Thank you so very, very much for writing this blog and continually adding so much great information.

I bought an Aspire one last week with the linux OS and I've followed every single entry you've written - I have all my latest software versions and a nicely customized desktop that I adore.

I couldn't have done it without your blog.

Hi,

I tried it but get this error message at the end
Error: Missing Dependency: libpulse.so.0(PULSE_0) is needed by package vlc
Error: Missing Dependency: libdc1394.so.22 is needed by package ffmpeg-libs
Error: Missing Dependency: libdvdnav.so.4 is needed by package vlc-core

any ideas?

macles,

I'm such a spaz when it comes to Linux. I ran:
dca add 12 "file='/usr/share/applications/livna-vlc.desktop'"
twice during the install.

dca add 12 "file='/usr/share/applications/livna-vlc.desktop'"


Now I have 2 VLC icons in my 'Fun' area and they're both at the end of the list. I can't move them and the lead location is blank, not even an alt name. I did remove media master and mplayer.

Any thoughts? Thanks for all you do.

Thank you very much, it worked fine for me.
I can now play the last divx without problems (i was missing some subtitles in mkv files).
720p are still lagy though, i can't find a player that runs them smoothly...
Anyway thanks again very nice site, very usefull

mm, i don't know yet. I think it is better to uninstall the other players before you install a new one. I have experienced it myself in linux that the codecs and stuff get mixed up from the players if you install a new one with another still installed.

VLC is ok, but I like mplayer better. One small tip for 720p, you can enable in mplayer an option to use 2 threads instead of 1 for h264 decoding.

I have a 720 p movie playing very well with vlc

having placed the icon in my menu as per the instructions, i now get the error:

Unable to open '%U'

each time i open vlc player.

any idea how to fix this?

thanks!

I already had VLC player 0.9.2 installed, located the required dependencies libx264.so.65 and libavcodec.so.52, installed them, and then installed vlc 0.9.6 player for fedora 8 after doing an rpm search.

I have followed all yr instructions via copy&paste and all looked right. unfortunately I can't find the programme anywhere, either in xfce-menue nor in the directory. I have installed realplayer. could that have caused the problem?

Thanks for all you clever suggestions. it helped me to slowly get used to linux and enjoy may AAO

cheers
Christian

My problem is similar to Christian F.
The only difference is I don't have Realplayer.
The previous mplayer is not on the Multimedia anymore.
But no VLC Player anywhere.
Help...

Trying til install VLC via tha guide. It runs trough almost every thing.

"Running rpm_check_debug
ERROR with rpm_check_debug vs depsolve:
Package mplayer needs libx264.so.56, this is not available.
Package mencoder needs libx264.so.56, this is not available.
Complete!"

I can´t find vlc anywhere and trying to make application icon returns errormessage
Anyone?

I've upgraded from VLC version 0.8.7 successfully following your instructions above. I also removed mplayer.

But I've now found that some items don't play with version 0.9. The problems I have are with DVD video (.VOB files in a VIDEO_TS folder from a ripped DVD disk) and non-DRM high quality .WMA audio files.

I removed version 0.9 and reinstalled 0.8.7 to make sure that I hadn't done anything silly and they play ok in that version.

Any ideas? Or do I need to stick with the old version.

Similar problems to Dan Leigh...installation went fine, but now if I open the VIDEO_TS folder that is in an external HDD, VLC takes a long time to respond, and then plays only 2 or 3 seconds of each VOB. I have of course VLC on a XP machine and those files play perfectly (that is, VLC sees them as a single DVD with all the menus and options, and plays the movie perfectly). Is there something I need to change in the VLC setting? Alternatively, where do I find the 0.8.7 version of it?

Thanks once again macles !!

Any thoughts on a better way for streaming radio song titles to update other than by pressing the pause button every time arrgghh !!

I take it this is a vlc bug ? (precious little information to be had from scroogling the net) ?

Ciao

I justed intalled 0.8.7 and all seems good. I tried to play movie trailers at Apple.com but they would not play. But if I went to the HD trailers and right click>open_in_another_window the 480P trailers looked amazing.

Thanks Macles

Two problems: playback is not smooth (the same applies to mplayer: cpu is at about 35% but there is some skipping for unknown reasons). Anyone else experiencing the same problem (I have a A110L)?
Second: dialogs are too tall! I'm using the stock xfce, is there a way to access the lower part of dialogs? Something like enabling a virtual desktop below the current one and have to windows "continue" there?

Davide.

Thanks again.
Another Great tutorial.I did it and works!!!
I want to ask something. Somebody knows some program to have a virtual CD in linpus?

hi
thanks for all ur help. but i am also not able to see the vlc icon on the fun menu and my media master icon is also gone. tried following all the steps twice but no use. only have noticed a star like icon in the fun menu which does not do anything and dissappears on the first reboot.
your help will be apreciated.
thanks

hey Im new at linux. finally i made the instalation but 3 icons appear on the fun box how can i delete the other 2 without doing all the process

i have 9 VLC Icons,have removed and installed several times but still.Tried the mouspad command but what to do ??? i am a novis ,thank u so very much for this Blog
Christer

Hi Macles,

Firstly, thank you for posting this. Every forum on VLC for the Aspire One I've visited points back to your blog. I'm a one day old Linux user and having been pampered on Mac OSX for the last decade, command line prompt entries takes a bit of getting used to so please bear with me.

I've performed the first 3 statements below:
sudo rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm
sudo rpm -Uvh http://rpms.kwizart.net/kwizart-release-8.rpm
sudo yum install --enablerepo=kwizart-testing vlc vlc-core mozilla-vlc

but at the end of the yum install command, I get the following error. I believe an anonymous entry above also had the same problem.

Error: Missing Dependency: libpulse.so.0(PULSE_0) is needed by package vlc
Error: Missing Dependency: libdc1394.so.22 is needed by package ffmpeg-libs
Error: Missing Dependency: libdvdnav.so.4 is needed by package vlc-core

I'm assuming this means the 3 lib* files can't be located and therefore my installation has failed. What steps can I take to acquire these files?

Also, just to help me learn linux a bit better, what is the default directory where the repositories are stored when I run the sudo rpm statements?

Thanks for your help!

