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Hi all

I have had several attempts to build this application and have had partial success.

I had to use the /opt directory as upon creating a PET file not all the configuration directories/files.

Initially tried to build the application using

/usr

and also tried the default setting

/usr/local

Which resulted me in trying the /opt directory instead.

Here's a demonstration using the "wavy" filter on a video file.

https://jumpshare.com/s/iBj7AhYzIQ5sEdogxFkw

Video does playback, but for some reason I do not get audio. Have tried changing the hardware device with no luck.

Any suggestions?

@Jasper :-

Just an observation, like. You said:-

...Have tried changing the hardware device with no luck...

Are you talking about Menu -> Audio -> Audio Device? This seems to be a random thing, and hardware-dependent; with some machines, it seems to nearly always default to

Discard all samples

.....in which case you HAVE to manually select your card/device every single time. I've had machines where this is the case; I've had others where this never happens. And some where it occurs completely at random.....with no "rhyme or reason" to it (that I can see).

It may not be your fault..! VLC is a brilliant bit of kit, but it can be quite temperemental on some computers.....

Mike.

@Jasper

I think @OscarTalks is our resident VLC expert and has successfully compiled it in the past. Hopefully he can assist you.

wizard

I have built various versions of VLC for several Pups in the past, but not sure how much help I can be here. I have always been able to build with --prefix=/usr though you may sometimes also have to add --libdir=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu for Ubuntu/Debian or --libdir=/usr/lib64 for Slackware depending on the structure of the Puppy. Not sure exactly what you (Jasper) mean by the problem with config files. Anything that goes in the .pet package would usually go under /etc (--sysconfdir=/etc) in order to be system-wide, but anything else will be created by the program when it runs (under /root or other HOME directory if running as other user) so such config files will not be in the package directory tree.
Sorry but I have no experience of the "wavy" filter, but if I discover anything I will let you know.

I have had another look at this as I saw an updated build was provided in the past few days.

It compiles okay but I only seem to be able to invoke it using terminal and typing clvc <filename>.

I did strip all the library files before packaging it up into a PET file.......... unsure as if this may have caused the error messages.

The audio seems to work now via CLVC

still not working via the gui

Is there a vlc3 .pet ?

Portable available here:
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