vlc media player

Michael Havens bmike1 at gmail.com
Fri Dec 27 11:34:55 MST 2013 

well.... because I run a derivative of ubuntu I asked on the OSes support
page and was told to run:
[code]
sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-ati
sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-radeon
[/code]
But the response the computer gave was:
[code]
Unpacking fglrx (from ...fglrx?2%3a9.000-0ubuntu3_i386.deb) ...
/usr/share/ati/fglrx-uninstall.sh:32
/usr/share/ati/fglrx-uninstall.sh:cannot create
/etc/ati/fglrx-uninstall.log:Directory nonexistent.

[Warning] Uninstall: inst_path_default or inst_path_override
does not exist on /etc/ati. This suggests that the AMD driver
is not installed, the AMD driver is only partially installed,
or the current AMD driver installed is an older version than the
one this script was designed for. Both files listed above are
required for determining where installed files are located.
to force unistallation of the driver by guessing where the
unistallation files are located, set the force option
re-run /usr/share/ati/fglrx-uninstall.sh (this is not recommended).

dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/fglrx?2%3a9.000-0ubuntu3_i386.deb (--unpack):
 subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/fglrx?2%3a9.000-0ubuntu3_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned error code (1)
[/code]
I do appologize for any typos in the code.... I had to type it in.
Any suggestions now?

:-)~MIKE~(-:


On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 5:24 PM, Michael Butash <michael at butash.net> wrote:

