I emerged vlc-0.8.5 today succesfully, but when I start vlc from the command line (with or without file to play) no window appears. It consumes cpu time (almost 100% when running alone) and can be interupted by pushing CTRL-C, but nothing else happens. Output of the commandline is: === peter@pa3ebv ~/zoek $ vlc VLC media player 0.8.5 Janus signal 2 received, terminating vlc - do it again in case it gets stuck user insisted too much, dying badly Geannuleerd === Sorry for the sparse description, but at this moment I would not now what to tell more. I will add emerge --info below. Please give pointers how to determine what is going wrong. === pa3ebv ~ # emerge info Portage 2203-svn (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.4.5, glibc-2.3.6-r3, 2.6.16-gentoo-r3 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.16-gentoo-r3 i686 AMD Sempron(tm) 2800+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2 dev-python/pycrypto: [Not Present] dev-util/ccache: [Not Present] dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r1, 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -g -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/eselect/compiler /etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -g -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo/ http://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo/ ftp://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ ftp://194.117.143.71/mirrors/gentoo http://194.117.143.70" LC_ALL="nl_NL@euro" LINGUAS="us nl" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow 3dnowext Gtk X Xaw3d a52 aac acl alsa apm arts artswrappersuid audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bonobo bzip2 cdparanoia cdr cli crypt cups curl debug divx4linux dri dts dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode esd exif expat fam ffmpeg flac font-server foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm ggi gif glut gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile howl idn imagemagick imlib isdnlog jack java javascript jikes jpeg jpeg2k junit kde kig-scripting lcms ldap libg++ libwww logitech-mouse lzo mad matroska mikmod mjpeg mmx mmx2 mng motif mozilla mp3 mpeg ncurses nls odbc ogg oggvorbis openal opengl oss pam pcre pda pdflib perl plotutils png ppds pppd python qt quicktime readline reflection samba scanner sdk sdl session slang spell spl sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex theora threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb vcd vorbis wmf xine xml xml2 xmms xorg xprint xv xvid zlib linguas_us linguas_nl userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Did you set all USE Flags? -> http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-gentoo.html
Basically I set the USE flags mentioned on the home page of vlc for gentoo. Here is the output of emerge -pv vlc === Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ] media-video/vlc-0.8.5 -3dfx +X +a52 +aac -aalib +alsa (-altivec) +arts -avahi +bidi +cdda -cddb -corba -daap +debug -directfb +dts -dvb +dvd +esd -fbcon +ffmpeg +flac +ggi +gnutls -hal +httpd -libcaca -lirc +live +matroska -mod +mp3 +mpeg +ncurses +nls -nsplugin +ogg +opengl +oss +png -rtsp +samba -screen +sdl -shout +skins -speex +stream -svg +svga +theora +truetype -upnp -v4l +vcd +vlm +vorbis -win32codecs +wxwindows -xinerama +xml -xosd +xv 0 kB
qlist vlc | grep wx what does that shows you? (qlist is in portage-utils)
After emerging portage-utils I got ==== pa3ebv ~ # qlist vlc | grep wx /usr/bin/wxvlc /usr/lib/vlc/gui/libwxwidgets_plugin.so
I just got this again when I emerged 0.8.5 (I got it when moving to 0.8.4a too). Just remerge wxGTK followed by vlc and it'll be solved. Supposedly this bug was fixed, see bug 105189
I delved deeper and found that, on my system anyway, the failing was the recent DirectFB update. Run: vlc -v --reset-plugins-cache You should see the reason various components aren't loaded. I suggest remerging DirectFB.
Sorry to have jumped the gun. It looks like DirectFB is used by libsdl, which is used by VLC. DirectFB lib update breaks libsdl, which doesn't get picked up by revdep-rebuild on my system for some reason. Final suggestion: remerge libsdl I hope :)
Confirmed (though I had to run vlc --reset-plugins-cache after rebuilding libsdl to get the GUI back).
First of all I do not use directfb. I want vlc to run and display in a window. It always did until now. vlc -v --reset-plugins-cache gave the following output === peter@pa3ebv ~ $ vlc -v --reset-plugins-cache VLC media player 0.8.5 Janus [00000001] main vlc warning: config file /home/peter/.vlc/vlcrc does not exist yet [00000001] main vlc warning: cannot load module `/usr/lib/vlc/stream_out/libstream_out_switcher_plugin.so' (/usr/lib/vlc/stream_out/libstream_out_switcher_plugin.so: undefined symbol: avcodec_init) [00000001] main vlc warning: config file /home/peter/.vlc/vlcrc does not exist yet ====
The undefined symbol avcodec_init is in ffmpeg's libavcodec.so. It is where it is supposed to be in /usr/lib, so why can't vlc find it?
The avcodec error is probably a faulty link, I'll investigate that but it's another problem. Try rebuilding wxGTK and then rebuild vlc, it might be a problem with g++ upgrade.
