VLC Interface Error

[Jasper Frumau]

On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 11:10 AM, Scott Haneda <talklists at newgeo.com> wrote:

> On Oct 3, 2010, at 11:35 PM, Jasper Frumau <jasperfrumau at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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>http://pastebin.com/6T7hbd1x . Will ask for
> help at VLC forum. Thanks
>
>
> Just curious... How come you want to use MacPorts to install VLC when VLC
> has releases that are build as UB's for all relevant Mac OS X versions.
>

Had VLC installed via Mac's precompiled VLC image already, but it wouldn't
and still won't play the DVD. Was hoping the MacPorts version would and that
I could otherwise upgrade it easily like I did the VLC player under Ubuntu
in my virtual box. It did already play in VMWare/Ubuntu+VLC


>
> I could understand wanting to hand build the software to tune and customize
> it to a specialized or specific need. But MacPorts isn't really going to
> help you much there.
>
> With the portfile being out of date and deps being unstable, I'm wondering
> what the gain is in your/this case?
>
> I've wondered this about a few other softwares in MacPorts. Pretty much
> anything with a native non x11 GUI doesn't make sense to me. The .dmg seems
> easier. Updates are provided in app most of the time. Time to download
> versus build is probably going to be longer on the build method too.
>

Installed the latest VLC .dmg again. Had errors reading the DVD again. The
DVD that did run under VLC/Ubuntu with the mentioned added dvdread4. Posted
a message on the VLC forum.


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