On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 9:17 PM, Ryan Schmidt <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Oct 3, 2010, at 12:10, Jasper Frumau wrote: > > > On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 8:25 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > > > >> Have you tried double-clicking VLC in the /Applications/MacPorts folder? > That would be the usual way to start VLC on Mac OS X. > > > > I did just now - thanks for that - and then I got these errors: > http://pastebin.com/u32GxWWz Any ideas what is going on here? > > No, sorry. VLC is a large program that is difficult to compile. This is why > VLC in MacPorts is stuck at version 1.0.6 instead of being updated to > version 1.1.3: > > http://trac.macports.org/ticket/25431 > > And apparently even our 1.0.6 has problems, as you're discovering. Part of > the problem is that VLC depends on libraries like ffmpeg and x264 which have > not yet released stable versions and so are in a constant state of change; > probably VLC 1.0.6 worked with the versions of ffmpeg and x264 we had in > MacPorts at the time VLC 1.0.6 was released, but not with the newer versions > of those libraries we now have in MacPorts. The errors you're seeing don't > appear to be related to those libraries, but I just wanted to illustrate the > types of problems we've had with the VLC port in the past. > > You may be better off downloading the precompiled VLC from the VLC project > itself: > > http://www.videolan.org/ > > Used that before and could not open the DVD. Downloaded VLC 1.2.2.dmg, tried again. It failed again. Added error log here: http://pastebin.com/6T7hbd1x . Will ask for help at VLC forum. Thanks
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