on ubuntu dapper. wmv works. woo hoo! However all playback was pixelated. Eventually figured out that the XVideo output module works better with my video card – laptop built-in Intel 82852/855GM. Fixed thus:

install the libxv-dev libxvmc-dev packages
reconfigure vlc with –enable-xvideo
rebuild, reinstall

Not sure if all of those steps were required, but it worked. Now vlc defaults to XVideo output, no more pixelation, wmv still works. Sorry I didn’t take notes – besides the above I had to tweak a few things here and there.

One other note: this build installed to /usr/local/bin/vlc so it didn’t overwrite the previous version (0.8.4) installed from the repository to /usr/bin/vlc . Both versions seem to run fine, but this could easily be confusing – check help > about – your freshly-built version will say “compiled by [your name]@[your hostname]“

By: TheHighChild

TheHighChild — Thu, 18 May 2006 10:18:16 +0000

Kubuntu Dapper Drake Test Release 7 x86_64

Everything works great! Playback is fine. The only thing outside of the guide that I had to do was initiate the following commands with sudo
$ cp VC1_reference_decoder_release6/decoder/*.[ch] libvc1-1.0/src/.
$ cp VC1_reference_decoder_release6/shared/*.[ch] libvc1-1.0/src/.

Once I did that, everything went smooth. When I intiate vlc from the command line, it does not playback WMV9 but when I initiate wxvlc everything works like a champ. I don’t know the difference but that’s ok for now.

/Sleep

By: Eric

Eric — Tue, 16 May 2006 16:24:55 +0000

I could compile it with osx – but wmv9 support still did not work.

could somebody release a binary of vlc with vc1 on osx-intel?

thanks a lot.
eric

By: Sanjay

Sanjay — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 14:38:50 +0000

http://www.multimedia.cx/VC1_reference_decoder_release6.zip

is now openning and file is available

By: ayushman

ayushman — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 05:20:11 +0000

Anybody got a copy of the VC1 reference decoder code? The link does not help. Any other link to it?

By: Lasse

Lasse — Sat, 11 Mar 2006 15:18:34 +0000

Bogger…
Followed this great howto, but at the end… I am not able to play wmv9 files. The file opens up, but I do not get any picture… The sound works perfect, but the picture is just a big black box… Any ideas?

By: coyctecm

coyctecm — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 21:04:41 +0000

I have amd64 version of ubuntu breezy and I installed packages with apt everything works fine expect mozilla-vlc-plugin doesn’t work. When I start to play some video from internet “no picture” reads and nothing is shown. If I download that video clip it’s playing fine. Like http://www.apple.com/trailers/ are not playing with mozilla-plugin…

By: Jon Gunnar Rue

Jon Gunnar Rue — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 13:07:03 +0000

MainframeGuy

The version found in the Breezy via synaptic,has it got support for wmv9?That the point with building this package.

By: shawn

shawn — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 20:41:22 +0000

I built this free thing (VC1) in my free time for the sake of free blah blah blah. So now just pay for it.
Thank you Mr. Gates

By: MainframeGuy

MainframeGuy — Sun, 12 Feb 2006 21:36:55 +0000

I did all this – managed to find the required bits – get to the ./configure and that fails for breezy ubuntu – so i suspect synaptics – go there and lo and behold – VLC is already there to select for a reinstall! Which I have done and it works …. so if you are on breezy Badger 5.10 you may wish to bear this in mind….