vlc will not start

[ulfr]

   the vlc3 in tinycore 10 will not load in tinycore 11
   because a kernel specific dependency could not be found 

   ulfr 

[Rich]

Hi ulfr
I'd like to demonstrate the value of providing exact error messages reported by the operating system.

In your original post, you reported:

...    vlc will not start with errors   
 
    failed to intialise XRander
    and others ...

Which suggested the problem was you needed to be running Xorg.

6 posts later, you provided the actual error messages produced:

here are the errors
the same if xorg is loaded or not 

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[08539290] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface.
 ----- Snip -----

Illegal instruction

This showed the actual problem was your processor did not support some instruction that the program was trying to execute.

[Rich]

Hi Juanito
Except for  original-modules-KERNEL , I don't see any  .dep  files that contain a specific kernel version in the TC10 or TC11 repos.

[Juanito]

thanks - I see the 10.x vlc3 depends on libavdevice3, whereas the 11.x vlc3 depends on libavdevice4, so the two are not interchangeable.

[ulfr]

  yes

  sorry rich
 
  i will make sure i provide the actual error output in the future
  didn't mean to waste your time

  and thanks for all the help
  much appreciated

  ulfr

 

[ulfr]

     hi guys

     just wanted to update this thread 

     my goal is to build a basic system with tinycore 11
     the only apps that need to be updated are firefox and vlc
     the rest are various utility programs that i have never had any problems with
     since firefox will play you tube with sound
     i am half the way there
     i note that vlc 3 in tinycore 10 will work with sound
     and that dcore stretch will download a working vlc 3 from debian and make it into an sce
     ( i have not tried setting up sound in dcore yet but will  )
     so i have hope that i will be able to bundle binaries together to make a working vlc for tinycore 11
     anyway that is what i am working on now 
     any words of wisdom to speed me on my quest will be appreciated
     
     thanks for making this great system and for all the help

    ulfr
   
 


 

[ulfr]

        success

        both firefox (plays youtube) and vlc work with sound in dcore stretch

         ulfr

[ulfr]

     hi rich and juanito

     just to update things 

     i have been trying to find a vlc that will work in tinycore 11
     but so far no luck

     i dont have the ability to compile so complex a program
     so i am just looking for binaries

     most have run but stopped with missing dependencies 
     i then slowly added them
     until eventually with one the glibc was too old

     anyway will keep trying

     thanks for making such a great system 
     
     ulfr

[ulfr]

     at the risk of boring everyone to death
     i just put tinycore 11 on another computer
     and vlc3 works fine on this one
     of course verifying what you guys said about it being the chip

     well i can use tinycore 11 on this computer

     but will still look to see what vlc3 binaries i can find that will run on the other computer
     its been a lot of fun   

     ulfr

[grenchyoll]

Hello TinyCore Team

maybe Im in the same waters here ,

trying to run VLC3 on my old computer (   pentium M  , according to VLC  , Pentium is supported from PRO on  )
 
after installed pavucontrol as per instructions on another post ,
I installed VLC3 , reboot

VLC blinks a screen , but never open

could it be error due to unsupported instructions

how do I see that ? how to run command line to get this report ?

regards

G.O

[grenchyoll]

ohh more newbe impossible ,   

on terminal , type VLC enter ....

the report said ... ILLEGAL INSTRUCTION  .... nouaaaaa 

for the records , DELL latitude Pentium M

[Rich]

Hi grenchyoll
It looks like the  Illegal instruction  might be coming from  qt.

[Juanito]

qt was compiled with "-march=i486 -mtune=i686", but perhaps those flags were not used everywhere by the build routines?

[grenchyoll]

Hello Rich , Juanito thanks for your replies , very kind .

Ive been playing HD videos/audio from  youtube on Firefox 87 , with command line   
" apulse Firefox "

so its weird VLC cant even start due to "instructions"  , isnt it  ?!?  .

So I tried my last resort , the OldTimer  " mplayer-cli "  but it cant start as well . After the command line "mplayer" I read :

"error while loading shared libraries : libXss.so.1 : cannot open shared object file ,
no such file or directory "

I look at APP and search for this tcz on repo ,  and I found it  , but it says
0 bits to download , so it looks its installed

any thoughts are welcome !!!

GO
 

[Juanito]

firefox does not depend on qt-5.x, but vlc does depend on qt-5.x, so it is not particularly surprising that one works and the other does not work.

You can check if the libXss extension is loaded with:

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$ tce-status -i | grep libXss