Mandriva Linux 2008 - How to install VLC player with all codecs?

[brokenwings]

Hello,

I am a new user, having trouble installing VLC and make it work for me. Could someone tell me what's the easiest way to install VLC and all codecs to make it play everything its capable of?
(I am using Mandriva Linux 2008.)

Many thanks,
A. Malik

[daark.child]

Go to easyurpmi and setup the various main, contrib, updates and plf repos. After that start the GUI software manager and search for vlc, libdvdcss and win32-codecs.

[budman7]

Moved to Mandriva section.

[brokenwings]

sorry budman for posting at the wrong place (Just couldn't see Mandriva's section)

@dark child!
I added all those repos using easy urpmi. But when I select VLC, I see this message!

Sorry, the following package cannot be selected:

- vlc-0.8.6c-3plf2008.0.i586 (due to unsatisfied libebml.so.0)

What do you think could be the possible solution to this?

Cheers,
Malik

[daark.child]

Try entering the commands

#uprmi.update -a
#urpmi libebml
#urpmi vlc

Post back any error messages

[brokenwings]

Hello daark.child,

First command seems to be ok, however, here is the out put of others!

# urpmi libebml
No package named libebml
# urpmi vlc
A requested package cannot be installed:
vlc-0.8.6c-3plf2008.0.i586 (due to unsatisfied libebml.so.0)

Probably I am a missing a repo, what do you say?

Cheers!

[daark.child]

Try

#urpmi libebml0

If you have the contrib repo for Mandriva 2008, then libebml should be installed. You can also download it from here.

[brokenwings]

Hello again,

I installed VLC, win32-codecs, libdvdcss sucessfully.
But whenever I open a video file with VLC it shuts down itself in a second. How to fix?

Many thanks,
Malik

[daark.child]

Start VLC from a terminal emulator like Konsole, open a video file and post back the error message that gets printed on the screen.

[boom_boom]

Hi everyone!

i've got the same problem as BrokenWings, when i try to run VLC, it seems that it's gonna open but it closes in less than a sec.

Running from Konsole, i got an output like:

(......)
b7f14000-b7f23000 rwxp 001a8000 03:48 483521 /usr/lib/libvlc.so.0.0.0
b7f23000-b7f32000 rwxp b7f23000 00:00 0
b7f32000-b7f33000 r-xp 00000000 03:48 637695 /usr/lib/vlc/video_chroma/libi420_ymga_plugin.so
b7f33000-b7f34000 rwxp 00000000 03:48 637695 /usr/lib/vlc/video_chroma/libi420_ymga_plugin.so
b7f34000-b7f37000 r-xp 00000000 03:48 474502 /usr/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so.0.1400.1
b7f37000-b7f38000 rwxp 00002000 03:48 474502 /usr/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so.0.1400.1
b7f38000-b7f3f000 r-xs 00000000 03:48 473636 /usr/lib/gconv/gconv-modules.cache
b7f3f000-b7f40000 r-xp 00000000 03:48 490331 /usr/share/locale/en_US.UTF-8/LC_MESSAGES/SYS_LC_MESSAGES
b7f40000-b7f59000 r-xp 00000000 03:48 718093 /lib/ld-2.6.1.so
b7f59000-b7f5a000 r-xp 00018000 03:48 718093 /lib/ld-2.6.1.so
b7f5a000-b7f5b000 rwxp 00019000 03:48 718093 /lib/ld-2.6.1.so
bfef5000-bff09000 rwxp bfef5000 00:00 0 [stack]
bff09000-bff0b000 rw-p bff09000 00:00 0
ffffe000-fffff000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0 [vdso]
Aborted

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But the point is that the output isn't always the same, i also get for example:

(......)
am_out_bridge_plugin.so
b5086000-b5087000 rwxp 00002000 03:48 637681 /usr/lib/vlc/stream_out/libstream_out_bridge_plugin.so
b5087000-b508b000 r-xp 00000000 03:48 637691 /usr/lib/vlc/stream_out/libstream_out_switcher_plugin.so
b508b000-b508c000 rwxp 00003000 03:48 637691 /usr/lib/vlc/stream_out/libstream_out_switcher_plugin.so
b508c000-b508f000 r-xp 00000000 03:48 637688 /usr/lib/vlc/stream_out/libstream_out_mosaic_bridge_plugin.so
b508f000-b5090000 rwxp 00002000 03:48 637688 /usr/lib/vlc/stAborted

By the way, i'm also on Mandriva2008.
Thanks in advance for any help