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 >