Mia Caitlin

I'm having the same problem as Mia Caitlin.
yum install vlc
Then all the good shit happens and I think I'm finally getting VLC!
Then this happens:
Error: Missing Dependency: libpulse.so.0(PULSE_0) is needed by package vlc
Error: Missing Dependency: libdc1394.so.22 is needed by package ffmpeg-libs
Error: Missing Dependency: libdvdnav.so.4 is needed by package vlc-core

Anybody any help?
Darren in glorious Dublin.

What is the dca command? My Acer doesn't seem to have it:

> dca add 12 "file='/usr/share/applications/livna-vlc.desktop'"
bash: dca: command not found


Also, "find / |grep dca" doesn't find it.

After removing the old media master program, there is an empty space on the desktop where the icon used to be. I'm able to move the added VLC icon around to switch places with the remaining icons in that section, but I can't move anything into the void left by the old program. Now there's an empty space on the desktop that I can't fill.

Any suggestions?

I can't play divx files. I get a message about missing codecs. What settings should I do in vlc's menu??

This was perfect

Thankyou VERY much

:)

Ahh.. I've figured it out. For those of you with zero linux experience like me, the solution is in Macles other post entitled "Updated Repositories". In my limited understanding (and forgive me if my terminology is incorrect) the Missing Dependency errors were caused by some repositories being assigned a new access key.

By entering:
sudo yum install fedora-release
this updated my version of the key and I could therefore resolve the missing dependencies.

In short, from the beginning, I entered the following 4 statements:
sudo rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm
sudo rpm -Uvh http://rpms.kwizart.net/kwizart-release-8.rpm
sudo yum install fedora-release
sudo yum install --enablerepo=kwizart-testing vlc vlc-core mozilla-vlc

and now I have VLC! Thanks again Macles!

Mia

Edit the file below and change the number in front of the vlc line to 0 to get the vlc icon in the first position. If you have multiple icons delete the duplicate vlc entries.

mousepad $HOME/.config/xfce4/desktop/group-app.xml

Sorry but where are the VLC entries and the VLC line.Thank u

Christer

I want to thank you for writing this blog, I want to have a simplified linux OS on my netbook, but with more capabilities than LLL, and with your instructions i have realised that goal and the netbook have become a powerful, fun and friendly machine.
THANKS THANKS THANKS.

Hi.

I have installed this program. But I cant play Xvid videos. How can solve this problem. Thanks

Hi,

I have a weird issue with sound. Everything installed fine, but everything I play through vlc sounds really, really distorted, and "crackly" I can't hear it properly at all. Anyone else having this problem? Media player works so i know the speakers are ok. Any help appreciated!

Yes I have the same problem with the sound,removed VLC installed again and got better but not good.Christer

Anonymous said...

mousepad $HOME/.config/xfce4/desktop/group-app.xml

If you run that in terminal and clock Ctrl+F to open find... search vlc and it's the 1st one it finds. On that line change source from 5 in my case to 0

:)

Your post made my day... I can finally view downloaded videos! Thanks!

I've updated the fedora key and I still get:

Error: Missing Dependency: libpulse.so.0(PULSE_0) is needed by package vlc

Error: Missing Dependency: libdc1394.so.22 is needed by package ffmpeg-libs

Error: Missing Dependency: libdvdnav.so.4 is needed by package vlc-core


I can't get mplayer to play the extra codecs I want and when I just installed VLC I got the same above errors. Any clues? Anyone?

Thanks.

hello...

How to put a VLC icon in the FUN interface? I followed the instructions above...... the media player in the FUN interface was deleted.....

hi i suddenly cant play my avi. movies on vlc. the programm is saying something about the decoder....and is saying that i cant do anything about it *lol*.

Thanks ton man.....
i had spent 2 days on installation.....bfor i read ur forum....
n it did miracle for me.....

all those those ppl...who are finding errors.....
my suggestion is :
I had same issues,
what i did was, i installed/updated the kernel....and followed the instruction above, and it worked.
hence ppl try updating the kernel, it took me whole night(with decent internet speed) to do the same.

Thanks again
saurabh

I am struggling as a new user of linux. I have tried repeatedly to install vlc, having followed the macles thread, but I get a long string of error messages, herwith:
Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Missing Dependency: libavformat.so.52 is needed by package vlc-core
Error: Missing Dependency: libavcodec.so.51 is needed by package vlc-core
Error: Missing Dependency: libxosd.so.2 is needed by package vlc
Error: Missing Dependency: libdvdnav.so.4 is needed by package vlc-core
Error: Missing Dependency: libgroupsock.so.0 is needed by package vlc-core
Error: Missing Dependency: libfluidsynth.so.1 is needed by package vlc
Error: Missing Dependency: libtwolame.so.0 is needed by package vlc-core
Error: Missing Dependency: libmatroska.so.0 is needed by package vlc-core
Error: Missing Dependency: dejavu-fonts is needed by package vlc
Error: Missing Dependency: libpostproc.so.51 is needed by package vlc-core
Error: Missing Dependency: libfaad.so.0 is needed by package vlc-core
Error: Missing Dependency: libmpeg2.so.0 is needed by package vlc-core
Error: Missing Dependency: libdca.so.0 is needed by package vlc-core
Error: Missing Dependency: libx264.so.60 is needed by package vlc-core
Error: Missing Dependency: libcddb.so.2 is needed by package vlc-core
Error: Missing Dependency: libzvbi.so.0 is needed by package vlc-core
Error: Missing Dependency: libQtGui.so.4 is needed by package vlc
Error: Missing Dependency: libid3tag.so.0 is needed by package vlc-core
Error: Missing Dependency: libtar.so.1 is needed by package vlc
Error: Missing Dependency: libebml.so.0 is needed by package vlc-core
Error: Missing Dependency: libavutil.so.49 is needed by package vlc-core
Error: Missing Dependency: libupnp.so.3 is needed by package vlc-core
Error: Missing Dependency: libpulse.so.0(PULSE_0) is needed by package vlc
Error: Missing Dependency: libdvdread.so.3 is needed by package vlc-core
Error: Missing Dependency: libUsageEnvironment.so.0 is needed by package vlc-core
Error: Missing Dependency: libcxcore.so.1 is needed by package vlc
Error: Missing Dependency: libswscale.so.0 is needed by package vlc-core
Error: Missing Dependency: libportaudio.so.2 is needed by package vlc-core
Error: Missing Dependency: libdvbpsi.so.5 is needed by package vlc-core
Error: Missing Dependency: libml.so.1 is needed by package vlc
Error: Missing Dependency: libcv.so.1 is needed by package vlc
Error: Missing Dependency: libixml.so.2 is needed by package vlc-core
Error: Missing Dependency: libhighgui.so.1 is needed by package vlc
Error: Missing Dependency: libliveMedia.so.0 is needed by package vlc-core
Error: Missing Dependency: libBasicUsageEnvironment.so.0 is needed by package vlc-core
Error: Missing Dependency: libQtCore.so.4 is needed by package vlc
Error: Missing Dependency: libcvaux.so.1 is needed by package vlc
Error: Missing Dependency: libpulse.so.0 is needed by package vlc
Error: Missing Dependency: liba52.so.0 is needed by package vlc-core
Error: Missing Dependency: libmodplug.so.0 is needed by package vlc-core

HELP !!

am I missing a thread that will solve this ?

moonshine

Great tutorial, but in firefox i can't see the video controls. Anyone has this issue ?

