The package installs and is not functional. Why it's not functional is the package is missing .config/vlc/vlcrc so vlc has no clue how to do anything on a linux system. If a way exists for command line users of vlc to cause vlc to make a vlcrc file even if basic that would be a good addition to the vlc documentation on the archwiki. For whatever reason I couldn't get vlc-nox to install on this system error exit 4 manual intervention is needed. Was this manual intervention documented on arch-announce? I'll check the saved messages from that list to find out later. I have a vlcrc file I got from a contact on another list and found the vlcrc file I have enables vlc to work correctly to the extent I've used vlc so far. The vlcrc file I have is 83k in size so I can understand why videolan either omitted the documentation on how to build one of these ourselves when vlc is missing a vlcrc file or I didn't do a good enough web search with ddgr to find the documentation. -- Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." Ed Howdershelt 1940.
On Sun, 26 Nov 2023 20:56:47 -0500 Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com> wrote:
The package installs and is not functional. Why it's not functional is the package is missing .config/vlc/vlcrc so vlc has no clue how to do anything on a linux system.
Assuming you're talking in your home dir, the program has to do this itself at runtime. Pacman cannot do this for you.
For whatever reason I couldn't get vlc-nox to install on this system error exit 4 manual intervention is needed. Was this manual intervention documented on arch-announce?
If you didn't confuse your AUR helper for pacman, you'd realize that that error wasn't from pacman and has nothing to do with the repos or arch-announce.
Hello, If you want a command line media player, just use mpv. https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/mpv/ https://man.archlinux.org/man/mpv.1 I would recommend mpv over vlc any day, it is smaller, lightweight and just works. Hope this helps. Take care, -- Polarian GPG signature: 0770E5312238C760 Website: https://polarian.dev JID/XMPP: polarian@icebound.dev
rvlc can play stuff for command line users though vlc which is its root is more involved setting up. The mpv package only needed to know which output interface to use. -- Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." Ed Howdershelt 1940. On Mon, 27 Nov 2023, Polarian wrote:
Hello,
If you want a command line media player, just use mpv.
https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/mpv/ https://man.archlinux.org/man/mpv.1
I would recommend mpv over vlc any day, it is smaller, lightweight and just works.
Hope this helps.
Take care,
for me, after removing .config/vlc, vlc (using cvlc or nvlc) still plays fine. So does vlc-nox. As for vlc-nox there is a comment on AUR that says that build might fail if ffmpeg is already installed on the system On Mon, Nov 27, 2023, 06:20 Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com> wrote:
rvlc can play stuff for command line users though vlc which is its root is more involved setting up. The mpv package only needed to know which output interface to use.
-- Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." Ed Howdershelt 1940.
On Mon, 27 Nov 2023, Polarian wrote:
Hello,
If you want a command line media player, just use mpv.
https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/mpv/ https://man.archlinux.org/man/mpv.1
I would recommend mpv over vlc any day, it is smaller, lightweight and just works.
Hope this helps.
Take care,
I can remove ffmpeg and vlc from the system then try another install of vlc-nox, I'm curious to see if that works. -- Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." Ed Howdershelt 1940. On Mon, 27 Nov 2023, x choice wrote:
for me, after removing .config/vlc, vlc (using cvlc or nvlc) still plays fine. So does vlc-nox.
As for vlc-nox there is a comment on AUR that says that build might fail if ffmpeg is already installed on the system
On Mon, Nov 27, 2023, 06:20 Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com> wrote:
rvlc can play stuff for command line users though vlc which is its root is more involved setting up. The mpv package only needed to know which output interface to use.
-- Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." Ed Howdershelt 1940.
On Mon, 27 Nov 2023, Polarian wrote:
Hello,
If you want a command line media player, just use mpv.
https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/mpv/ https://man.archlinux.org/man/mpv.1
I would recommend mpv over vlc any day, it is smaller, lightweight and just works.
Hope this helps.
Take care,
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Doug Newgard
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Jude DaShiell
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Polarian
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x choice