SOLVED: Thumbnailer and VLC Questions

[Zt291245]

Hi:

Trying to help myself here but I'm running into things I don't understand.

I installed ffmpeg and ffmgegthumbnailer using the G-splat pkg mgr. For some reason it didn't show the thumbnail to the video I have in my video's directory.
I need to be able to see the picture of the video instead of the picture of the wheel with the movie strip wrapped around it.
What would I need to do in order to get the thumbnails for videos?
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Looking in the SlackBuilds repo I really do not want to install 43 dependent libraries in order for VLC to be installed.

I looked in the Sourcery SlackBuild Mgr and the closest thing to VLC was vlsub. Is that what I need?
Is there another way to install VLC in Salix?

[laprjns]

I installed ffmpeg and ffmgegthumbnailer using the G-splat pkg mgr. For some reason it didn't show the thumbnail to the video I have in my video's directory.
I need to be able to see the picture of the video instead of the picture of the wheel with the movie strip wrapped around it.
What would I need to do in order to get the thumbnails for videos?

Assuming that you are using Thunar as you file manager, then you need to install thunar-thumbnailers. To do this you are going to need to install tetex first, reboot your computer (there may be a better way than to reboot, but that the only way I know) then install thunar-thumbnailer. You can either use Sourcery or the command line equivalent slapt-src or even spi. Using spi do this.

Update the package cashe

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$sudo spi -u 

Install tetex

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$sudo spi -i tetex

reboot (again there maybe a better way but this is all I got right now)

install thunar-thumbnailers

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$sudo spi pi thunar-thumbnailer

Looking in the SlackBuilds repo I really do not want to install 43 dependent libraries in order for VLC to be installed.

These can all be installed using the Salix Codec Installer. You can do this by going into the men and running it, (Salix => Multimedia => install multimedia codecs) or by command line like this:

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$ sudo salix-codecs-installer

I looked in the Sourcery SlackBuild Mgr and the closest thing to VLC was vlsub. Is that what I need?
Is there another way to install VLC in Salix?

Well frankly you are a little ahead of the game right now, Salix has only just released it first release candidate for 14.2 and the corresponding repositories ( Salix binary and Sbo mirrors) are really not yet fully functionality. In 14.1 to intall vlc, all you needed to do was "sudo spi -i vlc" and eveything got installed. That's what will happen eventually for 14.2, just not there yet

As for installing vlc now, you can run the slackbuild manually but you will run into dependencies issues both building the package and running it. Alienbob has a pre-built package but there will be run time dependencies issues.

[djemos]

vlc-2.2.2 and vlc-2.2.4 cannot build with ffmpeg-3.x.x Can run with ffmpeg 3.x installed but this is wrong.
We need to downgrade ffmpeg to 2.8.7.
I have test this. I have made the packages for vlc-2.2.4 and when ffmpeg downgrade to 2.8.7, i will upload them to package submissions.

[Zt291245]

Updating the pkg cache, installing tetex and rebooting was successful.
Running the cmd you posted for the codecs-installer went well. I now have a picture of the video that I needed.
Thank you; laprjns:-

That's what will happen eventually for 14.2, just not there yet

I understand that this will take time. Could you give me a ballpark idea of when I could be able to install VLC with the spi -i cmd?

[Zt291245]

Thanks again-

[gapan]

vlc-2.2.2 and vlc-2.2.4 cannot build with ffmpeg-3.x.x Can run with ffmpeg 3.x installed but this is wrong.
We need to downgrade ffmpeg to 2.8.7.
I have test this. I have made the packages for vlc-2.2.4 and when ffmpeg downgrade to 2.8.7, i will upload them to package submissions.

No, we will not downgrade ffmpeg. There are other ways to deal with this. We can either:

1. have a separate ffmpeg2.8 package that can be installed along side the ffmpeg package we already have without conflicts and have vlc use that instead
2. build a static ffmpeg and include it in the vlc package.

From those two, I prefer option 2. Don't do anything, I can deal with it too.

[djemos]

OK.
There are also these deps needed for vlc. (chromaprint, fluidsync, freerdp, ftgl, goocanvas, libavc1394, libupnp, live555, lua, vcdimager, projectM) All these can be found on http://people.salixos.org/djemos/salix in case someone need anyone of them.
I have build them but there is always the option to create a vlc package with all deps included like alien bob does. In this case we can use the existing package from alien bob slackbuilds.

[gapan]

I have already uploaded a vlc package in the repos. Please try it out. It includes everything static, so doesn't need many dependencies. I used the alienbob scripts to build them.

[djemos]

It is working. It was build using qt5 and not qt4 which is the default in slackware. Also as in my vlc package projectM does not work from vlc. I could not solve this. It returns a mpgatofixed32 audio converter error: libmad error: bad main_data_begin pointer
It is working fine in clementine though.