Thankyou very much!

Hello there... this blog is really helpful..I just wanna ask about the sound qualty of vlc...kinda not good...Can we solve this problem? Thanks.

to remove second vlc icon from menu, use command:
dca remove 12 "file='/usr/share/applications/livna-vlc.desktop'"

Thank you so much! It works perfectly on my AAO1.

thanks m8!!! finally worked aftrer reading several posts...
thx again...

Many Thanks. I can watch Spongebob the Movie now !

I got this message after the thrid line installing. I tried to say y, but it kept coming up, so I said n, and now the rest won't go now. here is everything after the 36 installs.

warning: rpmts_HdrFromFdno: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 6df2196f
Importing GPG key 0x6DF2196F "Fedora (8 and 9) fedora@fedoraproject.org from /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-8-and-9
Is this ok [y/N]: y
warning: rpmts_HdrFromFdno: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 49c8885a
Importing GPG key 0x49C8885A "RPM Fusion repository (Fedora - free) rpmfusion-buildsys@lists.rpmfusion.org" from /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmfusion-free-fedora
Is this ok [y/N]: n


Not installing key
[user@localhost ~]$ sudo ln -fs /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libvlcplugin.so /opt/firefox/plugins
ln: creating symbolic link `/opt/firefox/plugins': No such file or directory
[user@localhost ~]$ sudo ln -fs /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libvlcplugin.so /opt/firefox/plugins
ln: creating symbolic link `/opt/firefox/plugins': No such file or directory
[user@localhost ~]$ sudo sed s/%U// -i /usr/share/applications/livna-vlc.desktop
sed: can't read /usr/share/applications/livna-vlc.desktop: No such file or directory
[user@localhost ~]$

can you help me?

Are the 2 lines that make the icon display, actually only one line of instruction?

Thx Macles,

After correcting my typo's ;-)) it worked like a charm

made my day

Bit late but:
All the best for 2009

Before I try this I need to know how I type the backslash character I get a < with the relevant key press. Is my keyboard broken? this key with Alt Gr is the only way I can print the pipe character | but whenever I use it I get an error.

How would one go about reversing all this. Uninstall and remove firefox plugins. Also the removal of icons.
I had tried but was given an error only when installing the icons. "no such directory".
I now have one star of david looking icon and a blank spot. When i click on the blank spot the entire desktop is cleared and I can no longer open any directories.

Please post a way to reverse.
Thanx for this and all other posts on this site.

Had some troubles but it worked out in the end - Thanks a bunch for helping out us newbs!

I've installed this update and plays the video of newer file formats but I have lost the sound completely for all videos and audio files played through VLc. Sound is working fine through other applications, including sound files played in other applications. I can see nothing in VLC preferences which will fix this (and have tried most of them). Any ideas? Thanks, MATT.

macles,

New to Linux with Aspire One 150. I wanted to persist with Linux & not have to install XP. I tried to download BBC iPlayer programs through 'get_iplayer' but was having great difficulty with mplayer (no audio codecs). I installed VLC as per this site & had it up & running in no time. BBC programs are now playing without any problem.

Great site, thanks,

Chris

to remove second vlc icon from menu, use command:
dca remove 12 "file='/usr/share/applications/livna-vlc.desktop'"

Thank u,deleted 8 extra VLC Icons.Now iam happy
Christer

Many thanks for the VLC instructions. The analogue audio out of the Acer isn't great, so I borrowed a USB audio (S/PDIF) interface. Linpus Lite recognizes that I've plugged in something because afterwards "dmesg" output ends with:

usbcore: registered new interface driver hiddev
input: KC Technology, Inc. KC USB Audio Device as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1/2-1:1.3/input/input8
input: USB HID v1.00 Device [KC Technology, Inc. KC USB Audio Device] on usb-0000:00:1d.0-1
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver

However, the USB audio interface can't be seen (for example "aplay -l" just lists the built-in Intel audio interface). On a colleague's Asus eePC, the "snd-usb-audio" module is loaded at the end, but the Acer doesn't seem to have this module. Any ideas? Is anyone else interested in getting better-quality audio out of the Acer?

Hi,

Great blog, thanks. I've followed all your instructions for installing vlc however I keep getting the following errors:
Error: Missing Dependency: libgnutls.so.13(GNUTLS_1_3) is needed by package libpurple
Error: Missing Dependency: libedataserver-1.2.so.9 is needed by package ame
Error: Missing Dependency: libgnutls.so.13 is needed by package ame
Error: Missing Dependency: libgnutls.so.13 is needed by package libpurple
Error: notification-daemon-xfce conflicts with notify-daemon
Error: Missing Dependency: libedataserver-1.2.so.9 is needed by package acerim
Error: Missing Dependency: libpython2.5.so.1.0 is needed by package pdvdlinux
Error: Missing Dependency: libgnutls.so.13 is needed by package acerim
Error: Missing Dependency: phonon = 4.2.0-2.fc8 is needed by package phonon-backend-gst
Error: Missing Dependency: libpython2.5.so.1.0 is needed by package pcmlinux

I have installed the missing dependencies however I still keep getting this error. Any help would be much appreciated.

Many thanks

Hi...

First of all, I would like yo thank you for this wonderful blog. I wasn't able to install vlc 9 on my AAO, till I read it. But the problem now, is that I can't watch movies because apparently I don't have the proper codecs. I can listen to mp3 files and even internet radio.

How can I load the codecs?