>  http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Ubuntu_Precise_Installation_Guide
>
> rtfm.  :)
>
> -mb
>
>
>
> On 12/26/2013 05:21 PM, Michael Butash wrote:
>
> sudo apt-get remove fglrx*
>
> How are you installing the driver, making the deb's or forcing the lib
> install?  I'd recommend the packages as that won't be catastrophic with
> kernel updates.  Packages allow for dkms to recompile the module for kernel
> upgrades.
>
> sudo sh ./amd-driver-installer-catalyst-13-12-x86.x86_64.run --buildpkg
> Ubuntu/precise
> sudo dpkg -i fglrx*.deb
>
> Make sure to replace the distribution (precise) with whatever you're on,
> and the filename.
>
> Other than that, look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log for clues, but you're not
> installing the packages clean.
>
> -mb
>
>
> On 12/26/2013 05:10 PM, Michael Havens wrote:
>
>  uh-ohhhhhh
>  I installed 13.12 with the force option and it installed. then the
> machine said it needed a reboot. so I did and now X doesn't work. so this
> is way deeper than I had hoped it would be but it is too late to go back
> now! so I had read that you need to reinstall X after an FGLRX upgrade. I
> need to go to work now but if you could tell me how to do this it would be
> great. After we get done with this I am going to have a bunch of
> instructional files. that is what I do now.... I copy the instructuions
> into a file and put that into a folder entitle 'computer instructions so I
> don't have to bug anyone about my little problems and so I can help someone
> with the same problem.
>
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 4:32 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> figured out the installation (sh <file>) but now it is telling me to
>> uninstall the previous installation of fglrx (which I am doing with apt-get
>> remove). But to remove it it is installing a package called :
>>
>>  The following NEW packages will be installed:
>>   fglrx-amdcccle-updates fglrx-updates
>>
>>  SO should I continue with the installation of 13.12 after the updates
>> are installed?
>>
>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 4:11 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> okay....  is installed but they are up to version 13.12 . Time for an
>>> upgrade. I d/l the new driver butdon't know how to install it. The file is
>>> a .run file . './<file name> isn't working and the release notes don't give
>>> any indication.  So what do I do?
>>>
>>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 4:02 PM, Michael Butash <michael at butash.net>wrote:
>>>
>>>>  mb at host:~$  sudo dpkg -l fglrx
>>>> Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
>>>> |
>>>> Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
>>>> |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
>>>> ||/ Name           Version      Architecture Description
>>>>
>>>> +++-==============-============-============-=================================
>>>> ii  fglrx          2:13.200-0ub amd64        Video driver for the AMD
>>>> graphics
>>>>
>>>> Compare that against the active driver sets from AMD's site.
>>>>
>>>> -mb
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 12/26/2013 03:56 PM, Michael Havens wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hey Mike..... how do I see what the current version of fglrx is? I
>>>> tried locate and I think it is 9 or 10 as there are a coupke of files....
>>>> one is:
>>>> /etc/X11/Xsession.d/10fglrx
>>>> and the other
>>>>  /usr/lib/pxpress/lib/10fglrx
>>>>  or
>>>>  /usr/src/fglrx-9.000
>>>>  and then a bunch of files built off of that directory.
>>>> .... then I just noticed:
>>>>
>>>>  /lib/modules/3.5.0-17-generic/kernel/drivers/char/drm/fglrx.ko
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 1:08 PM, Michael Butash <michael at butash.net>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>  Ok, I think the problem is likely with the format of the video, it
>>>>> doesn't sound like they're being hardware decoded, as I don't even see a
>>>>> blip on the cpu when the gpu is doing the decode.  Basically you don't have
>>>>> enough processing that it's dragging your system down with it.  If VLC,
>>>>> Totem, or whatever all behave the same, it's a system resource issue.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'd make sure you upgrade your drivers from actual AMD/ATI site, as
>>>>> the ones in repo tend to be old, you might just have some rendering
>>>>> challenges.  They've also steadily added codecs over time for what they can
>>>>> decode, so it might be fixed.  Don't install the radeon driver, just
>>>>> upgrade the fglrx proprietary blob driver.
>>>>>
>>>>> The other option is change your recording format to something that
>>>>> doesn't kill your cpu.  You can also transcode or reencode the existing
>>>>> videos.  I'd recommend just using straight h.264 as it's all but standard
>>>>> and supported by most gpu's for decode now.  Plenty of info and apps out
>>>>> there to do this, but not my forte to point you at any one.  I never make
>>>>> videos, I just download straight h.264 or xvid videos that give me no grief.
>>>>>
>>>>> What format *are* these in?  Not just the container (ie. mkv), but the
>>>>> actual codec in use.  VLC will tell you if you look under Tool menu, and
>>>>> Codec Properties when the file is loaded.
>>>>>
>>>>> Reply to all for the list too, might help someone else out here
>>>>> without me having readd them back in disjointed thread fashion.  :)
>>>>>
>>>>> -mb
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 12/26/2013 12:13 PM, Michael Havens wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>  I'm not sure if I need to say this but xbmc videos play with no
>>>>> problem; the problem is with home recorded videos. If I upload the videos
>>>>> to you tube they will play fine. As for the output of: lsmod | egrep
>>>>> 'fgl|rade'
>>>>>
>>>>>       fglrx                4325524  223 <4325524%20%C2%A0223>
>>>>>
>>>>>   I do not seem to have a radeon driver. I did apt-cache search to
>>>>> see I could figure out what to install.... and out of the list that printed
>>>>> up of interest (i think) is:
>>>>>      fglrx-updates - Video driver for the AMD graphics accelerators
>>>>> and
>>>>>      rovclock - utility to control frequency rates of your Radeon card
>>>>>
>>>>>  htop just showed vlc at the top of the list when I started it with
>>>>> cpu usage between 10% and 80%.
>>>>>
>>>>>  I also just tried it with totem (slow video and no sound) and
>>>>> gnome-mplayer (slow video, normal sound which rushes ahead)
>>>>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>>>>
>>>>>  $ apt-cache search radeon
>>>>>  libdrm-radeon1 - Userspace interface to radeon-specific kernel DRM
>>>>> services -- runtime
>>>>> libdrm-radeon1-dbg - Userspace interface to radeon-specific kernel DRM
>>>>> services -- debugging symbols
>>>>> radeontool - utility to control ATI Radeon backlight functions on
>>>>> laptops
>>>>> xserver-xorg-video-ati - X.Org X server -- AMD/ATI display driver
>>>>> wrapper
>>>>> xserver-xorg-video-ati-dbg - X.Org X server -- AMD/ATI display driver
>>>>> wrapper (debugging symbols)
>>>>> xserver-xorg-video-radeon - X.Org X server -- AMD/ATI Radeon display
>>>>> driver
>>>>> xserver-xorg-video-radeon-dbg - X.Org X server -- AMD/ATI Radeon
>>>>> display driver (debugging symbols)
>>>>> xvba-va-driver - XvBA-based backend for VA API (AMD fglrx
>>>>> implementation)
>>>>> fglrx - Video driver for the AMD graphics accelerators
>>>>> fglrx-amdcccle - Catalyst Control Center for the AMD graphics
>>>>> accelerators
>>>>> fglrx-amdcccle-updates - Catalyst Control Center for the AMD graphics
>>>>> accelerators
>>>>> fglrx-dev - Video driver for the AMD graphics accelerators (devel
>>>>> files)
>>>>>  fglrx-updates - Video driver for the AMD graphics accelerators
>>>>> fglrx-updates-dev - Video driver for the AMD graphics accelerators
>>>>> (devel files)
>>>>> mplayer2 - next generation movie player for Unix-like systems
>>>>> rovclock - utility to control frequency rates of your Radeon card
>>>>> atitvout - ATI TV Out Support Program
>>>>> gatos - ATI All-in-Wonder TV capture software
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
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