I re-emerged wxGTK-2.6.3.2 and vlc, but the behaviour did not change. It hangs at the same point while eating all the available cpu time. BTW in the proces list I see 5 instances of vlc at that moment of which one is doing all the eating.
I miscounted the number of instances. In Top view I only saw 5 but in alphabetical view there are 7 instances. One originating parent, one child which again has five children. The originating parent is the one that eats all the cpu time.
# emerge -v libsdl # vlc --reset-plugins-cache fixed this problem for me.
Ok emerged libsdl again, but it did not help.
Hi, I have got the same kind problem with 0.8.4a (no gui, just cmd line) As directfb is in my uses flags, as it was recently updated, as previous post mention it. I decided to emerge -v libsdl wxGTK vlc and vlc works like before. ( wxGTK depends on libsdl)
Well, sorry to say. But that just does'nt work for me.
Used to have the same problem. This problem (for me) came after the re-emerging of libdc. To fix the problem I needed to link manually libdc1394_control.so to libdc1394_control.so.11 I don't know why but vlc wants libdc1394_control.so.11 and in new version of libdc, the name is libdc1394_control.so.12 Hope it will help you. PS: it always fixed xine :)
I am having a problem with vlc that I think might be related to this bug. When I initially set up my system, I emerged vlc-0.8.2-r2, which worked fine. After upgrading, the wxwidgets interface stopped appearing. I think this happened when I first emerged vlc-0.84a. At present I have vlc-0.85 and the problem persists. The behaviour is as follows: luser@localhost ~ $ vlc VLC media player 0.8.5 Janus Remote control interface initialized. Type `help' for help. At this point, the terminal stays where it is (i.e. it does not return to the prompt). The only way I've found to get out of it is to press Ctrl-C, which produces the following output: signal 2 received, terminating vlc - do it again in case it gets stuck status change: ( stop state: 0 ) status change: ( quit ) At this point the vlc process quits and I get the prompt back. Behaviour is similar when I issue a command like luser@localhost ~ $ vlc video.mpg & The video appears in an X window and plays. However the window doesn't contain any buttons or anything, just a title bar, a frame and the video. When the video reaches the end, the window disappears and vlc is left as a stopped process which I have to kill via fg followed by Ctrl-C. Obviously I was a little confused about the problem and tried to fix it. I found this bug report and tried some of the suggestions made. localhost ~ # emerge --pretend --verbose vlc These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ] media-video/vlc-0.8.5 -3dfx +X +a52 +aac -aalib +alsa (-altivec) +arts -avahi +bidi +cdda -cddb -corba -daap -debug -directfb +dts -dvb +dvd +esd +fbcon +ffmpeg +flac -ggi +gnutls +hal +httpd -libcaca -lirc +live +matroska -mod +mp3 +mpeg +ncurses +nls +nsplugin +ogg +opengl -oss +png -rtsp +samba -screen +sdl -shout -skins -speex +stream -svg +svga +theora +truetype -upnp -v4l +vcd +vlm +vorbis +win32codecs +wxwindows -xinerama -xml -xosd +xv 0 kB As you can see, I have the recommended use flags set. luser@localhost ~ $ qlist vlc | grep wx /usr/bin/wxvlc /usr/lib/vlc/gui/libwxwidgets_plugin.so I tried remerging libsdl and wxGTK, with no change in behaviour. I even tried downgrading back to vlc-0.8.2-r2, but even that didn't fix the problem. The final thing I tried was luser@localhost ~ $ vlc -v --reset-plugins-cache VLC media player 0.8.5 Janus [00000001] main vlc warning: config file /home/luser/.vlc/vlcrc does not exist yet [00000001] main vlc warning: cannot load module `/usr/lib/vlc/gui/libwxwidgets_plugin.so' (/usr/lib/libwx_baseu_net-2.6.so.0: undefined symbol: _ZNK11wxClassInfo8IsKindOfEPKS_) [00000001] main vlc warning: cannot load module `/usr/lib/vlc/codec/libquicktime_plugin.so' (/usr/lib/vlc/codec/libquicktime_plugin.so: undefined symbol: NewHandleClear) [00000001] main vlc warning: cannot load module `/usr/lib/vlc/stream_out/libstream_out_switcher_plugin.so' (/usr/lib/vlc/stream_out/libstream_out_switcher_plugin.so: undefined symbol: avcodec_init) [00000001] main vlc warning: config file /home/luser/.vlc/vlcrc does not exist yet So I can see that there is an undefined symbol in the module that is preventing it from loading, but I have absolutely no idea where to go from there. I'm guessing the other two errors are not related but I don't know for sure. The behaviour I get from vlc is not identical to that listed by Peter J. de Vrijer, as the vlc process uses very little CPU according to top - when I call it without a video file, it doesn't appear in top at all. If I call it with a video file it uses about 2% CPU, which disappears from top when the video finishes and its window closes. I have no idea what Matthieu AUBRY's comment is getting at, I ran updatedb and then used locate to search for the plugins he mentioned, but 'locate libdc1394_control.so', 'locate libdc1394_control.so.11' or 'locate libdc1394_control.so.12' all return nothing, even when run as root. Maybe it is something to do with xine, which I don't have installed. I am totally stumped. Hope