Woof! More importantly, I'm experiencing severe audio "crackles" while playing both audio and video files. I thought my headphones were broken, but now I'm just glad that I COULDN'T get rid of Media Master, because even though it can't play lots of stuff, at least it doesn't drive me deaf with sudden crackling audio spikes.

WHAAAT?

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Many thanks yet again for clear instructions and a succesful install.
Although I did have a couple of problems the solutions were available elsewhere on the site - very impressed. Many many thanks.

Nick

Thank you so much. I haven't encountered any problems. It works like a charm.

I'm having sound problems too with vlc 0.9. It's really crackly and distorted.
Anybody any ideas why this could be. Sound is ok with other applications.

Hi,

Your instructions worked quite fine for me.

Thanks a lot.

This works a treat , cheers!
I've got a question that hopefully someone can answer , I have a sd card with some iso's on but I can't get vlc to play them , any idea?

Tried to get the VLC but when I try the line
sudo yum install --enablerepo=kwizart-testing vlc vlc-core mozilla-vlc

I get that the repository is not found. Can that be correct?

Thanks!
Erick Pessôa

Hi,

I can't seem to get VLC working - how do I completely uninstall it to have another attempt.

Video's just hang - particulary VOB files

hi i have installed vlc 0.8.7 finally got rid of %U error but it will only play sound not video in any format please help i have unistalled it with package manager and reinstalled but it says livna-vlc 0.0.8.7 is installed nothing to do in terminal

mike

Installed 0.9.5 (using the libplus dependency fix). Previously I installed skype, otherwise stock aa0. It plays the video okay, but no sound. Media master plays mp3's. The game plays sounds, but vls is silent. Also, my browser is silent. I have windows experience and this sounds like a broken driver. I see no other similar problems??

SOlved the problem. I ran alsamixer somehow my pcm was set to 0. Master 100. (alt f2 "alsamixer") Moved the pcm up and sound. I knew ? it was easy.

Installed VLC but now the audio icon on the taskbar is showing muted. The Fn F8 hotkey does not toggle the muting and the taskbar icon remains showing muted. However, the sound works from videos run within VLC and mp3 tracks but the sound volume can only be changed within the program, not the hotkeys. Any way I can get the use back for these hotkeys?

Thanks, macles*.

The VLC install worked fine once the dependency issues were sorted.

Hi, thank you for your step by step,VLC works fine for me but I have a problem now with the network manager. It happened after I removed MediaMaster and Mplayer. After a reboot, I cannot open the Network center or go online at all. If I run nm-applet, I get errors with the "$Gnome_Keyring socket: /tmp/keyring-Ap8rt/socket: permission denied" & "couldn't communicate with gnome keyring daemon via dbus: The name org.gnome.keyring was not provided by any .service files".

Any ideas,

Hi, I am grateful for your help to make the vlc running on my aspire 110. The upgrade to 0.9.5 works fine for nearly all videos I tried. I keep the mplayer as the vlc does not play real media files.

One big problem remains: I want to play hardware compressed mjpeg / avi-files - only the audio works fine, the video does not work at all. The vlc uses the codec MJPG with a resolution 720x540 and framerate 25.000625 (is that important?).

Error messages:
"pulse error: Failed to connect to server: Connection refused" (I was not connected to www, run the video from the ssd)
"pulse error: pulse initialization failed"
"main error: decoder is leaking pictures, resetting the heap" ...this one very often.

I am sure that the file is alright, as the video does run in OpenOffice Impress.

Can you help me what might be wrong?

Thanks!!!! I love you!

BTW, if you are having problems installing VLC, try typing the commands again. It worked on my third attempt.

I have just loaded VLC from acer website nice and simple, but it wont play any movie tried AVI MP4 WMV even with the verbosity set to 2

thanks! i already made it on the 4th time but now i already have 4 vlc icons in my fun area? does anybody know how will i remove the 3 vlc icons? i read the instructions on how to remove the 2nd vlc icon. is it the same if you have 4 icons?

another problem is that there is a space between the 3rd (paint) icon and the 4th (games) icon in my fun area...how will i fix it?

After uninstalling Media Master, I have a blank space on my desktop which I can't drag another icon onto. How do I get rid of it?

Hello,

I know you must be geyting sick of people trying to install vlc, but I'm really stuck. I was hoping you could help me. I recently purchased an acer with linux operating system. I followed the instructions on your site and all the various links to other posts that you have posted in this thread, in order to install vlc on my netbook. When I run vlc, and attempt to play an avi file, I get the following error message:

"No suitable decoder module:
VLC does not support the audio or video format "XVID". Unfortunately there is no way for you to fix this."

I'm assuming there IS a way for me to fix this, as I know that vlc has no trouble with avi on other computers.

Any help or advice you could offer would be very much appreciated.

To the guy who is having the INTERNAL ERROR _ FAILED TO INITIALIZED HAL :

I have been having the same issue with my Aspire One of 3 days. I had to recover Linux 5 times until I figured out why (or at least it's my guess)

- You have probably followed a tweak to 'optimized the use of the nand disk' by adding a 'elevator = noop' in a file. That tweak is around on the internet. It helps when you have a nand disk.

- Then you did a LiveUpdate with the item 'Mass Storage Optimization' (or something like that); and it seems it conflicts with the tweak above. So it's either one or the other.

It's either one or the other. I suggest using the LiveUpdate rather than the tweak.

you are amazing!!!! thank you!!! after a month of searching, and almost regretting linux, finally i can play my avi files!!! and i got rid of that annoying media thing ;-)
thank you!!!

Thanks, this info is extremely professional and well put together. Keep it coming.

I am ALSO having a slight problem with my VLC installation. Ironically, because I was lacking codecs for MPlayer i was getting sound but no video. Now i've installed VLC, VLC plays video but no sound!!!!

I don't even want to entertain running both programs at once :> My aspire is a sweet little bundle, and i'm beginning to like quirky Linux (now that some problems have been sorted)....but the no-sound in VLC is my current nemesis. I've played with volume sliders on the front-end GUI and also inside the audio settings....no joy. I've switched the audio source even ticking the advanced option to work around messed up versions of a particular audio module (not got Aspire with me at present hence sketchy description...my wife is using it) Any suggestions?
Whit3sh33p

I'm having the same problem as Anonymous.
Downloaded VLC but get errors.

