What distro do you have (cat /etc/issue;uname -a) and which Vlc version? It may no even be Vlc, Vlc relies on a bunch of libraries. Installing those libraries from source looks to me like a great way to get your system hosed. YMMV... ET Michael Havens writes: > Well when I run home videos the video portion of the film can't keep up > with the audio. Likely the cpu is to blame but on another discussion board > one guys solution was to run 1.1.10 . I am just grasping at straws here! > > :-)~MIKE~(-: > > On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 12:02 PM, wrote: > >> Mike, BLFS will give you a laundry list of all you need to have installed >> to get VLC compiled. >> I certainly admire and encourage your ambition, but this may be a little >> bit above your head (it is almost above mine). >> Why do you want to compile VLC anyway? >> What's wrong with your distro's package? >> ET >> >> Michael Havens writes: >> >>> okay... it was late a late night when I wrote that last message but I am >>> up >>> now fresh (sorta). >>> WHen I run ./configure the last line it spits out is: >>> configure: error: Couldn't find DBus >= 1.0.0, install libdbus-dev ? >>> Am I to assume that I need to compile libdbus-dev? >>> :-)~MIKE~(-: >>> On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 11:43 AM, Michael Havens >>> wrote: >>> >>>> I did try to install it with the given directions. >>>> :-)~MIKE~(-: >>>> On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 9:17 AM, wrote: >>>> >>>>> Cow, deer, moose, it's all meat. >>>>> Extrapolate and interpolate! ;-) >>>>> ET >>>>> Michael Havens writes: >>>>> >>>>>> well... those instructions are for VLC version 2.1.5. >>>>>> :-)~MIKE~(-: >>>>>> On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 6:19 AM, wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> Enjoy: >>>>>>> http://linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/stable/multimedia/vlc.html >>>>>>> ET >>>>>>> Michael Havens writes: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Well, someone told me that they run vlc 1.1.10 and that everything >>>>>>>> runs >>>>>>>> perfectly where they had later versions that did not run as well. As >>>>>>>> such >>>>>>>> I >>>>>>>> am trying to compile vlc for my computer. >>>>>>>> Here is what I did: >>>>>>>> 424 wget ' >>>>>>>> http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/1.1.9/vlc-1. >>>>>>>> 1.9.tar.bz2' >>>>>>>> --edit-- >>>>>>>> 427 tar -xjf vlc-1.1.10.tar.bz2 >>>>>>>> 428 ls >>>>>>>> 429 cd vlc-1.1.10/ >>>>>>>> --edit-- >>>>>>>> 433 ./configure >>>>>>>> configure: error: Couldn't find DBus >= 1.0.0, install libdbus-dev ? >>>>>>>> 435 sudo apt-get install libdbus-dev >>>>>>>> Reading package lists... Done >>>>>>>> Building dependency tree >>>>>>>> Reading state information... Done >>>>>>>> E: Unable to locate package libdbus-dev >>>>>>>> (after searching for how to install the program found that installing >>>>>>>> libhal-dev installs libdbus-dev) >>>>>>>> 436 sudo apt-get install libhal-dev >>>>>>>> Reading package lists... Done >>>>>>>> Building dependency tree >>>>>>>> Reading state information... Done >>>>>>>> E: Unable to locate package libhal-dev >>>>>>>> 437 sudo dpkg -i libdbus-dev >>>>>>>> dpkg: error processing archive libdbus-dev (--install): >>>>>>>> cannot access archive: No such file or directory >>>>>>>> Errors were encountered while processing: >>>>>>>> libdbus-dev >>>>>>>> --edit-- >>>>>>>> 439 sudo dpkg --install libhal-dev >>>>>>>> dpkg: error processing archive libhal-dev (--install): >>>>>>>> cannot access archive: No such file or directory >>>>>>>> Errors were encountered while processing: >>>>>>>> libhal-dev >>>>>>>> 440 history >>>>>>>> :-)~MIKE~(-: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> --------------------------------------------------- >>>>>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>>>>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>>>>>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>>>>>> >>>>>> --------------------------------------------------- >>>>>> >>>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>>>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss