Vlc
VLC is a video and audio player for Linux that plays video files, DVDs with and without menues and CDs.
Get it
To install vlc, find out your distribution and proceed accordingly.
SUSE Linux 12.2 till 13.2
- yast2 -> Software -> Software Repositories -> Add -> Community Repositories -> Packman Repository
- open a console, issue
yast -i vlc
SUSE Linux 12.1
- if you want to play dvds, install libdvdcss2 by opening a console and entering
yast -i libdvdcss2
- yast2 -> Software -> Software Repositories -> Add -> Community Repositories -> Packman Repositories
- open a console, issue
yast -i vlc
SUSE Linux 11.4
- if you want to play dvds, install libdvdread by opening a console and entering
yast -i libdvdread
- yast2 -> Software -> Software Repositories -> Add -> Community Repositories -> Packman Repositories
- open a console, issue
yast -i vlc
Compile from source
This shows how to compile vlc from source using version 1.1.12 and SUSE 11.4 as an example.
- install some dependencies, in this case for SUSE Linux 11.4:
# yast -i lua-devel libmad-devel liba52-devel fribidi-devel
- download the code
# wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/vlc/1.1.12/vlc-1.1.12.tar.xz
- extract it
# xz -d vlc-1.1.12.tar.xz # tar xvf vlc-1.1.12.tar
- compile it
# cd vlc-1.1.12/ # ./configure --disable-postproc && make -j8 && make install
Allow root to run it
See Gdb#Allow_starting_vlc_as_root.
TroubleShooting
codec missing
Error message:
No suitable decoder module: VLC does not support the audio or video format "h264". Unfortunately there is no way for you to fix this. No suitable decoder module: VLC does not support the audio or video format "mp4a". Unfortunately there is no way for you to fix this.
- Solution 1
- SUSE: I added packman as repository, then installed vlc-codecs and accepted the vendor change
- Solution 2
- I installed and used xine.
Can not open DVD
Symptom
If you get a message like
DVDRead could not open the disc "/dev/dvd".
Solution 1
Do the following as root
chmod 777 /dev/dvd /dev/sr0
Solution 2
Add the user you want to play DVDs with to the group cdrom (yes, for /dev/dvd). To do this, edit /etc/group. The group name may differ, to find out the correct one do a
ll /dev/dvd
or
ll /dev/sr0
No css library available
Symptom
When trying to start the DVD, on console you see an error message
No css library available.
Solution
In this case, if it is legal in your country, compile libdvdcss from http://www.videolan.org/developers/libdvdcss.html.
Sound problems
If you sound suddenly stops for SUSE Linux 11.4, here is a vlc-specific trick: Uninstall vlc, go to www.videolan.org and install vlc with the 1-click-installation.
Otherwise see troubleshooting sound.
