fyi: vlc

[Pete Zaitcev]

On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 19:21:36 -0500, Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I tried FC5 vlc from livna, but it just gave a bunch of errors when started. 
> Then I tried videolan-client from freshrpms.   Better, but gave an error
> when trying to open my dvd.

Oh, hmm... I knew that Livna was horked for a while, but you're right,
videolan-client does not work either:

[zaitcev at lembas ~]$ vlc dvd://
VLC media player 0.8.4a Janus
libdvdnav: Using dvdnav version 0.1.10 from http://dvd.sf.net
libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.9 for DVD access
libdvdread: Can't stat
No such file or directory
libdvdnav: vm: faild to open/read the DVD
libdvdread: Can't stat
No such file or directory
[00000278] dvdread demuxer error: DVDRead cannot open source:
[00000277] main input error: no suitable access module for `dvd://'
[00000268] main playlist: nothing to play

The strace looks like this:

6263  open("/usr/lib/libdvdcss.so.2", O_RDONLY) = 10
6263  read(10, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0p\21\0\000"..., 512) = 512
6263  fstat64(10, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=31376, ...}) = 0
6263  mmap2(NULL, 36352, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 10, 0) = 0xb0da1000
6263  mmap2(0xb0da8000, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 10, 0x6) = 0xb0da8000
6263  close(10)                         = 0
6263  munmap(0xb0dd6000, 78291)         = 0
6263  write(2, "libdvdread: Using libdvdcss vers"..., 57) = 57
6263  stat64("", 0xb15f5f6c)            = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
6263  write(2, "libdvdread: Can\'t stat \n", 24) = 24 6263  write(2, "No such file or directory\n", 26) = 26
6263  write(1, "libdvdnav: vm: faild to open/rea"..., 42) = 42

> I grabbed the srpm from freshrpms, and (after d/l all the builddeps) it is
> rebuilt and working great.

Yeah, it seems like a rebuild time.

-- Pete