Missing Dependency: libpulse.so.0(PULSE_0) is needed by package vlc
Missing Dependency: libopendaap.so.0 is needed by package vlc-core
Missing Dependency: libdc1394.so.22 is needed by package ffmpeg-compat
Missing Dependency: libdvdnav.so.4 is needed by package vlc-core
Could you please tell me what the fix was?

If you are still having dependency problems after trying all the above like I was.
Check what yum repositories your system is using by issuing the command

yum repolist

If you get a list of repositories other than

fedora
rpmfusion-free
rpmfusion-free-updates
updates
updates-newkey

you will need to disable all other repositories by starting Package Manager. Navigate by using system menu (right click mouse on Desktop)
System->Add/Remove Software->Edit->Repositories
And uncheck all repositories except for the ones I have listed above.


Explanation Follows
Disable these repos and try again.

fedora-debuginfo
fedora-source
freshrpms
livna-debuginfo
livna-development
livna-development-so
livna-source

As a general rule, it's not such a good idea to mix more than 1 3rd party repo. You have freshrpms and livna which are both 3rd party and they often conflict with package versions and updates. It's also not suggested to use development repos (unless you are helping to test something) as the packages there are usually very buggy. This is why its suggested to disable the repos mentioned.

The command

sudo yum install fedora-release

does not work, the update is not available from the mirrors anymore. Any other alternative how to obtain it?

Thanks a lot Macle again.
Mia, you also deserve my gratitude for u have saved me from where i got lost through ur Dec 12, 2008 4:13:00 AM post. Now I can listen to my favourite webradios!
Ilma Ormaa
Stockholm

fantastic Macles
many many thanks for a simple basic solution for vlc install followed your instructions worked first time enjoying my music/ movies / videos on my new acer
(one day old). again thank you so much.

Help guys, when I try and add it to the desktop on terminal it says "command dca not found" or something...

I've tried the installation instructions for VLC shown here as well as several other Internet sites. I've tried the different repositories listed by various posters - rpmfusion, kwizart, etc. No matter what, doing a "yum install vlc" always results in the following:

Setting up Install Process
Parsing package install arguments
No package vlc available.
Nothing to do

I've tried "sudo yum install fedora-release" before starting the install, and just about every other suggestion I can find on the Internet. Nothing seems to install VLC. Am at my wits end on this. Could anyone offer any suggestions, please?

hi,i did your instructions at the top and it hasn't worked, obviously i've done something wrong and i've actually given up trying to instsll vlc or any video player on my aspire one. My only concern now is that i've ended up eith 2 identical strange icons in the "Fun" section that look creepy to me. They don't open anything when i click on them. They look like rings of cones, the little cones are blue, I've tried the command:
dca remove 12 "file='/usr/share/applications/livna-vlc.desktop'"
but this only removes other icons. I've now lost the icons for Photo Master, Media Master and something else but I can't quite figure out what. Does anyone have any idea how I can get rid of these ugly symbols and reinstate the original ones? Thanks.

a few minutes ago I posted a comment about getting some creepy icons instead of vlc ones. It's ok though because I've done the good old "switch it off and on again" idiot's failsafe and low and behold they're gone thank god. The other icons I inadvertently deleted are still gone but that doesn't worry me too much, I know how to get to those applications without the icons. It's truly a shame this netbook didn't come with a working video player.

Nice. Thanks.

Hi Macles

Great tutorial, thanks! But the command dca didn't work for me to add the icon on desktop. It says something like "dca command not found".
Help on this would be greatly appreciated.

Dear all,

When i input: sudo yum install --enablerepo=kwizart-testing vlc mozilla-vlc\
It appeared: removing mirrorlist with no valid mirrors: //var/cache/yum/rpmfusion-free-updates/mirrorlist.txt
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: rpmfusion-free-updates. Please verify its path and try again

Can anyone help me!
An

I used this tutorial to install vlc and it worked great--thanks. But of course, I happen to like Amarok for streaming radio, because of its ease of creating clickable playlists from radio streams. I was able to install it from add/remove programs (and install libxine codecs), and it works great, using the advanced menu.

I'd love to be able to install an icon for it in the default desktop. I've looked over the instructions for doing this with vlc (which I followed for vlc and it worked). It appears that you're looking to usr/share/applications to find a .desktop file, and when I look there, I don't find anything for amarok. Does the command "sudo sed s/%U// -i /usr/share/applications/livna-vlc.desktop" create the desktop file and can I do a similar thing to create an amarok file (I'll admit that .desktop files have always confused me, because when you look at them in file manager, they just show up as the icon).

Is there a guide that you've done to installing some other piece of software in the acer menu?

Thanks again--this site has been enormously useful.

Never mind--fixed it. The amarok.desktop file was hiding in /usr/share/applications/kde

Had used vlc successfully to watch several vids downloaded with get_iplayer, now the audio won't work!!
[0000387] alsa audio error: write failed (Streams pipe error)

Anyone else had this? got a fix?

hi...and thanx for the guide...it looks like the link http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm......is dead..any suggest??

evry time
Error: Missing Dependency: libpulse.so.0(PULSE_0) is needed by package vlc
Error: Missing Dependency: libdc1394.so.22 is needed by package ffmpeg-libs
Error: Missing Dependency: libdvdnav.so.4 is needed by package vlc-core

how i can solve this .
tanks all
sona

Thanks Macles, this worked a treat.

You know,
i was trying for 10 days now to understand the way of installing vlc.
I think that u rescued me. Thank u so much.
Keep trying!!!
Nickos,
Athens, Greece

Hi,

I've the same problem posted by Anonymous 31/1/2009, I lost the functionality of hotkeys for volume control (Fn-F8 and Fn arrow up/down). The volume can be controlled only by software. Please, any solution?

Thanks

I removed the media player software and installed vlc which went ok without a hitch. However, when I look at the desktop in the Fun section... the first spot for a program icon is blank. I tried to drag the vlc icon into that spot but it doesn't work. How do I move the VLC icon into the first spot in the Fun section where media player used to be?

Ok. Missed the fix for vlc icon placement. Did the mousepad edit command. Found "12" in front of vlc and after that something about placement. "5" was there. Changed it to a zero, rebooted and now VLC is the 1st icon in the Fun group... replacing the spot where media player used to be. I'm Happy now! Thanks.

Thank you for this great info! I'm used to SUSE Linux, but this is pretty different and now my husband's new little toy can play net radio stations!