some of this info is of some use in fixing the problem! luser@localhost ~ $ emerge --info Portage 2.0.54-r2 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.4.5, glibc-2.3.6-r3, 2.6.15-gentoo-r1 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.15-gentoo-r1 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2000+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2 dev-python/pycrypto: [Not Present] dev-util/ccache: [Not Present] dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -momit-leaf-frame-pointer -fno-ident" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/eselect/compiler /etc/gconf /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -momit-leaf-frame-pointer -fno-ident -fvisibility-inlines-hidden" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LINGUAS="en_GB en" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X alsa arts audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cli crypt curl divx4linux dri dts dvd eds emacs emboss encode esd exif expat fam fbcon ffmpeg flac fortran gd gdbm gif glut gmp gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 guile hal idn imagemagick imlib ipv6 isdnlog java jpeg kde kdeenablefinal lcms libg++ libwww mad matroska mikmod mng motif mp3 mpeg msn ncurses nls nptl nsplugin offensive ogg oggvorbis opengl pam pcre pdflib perl png pppd python qt quicktime readline reflection samba sdl session spell spl ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev usb vorbis xml2 xmms xorg xv xvid zlib linguas_en_GB linguas_en userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Hi GeekDog, I think your problem come from the -fvisibility-inlines-hidden CXXFlag. I experienced the same bug and I use this workaround : - I have compiled the testing version wxGTK-2.6.3.2 without this CXXFlag - I run vlc -v --reset-plugins-cache Now it's working fine I noticed the same bug with amule, it seems to be a wxWidget bug
Thanks Colin, that seems to have done the trick. Does anyone know if this has been submitted as a bug in wxwidgets? I can't find it on this bugzilla. If no-one thinks it's been submitted yet, I'll submit it.
> it on this bugzilla. If no-one thinks it's been submitted yet, I'll submit it. I was waiting for your confirmation I have just submited it : http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=137005
Sorry, I'd already submitted it too, forgot to post on this page. Apparently the wxWidgets bug is a duplicate of https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=127020 To sum up for everyone: don't use -fvisibility-inlines-hidden unless you know what you're doing. The vast majority of packages don't support it at the moment. You can read a bit more on the link, see comment #8. None of this seems to be related to the original bug posted by Peter J de Vrijer.
And alas, the bug is still there for me.
Hmm, somehow vlc starts up again. Still get some complains about missing wxWidgets plugin, see below Most recent re-emerges (updates) are of the packages ffmpeg (which did not help I believe) and libmp4v2. And now it works again. Hope this helps to find what was wrong. But vlc works again for me and perhaps this bug should be closed. ==== VLC media player 0.8.5 Janus [00000271] main dialogs provider error: no dialogs provider module matched "any" [00000268] skins2 interface error: no suitable dialogs provider found (hint: compile the wxWidgets plugin, and make sure it is loaded properly) [00000268] skins2 interface: skin: VLC 0.8.5 Default Skin author: aLtgLasS [00000262] main playlist: stopping playback ====
*** Bug 139378 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I just emerged vlc-0.8.4a-r1 and ran into the same problem (again). This solved it for me (again): # emerge -v --oneshot libsdl wxGTK vlc # vlc -v --reset-plugins-cache By the way, if you run vlc and your prompt doesn't return, vlc isn't hung; its in command-line a.k.a non-gui mode. You can type in commands and play videos at that point, or type 'quit' to exit. This might help: # vlc --help
You simply have to delete .vlc in your home-folder. Then vlc should appear normally.
That was my first idea, too, but it didn't help. I will try the other solutions later.
Hmm, after upgrading to gcc-4.1.1 and doing a 'emerge -e world' I tried vlc again. No succes it just does not create a gui. vlc -I ncurses works normally btw. As last resort I tried downgrading to 0.8.4a-r1. This seems to work ok. A gui appears and video's can be played. Is there anyone with new ideas how to get 0.8.5 work?
Re: Comment #30 I had a similiar problem after upgrading GCC. The root cause seems to be dependencies of wxGTK and/or vlc itself getting recompiled *after* wxGTK or vlc. In my case, I did this: $ vlc -v --reset-plugins-cache vlc complained about a pango/cairo symbol eeeded by the wxgtk plugin. So in my case, this fixed vlc: emerge -v --oneshot pango cairo libsdl wxGTK vlc So use the "--reset-plugins-cache" to figure out what is broken, use "emerge -s" to find the associated library ebuild, re-emerge the library (or libraries) FIRST, and then re-emerge vlc. A revdep-rebuild is probably in order once you are done.
Please give a try to 0.8.6_rc1 and if it's still an issue report upstream.
