VLC Pulse Audio 5.1 Patch

[illbashu]

i have everything checked. Do you have any extra repos installed?

[danwood76]

No, the alternative is to install the dependencies themselves.
But there are quite a few.

You could install a nightly build from here:
http://nightlies.videolan.org/
(The ubuntu packages will work on jaunty I'm sure)

[illbashu]

This is my source list

# deb cdrom:[Ubuntu 9.04 _Jaunty Jackalope_ - Release amd64 (20090420.1)]/ jaunty main restricted
# See http://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes for how to upgrade to
# newer versions of the distribution.

deb http://gulus.usherbrooke.ca/ubuntu/ jaunty main restricted
deb-src http://gulus.usherbrooke.ca/ubuntu/ jaunty main restricted

## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the
## distribution.
deb http://gulus.usherbrooke.ca/ubuntu/ jaunty-updates main restricted
deb-src http://gulus.usherbrooke.ca/ubuntu/ jaunty-updates main restricted

## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team. Also, please note that software in universe WILL NOT receive any
## review or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
deb http://gulus.usherbrooke.ca/ubuntu/ jaunty universe
deb-src http://gulus.usherbrooke.ca/ubuntu/ jaunty universe
deb http://gulus.usherbrooke.ca/ubuntu/ jaunty-updates universe
deb-src http://gulus.usherbrooke.ca/ubuntu/ jaunty-updates universe

## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu 
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to 
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in 
## multiverse WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu
## security team.
deb http://gulus.usherbrooke.ca/ubuntu/ jaunty multiverse
deb-src http://gulus.usherbrooke.ca/ubuntu/ jaunty multiverse
deb http://gulus.usherbrooke.ca/ubuntu/ jaunty-updates multiverse
deb-src http://gulus.usherbrooke.ca/ubuntu/ jaunty-updates multiverse

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'backports'
## repository.
## N.B. software from this repository may not have been tested as
## extensively as that contained in the main release, although it includes
## newer versions of some applications which may provide useful features.
## Also, please note that software in backports WILL NOT receive any review
## or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
 deb http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty-backports main restricted universe multiverse
 deb-src http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty-backports main restricted universe multiverse

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from Canonical's
## 'partner' repository.
## This software is not part of Ubuntu, but is offered by Canonical and the
## respective vendors as a service to Ubuntu users.
deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu jaunty partner
deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu jaunty partner

deb http://gulus.usherbrooke.ca/ubuntu/ jaunty-security main restricted
deb-src http://gulus.usherbrooke.ca/ubuntu/ jaunty-security main restricted
deb http://gulus.usherbrooke.ca/ubuntu/ jaunty-security universe
deb-src http://gulus.usherbrooke.ca/ubuntu/ jaunty-security universe
deb http://gulus.usherbrooke.ca/ubuntu/ jaunty-security multiverse
deb-src http://gulus.usherbrooke.ca/ubuntu/ jaunty-security multiverse
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/transmissionbt/ubuntu jaunty main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/transmissionbt/ubuntu jaunty main
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/transmissionbt-beta/ubuntu jaunty main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/transmissionbt-beta/ubuntu jaunty main
deb http://gulus.usherbrooke.ca/ubuntu/ jaunty-proposed restricted main multiverse universe
deb http://gulus.usherbrooke.ca/ubuntu/ jaunty-backports restricted main multiverse universe
deb http://apt.boxee.tv jaunty main

For the nightly build do I install 8.10 repo?

edit....

W: Failed to fetch http://nightlies.videolan.org/build/intrepid-amd64/arch/./Packages  404 Not Found

-_- am i doomed to not get any use out of my system or something?, i guess ill there source code... none of there f*cking folder have anything in them.. The ones that you get linked to if you click on tar >

edit... i finally found one in the trunk folder.. maybe i should of read the thing first -_-

Edit: This is the part i am stuck on in compiling it.

configure: WARNING: Could not find img_resample in libavcodec.
configure: error: in `/home/bash/Desktop/vlc-1.0.0-pre1':
configure: error: swscale (and its fallback module imgresample) support will be missing. Use --disable-swscale to ignore this error. (This basically means that you will be missing any good software scaling module and some video chroma converters.)
See `config.log' for more details.

Edit i figured it out i needed libswscale-dev

[illbashu]

I manged to get get it compiled but now i am getting this error:

bash@bash-desktop:~$ '/usr/local/bin/vlc' 
/usr/local/bin/vlc: error while loading shared libraries: libvlccore.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

i cant even run the regular VLC now it gives the same error. I tried removing it and it still gave that error :/

[danwood76]

Oh dear. This is probably an issue because you now have 2 versions of VLC installed.

The thing to do is remove VLC from your machine and try to recompile.
First remove the one from the repos, and then run 'sudo make uninstall' in the vlc source dir.

When you recompile run the commands I said above, so first bootstrap then recompile configured with --prefix=/usr then make and sudo make install.

You should then be able to run vlc by just typing vlc into the terminal.

[illbashu]

its working know that i ran

 echo export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=\${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}:/usr/local/lib >>~/.bash_profile

but i cant run 5.1 as there is no option for it now and .mkv files are really choppy(they are so choppy that its pretty much unwatchable.

The guy on linux forums helped me out

http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/ubu...tml#post694300

[danwood76]

The choppyness is probably caused by Ubuntus new pulseaudio.
I have made a patch that pretty much fixes this by enabling a newer pulse output mode which will be in VLC git soon.

The 5.1 is automatic in pulse output (as long as you have that enabled) as pulse takes care of everything, you may need to adjust your pulse config to allow the 5.1 surround also.

[illbashu]

the audio isn't choppy the video is.

btw how do i set it to 5.1 it is detecting my speakers as Mono :/

Where is the pulse config file?

[danwood76]

The file is:
/etc/pulse/daemon.conf

change the line:

; default-sample-channels = 2

to:

default-sample-channels = 6

You should then have 5.1, I dont use analogue I have a strange alsa setup with it encoding to dolby digital and outputting through spdif.

The mkv shouldnt stutter, if it does it could be related to your graphics drivers or some ofther video reason.
Does the video play smoothly in totem (Movie Player)?

[illbashu]

The file is:
/etc/pulse/daemon.conf

change the line:

; default-sample-channels = 2

to:

default-sample-channels = 6

You should then have 5.1, I dont use analogue I have a strange alsa setup with it encoding to dolby digital and outputting through spdif.

The mkv shouldnt stutter, if it does it could be related to your graphics drivers or some ofther video reason.
Does the video play smoothly in totem (Movie Player)?

the regular VLC used to run great... and no it doesn't lag in totem.