Thanks to your tutorial I got the VLC installed and working. Now after couple weeks im missing sound.

Response to: the loss of audio in skype, loss of functionality of hotkeys for volume control (Fn-F8 and Fn arrow up/down) and to the constant muted icon of the right corner sound icon.

I have already activated the advanced desktop mode before installing skype: http://www.theacerguy.com/2008/07/getting-skype-on-the-aspire-one/

Then by right-clicking on the desktop -> settings -> pulseaudio preferences

And then, under the "simultaneous output" tab, just enable the "add virtual output device for simultaneous output on all sound cards".

This restores the hotkey functionality and the audio support in skype [by choosing everywhere HDA Intel (hw:intel,0) in skype taskbar: right-click -> "options" -> "sound devices" menu]

Correction: as I went through it again, it seems that the previous procedure isn't the one that corrects the problem.

Oddly enough, it's by inserting "pulseaudio" in the terminal window that corrects it. I'm sorry but as a windows user I don't have any experience in linux.

If someone could tell me how to load pulseaudio on startup without inserting it in the console window., I'd be grateful...

I think that installing skype prior to vlc messes things up (?)

I'm a total linux newbie and installation worked fine. However, vlc does not recognize any external drives or usb sticks. Any idea?

Hi Anonymous,

Have checked if your external devices can be "seen" in MY FILES?
Have you checked if VLC is indeed installed properly?

HELP! What does this mean?


Error Downloading Packages:
qt4-x11 - 4.4.3-1.fc8.i386: failure: qt4-x11-4.4.3-1.fc8.i386.rpm from updates-newkey: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
qt4 - 4.4.3-1.fc8.i386: failure: qt4-4.4.3-1.fc8.i386.rpm from updates-newkey: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
opencv - 1.0.0-3.fc8.i386: failure: Packages/opencv-1.0.0-3.fc8.i386.rpm from fedora: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
dejavu-fonts - 2.20-1.fc8.noarch: failure: Packages/dejavu-fonts-2.20-1.fc8.noarch.rpm from fedora: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
vlc-core - 0.9.5-3.fc8.i386: failure: vlc-core-0.9.5-3.fc8.i386.rpm from kwizart-testing: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
vlc - 0.9.5-3.fc8.i386: failure: vlc-0.9.5-3.fc8.i386.rpm from kwizart-testing: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.

Thank you very much.

macles* Thank-You for taking the time to write this. I am now watching avi,and mp4 format. For those having problems with errors please read mia's replay.By entering:
sudo yum install fedora-release
this updated my version of the key and I could therefore resolve the missing dependencies.

In short, from the beginning, I entered the following 4 statements:
sudo rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm
sudo rpm -Uvh http://rpms.kwizart.net/kwizart-release-8.rpm
sudo yum install fedora-release
sudo yum install --enablerepo=kwizart-testing vlc vlc-core mozilla-vlc

and now I have VLC! Thanks again Macles!

Mia

I also have the problem of the network center not working, and losing cable and wi-fi connections.
Any solution for this?

Thanks in advance.

Have VLC 0.8.7 working now have tried the 0.9 version and having problems playing VOB files. Unfortunately I am now getting the unable to open the "%U" message. Notice and earlier message says to add a line to delete. Has I am new user could you explain what I actually add to delete the message.

Many thanks for providing the information to get VLC on my AA1 - could not have done it without your guidance.

Mike

Thanks for a fantastic blog! My VLC works fine, but there is now no icon in the fun folder. Following the instructions I got the following message:

"[user@localhost ~]$ sudo sed s/%U// -i /usr/share/applications/livna-vlc.desktop
sed: can't read /usr/share/applications/livna-vlc.desktop: No such file or directory

I haven't seen an answer to this one yet, do you have any suggestions?

I did a stupid thing and I hope someone can help. I have steadfastly stayed away from making any changes on my Linux Aspire One because I know NOTHING about Linux. I did upgrade to Firfox3 and the new Open Office thanks to detailed instructions from this site. However, in an atempt to get a better media player I followed Macles' detailed instructions and put in VLC, version 0.9.5. As instructed in his first step, I deleted the mplayer part of Acer's Media Master. I made no backups. VLC doesn't play DVD'[s from my external Samsung usb DVD drive which Media Master played flawlessly. VLC completely locks up.

In a panic to rectify this problem, I installed smplayer which also doesn't work because it won't recognize my usb dvd drive in the config drive section. SO I AM STUCK! Can someone send me the file to put the complete Acer Media Master back in with detailed instructions on how to do this, or offer a solution. I loved using the Aspire One as a DVD movie viewer. I would just plug in dvd drive, pop in dvd, Media Master would automatically start and play my dvd. I want that again. Why won't VLC play DVD's. Someone said that version 0.8.7 does play DVD's but I don't know how to find it, how to remove the VLC 0.9, install previou version and need DETAILED instructions how to do all of this including adding any icons to the destop. But my first choice is to go back to Media Master. Thanks.

Thanks!!!!!
VLC now working on most media.

Origionally got:
Error: Missing Dependency: libpulse.so.0(PULSE_0) is needed by package vlc
Error: Missing Dependency: libdc1394.so.22 is needed by package ffmpeg-libs
Error: Missing Dependency: libdvdnav.so.4 is needed by package vlc-core

However it all installed after following the instructions from mia.
sudo rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm
sudo rpm -Uvh http://rpms.kwizart.net/kwizart-release-8.rpm
sudo yum install fedora-release
sudo yum install --enablerepo=kwizart-testing vlc vlc-core mozilla-vlc

Thanks - the info from mia (18 May) has added the missing icons to my desk top (and a few extras which I have deleted thanks to advice earlier in the blog).
This is a brilliant blog - so much useful information!!!

Great instructions as ever! worked straight away and managed to sort out the menu icons myself now I'm getting used to this OS.

However, when I double click on an AVI nothing happens...
File...Open... from within VLC opens movies fine...

On checking when I right click on the AVI, it shows 'Open with "Media Master"' as 1st, default option...even though I followed the instructions above to remove the old media master program.

Any suggestions how I update the file associations?

Thanks
Tony

Great blog, great job!
Installation worked fine at first attempt!
Now I have just one trouble: I can't play vob files and unfortunately I nedd to do it! VLC plays just an half second of video and audio, then stop.
My netbook is a 110L with Linpus, live updated.
How could I fix this problem?
Thanks, thanks thanks in advance!

Antonio

Same problem, put in VLC 0.9.5 and can't play DVDs on my external DVD drive. Plays for 3 seconds then stops. DVD player that was part of Media Master played DVD flawlessly, but I uninstalled that as instructed. How do you get VLC to play DVDs? Will VLC 0.8.7 play DVDs? If so how do you get that version and install it? Need detailed instructions because I know nothing about Linux.

Help!!!! Thank you so very much for writing this blog- with so much information I have used it many times, but now installing vlc dont work I get this error
: Missing Dependency: libpulse.so.0(PULSE_0) is needed by package vlc
Error: Missing Dependency: libdc1394.so.22 is needed by package ffmpeg-libs
Error: Missing Dependency: libdvdnav.so.4 is needed by package vlc-core
and what now?
Erik Jørgensen
Denmark

I got:
Error: Missing Dependency: libpulse.so.0(PULSE_0) is needed by package vlc
Error: Missing Dependency: libdc1394.so.22 is needed by package ffmpeg-libs
Error: Missing Dependency: libdvdnav.so.4 is needed by package vlc-core

too, so I went to http://www.acer.com/aspireone/support/files/fun.html and downloaded the 'official' vlc. Unzip and run sudo ./vlc.sh
That installs vlc and corrects the dependency problems - only this version of vlc lacks the librbaries to open video formats that most people want to watch.

So follow Macles installation again - only this time it all runs smoothly.

Hi,

How can I remove the VLC icon from my desktop, I have 3 of them:)

Thanks

Having installed version 0.8.7 on my AA1 I get a an error message saying unable to open "%U". If I clear the message all appears to work ok. Can anybody tell me how I can get rid of this message altogether.

Let me first confess that I'm a Linux Newbie.
I have just tried to load vlc:
first I did the "sudo yum install fedora-release" bit to get the new keys.
next I typed the first line of the main commands:
sudo rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm
This started out fine, but then I was told I needed release >= 10.1 for this download.
At that point I stopped.
A check of my repolist showed that I hadn't got the fusion repository, so I didn't try the next step.

(BTW, I had several hapless earlier attempts because "download1" is identical to "downloadl" (ie the letter small L is identical to the number 1) on the type face in which the original info was displayed in my browser. It was only when I cut and pasted into OOo that the confusion was cleared.)

Questions:
1. Is it "safe" to get release 10.1 (or whatever) without corrupting my A1? (All I want to to is to get a decent player and it will do all I want.)#
2. If not, what is the work-around? Do I use an older release and if so how (exactly).

Hi, when i run

sudo rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm

I get the following message.

Failed dependencies:
system-release >= 10 is needed by rpmfusion-free-release-10-5.noarch

does anyone have any ideas? Wouold this be why I am getting audiobut no video on VLC.

Thanks for any help.

If i did these commands on a netbook running linux linpus lite, where would i start vlc from?

THANKS SO MUCH AGAIN - YOU ARE THE MAN!

VLC SEEMS TO BE WORKING FINE :-)

RA

Thanks for the all the info all worked well installing VLC. Just have one question: I am unable to save playing lists. The source is an external drive but I am unable to save any play list.

Any suggestions - maybe I am too dumb.

Cheers - Klaus

I seem to be having the problem that others have mentioned ie. no sound. VLC installed with no obvious error messages. Mpeg4 files play perfectly but with no sound, same goes for music files. Games have sound and Media Player although no longer visible plays music files.
Have worked my way through the output options with no success. Help would be gratefully received.
Regards Colin

Thank you very much from a Linux newbie! After days of searching around, I can finally play divx videos on my AA1. I ran the Live Update and entered the sudo yum fedora-release command before I attempted installing VLC player, which I think helped to avoid the dependency problems that others have encountered. Thanks again!

Hello Macles

Thank you for all your amazing posts for someone like me who struggles installing software onto my acer one!

VLC Player 1.0 has now come out and has some really good features, is there anyway you could post how to install this and uninstall my current version 0.95, I currently have...

Many Thanks
Giles

Many Thanks have been trying for days to install this with no luck.

Love the how to's keep up the good work.

Mark.

Is there a way to upgrade form version 0.8.6i supplied by Acer to the new version 1.0?

Thanks

Hi - fantastically helpful blog, thanks

having installed VLC MP4 playback is very jerky, they are HD files and I've seen a comment elsewhere suggesting the AA1 may not be up to playing HD? Anyone know?

Hi I'm stuck with installing VLC and everything really.
I just get the following error message

[user@localhost ~]$ sudo yum install vlc mozilla-vlc
Could not retrieve mirrorlist http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-8&arch=i386 error was
[Errno 4] IOError: urlopen error (110, 'Connection timed out')>
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: fedora. Please verify its path and try again

I've removed leading angle bracket before urlopen in the error message above as this was throwing an error when I tried to post the message.

I seem to get something similar on the yum command for all these installs. I thought I had network problems, but firefox works fine, also traceroute and ping works fine on command line so I'm sure thee aren't networn probs.

I'm desperate for help here
Regards

Ed

Hi, Looks like a flaky network server at the far end. That and updating the dependencies seems to have solve the problem. Phew!

Regards

Ed

Thanks for everything here. I have been able to install Firefox 3, Open Office 3 and Thunderbird with no problems. I am still having issues playing .avi files on my Aspire One (running the Linpus Linux) in VLC. I thought I found the solution earlier in the blog, but when I put in the code, it said it was already installed. I am a newbie with Linux and don't know what to do. Should I uninstall VLC and retry? Can someone give me directions on how to do this?
Thanks,
Susannah

After my initial reboot the video did not work, but after shutting down and restarting, the video files play fine.
I am not sure what I did, but .avi and .mpg videos are playing with no sound issues.
Thanks again!
Susannah

Installs and plays great - thanks macles! YOU the best.

However I get the following message when opening VLC:

Unable to open '%U'

I saw in a previous post that you had added another line of code to remove this, but I have done all the lines :/

any idea how to fix this?

Regarding the VOB and DVD issue, after installing VLC on my AAO 110, I tested both without issue (video and pic for VOB was perfect), but after installing the Live Updates, VLC does no longer play VOB/DVD files, videos start but then freeze almost immediately. On the bright side, I can play DIVX absolutely fine.

Hi and thanks Macles, it worked like a charm..except for playing AVI files. I get the osund but no video. By default, the video track is set to disabled in the video menu, but even if select "track 01", the video still does not show... sound is perfect, no issue there..

The VLC that got installed following your guide is ver 0.8.61 janus (?)

Any help?

Cheers

This is what worked for me :


wget http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/updates/8/i386/rpmfusion-free-release-8-6.noarch.rpm

sudo yum install fedora-release
sudo rpm -U rpmfusion-free-release-8-6.noarch.rpm
sudo yum install vlc mozilla-vlc


I got dependency error for libx264.so.52 so I ran following commands that worked for me:

wget rpm.livna.org/fedora/archive/8/i386/x264-0-0.10.20070819.lvn8.i386.rpm
sudo rpm -U x264-0-0.10.20070819.lvn8.i386.rpm
sudo yum install ffmpeg
sudo yum install vlc mozilla-vlc

I am now able to see video etc on VLC...Thanks mate for ur help...:)

Cheers

Guys why miss up with your netbook, believe me i have installed and modified and played around with this poor AA0 of mine, it has seen all th flavors of linux but at end of the day, im just using it if im away travelling and only for brouwsing, so why bother modifying it as it always break it. so i decided this time i put back limpus as its the fastest running distro on the acer one and dont modify anything just leave it as it is and guess what i love it like this, it does the job with firefox 2 it doesnt stall the system UIM works perfect,, so why bother, if you need all the other stuff get a real notebook or pc in force sake

Thank you soooooo much!It works perfect.THANK YOU!!!!

hi thank you very very much for this tutorial found it by accedent and i can watch avi on linpus at last very happy indeed thank you

Hello

The blogspot is very useful and I've recomended the site to other aspire users

The problem I have a the moment is that the VLC does not seem to want to play AVI files. The sound comes through but the video does not. I've gone through the whole thread and have updated the files as stated but still have the problem.

Any ideas?

I have been having the same problem, as in I can not seem to be quite IT literrate enough as to download VLC.
I get to all the posts, but I don't understand where I am supposed to type in the commands to install.
I also own an acer aspire one, and love it to bits, only the codecs are a rather annoying thing to have missing.
can someone help me?

Hello I write this as of september 09.

Having to reinstall VLC after a complete linux reinstall I have the following problem. When I type the command 'sudo sed -i /usr/share/applications/livna-vlc.desktop s/%U//' the computer replies with 'sed: -e expression #1, char 41: unterminated `s' command' and I'm cofused as I copy and pasted the command for this page.

When I start VLC I get the %U message so can someone help as I'm a linux newbie and this is getting quite frustrating, as reading through the thred here the line of code should have been updated.

frustrated of London

What happened with version 0.9???
There has been some changes here. Version 0.8.6 is quite old and seem to play less formats than 0.9, and there is the issue with the %U error message.

the sound on video files are crancy.

Low sounds are fine but high sounds are not clear but crancy.

Does anybody know how to fix this??

thanks

Hey, I've typed in the command sudo yum install fedora-release into the terminal as root user and absolutely nothing happens? Any ideas? Thanks

Hi macles , see you're a crack on linpus , I'm from france And I'm getting crazy with that thing :


[root@localhost user]# sudo yum install vlc mozilla-vlc
audit_log_user_command(): Connection refused
Setting up Install Process
Parsing package install arguments
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package vlc.i386 0:0.8.7-0.8.fc8 set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: vlc-core = 0.8.7-0.8.fc8 for package: vlc
---> Package mozilla-vlc.i386 0:0.8.7-0.8.fc8 set to be updated
--> Running transaction check
---> Package vlc-core.i386 0:0.8.7-0.8.fc8 set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: libliveMedia.so.0 for package: vlc-core
--> Processing Dependency: libpostproc-compat.so.51 for package: vlc-core
--> Processing Dependency: libavutil-compat.so.49 for package: vlc-core
--> Processing Dependency: libBasicUsageEnvironment.so.0 for package: vlc-core
--> Processing Dependency: libavcodec-compat.so.51 for package: vlc-core
--> Processing Dependency: libavformat-compat.so.52 for package: vlc-core
--> Processing Dependency: libx264.so.60 for package: vlc-core
--> Processing Dependency: libUsageEnvironment.so.0 for package: vlc-core
--> Processing Dependency: libgroupsock.so.0 for package: vlc-core
--> Running transaction check
---> Package live555.i386 0:0-0.20.2008.07.25.fc8 set to be updated
---> Package ffmpeg-compat.i386 0:0.4.9-0.48.20080225.fc8 set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: libdc1394.so.22 for package: ffmpeg-compat
---> Package x264-libs.i386 0:0.0.0-0.15.20080613.fc8 set to be updated
--> Running transaction check
---> Package libdc1394.i386 0:2.0.2-1.fc8 set to be updated
--> Finished Dependency Resolution

Dependencies Resolved

=============================================================================
Package Arch Version Repository Size
=============================================================================
Installing:
mozilla-vlc i386 0.8.7-0.8.fc8 rpmfusion-free-updates 60 k
Installing for dependencies:
ffmpeg-compat i386 0.4.9-0.48.20080225.fc8 rpmfusion-free-updates 1.8 M
libdc1394 i386 2.0.2-1.fc8 updates-newkey 114 k
live555 i386 0-0.20.2008.07.25.fc8 rpmfusion-free-updates 314 k
vlc i386 0.8.7-0.8.fc8 rpmfusion-free-updates 1.5 M
x264-libs i386 0.0.0-0.15.20080613.fc8 rpmfusion-free-updates 203 k
Updating for dependencies:
vlc-core i386 0.8.7-0.8.fc8 rpmfusion-free-updates 5.2 M

Transaction Summary
=============================================================================
Install 6 Package(s)
Update 1 Package(s)
Remove 0 Package(s)

Total download size: 9.2 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
Running rpm_check_debug
ERROR with rpm_check_debug vs depsolve:
Package ffmpeg-libs needs libx264.so.56, this is not available.
Complete!

Please try to help me :(

Marie

hi i have no sound but evry thing else is great can ya help

Totally Brilliant Macles - I have no previous experience with Linux but your tutorial/links helped me install Firefox 3 & VLC WITH divx codec (unlike the rubbish version you get from acer).I had a few problems along the way,but with a bit of guesswork & your info as backup it is now up & running fine!! Thanks