Originally Posted by somekeystrokes (Post 729920)

There isnt any gui?
if thre isnt...thn how do i play video files?

Originally Posted by Bratag (Post 746526)

Cant say this is faster than mplayer - unless I am doing something wrong.

Originally Posted by extent (Post 746545)

what do you mean by faster? do you have videos that play fine on pc vlc, yet in n900 vlc they are skipping or losing frames?

Originally Posted by navsin (Post 746770)

Does this player support the mkv formats? Mplayer can't play most of the mkv files.

Originally Posted by AgvirtheSilent (Post 728593)

The reason why it doesn't work is because some of the symbolic links point to the icons in their optified locations that quite frankly don't exist, and when you try to start VLC you apparently click through the non-existant icon to the desktop. (Every time I tried it opened my RSS feeds...)

To fix this annoying issue, you need to remove the symbolic links for these files with root privledges, namely:
and give your device a reboot so it can find the icon.

Originally Posted by maxximuscool (Post 752075)

rm /usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/hildon/vlc.png
rm /usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/hildon/vlc.png
rm /usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/hildon/vlc.png

The path of the commands above are incorrect. I just want to point out the right location of this. Here is the correct one.

rm /opt/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/hildon/vlc.png
rm /opt/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/hildon/vlc.png
rm /opt/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/hildon/vlc.png

:) this will work

Originally Posted by SAABoy (Post 752226)

Noob question:
What is all the "VLC" fuss about? Aren't there like 5 different 'media' players we can download for the n900? Does anyone here really use anything other than the built in one?

Originally Posted by casper27 (Post 724834)

Not really an installable as its a bit of an Alpha release but here is the dev page

http://www.remlab.net/files/vlc/fremantle/

You need to install these files
libvlc5_1.1.0~git5935-1_armel.deb vlc-nox_1.1.0~git5935-1_armel.deb
vlc-player-nox_1.1.0~git5935-1_armel.deb
vlc-player_1.1.0~git5935-1_armel.deb

There all .debs so just download them to the n900. Default is /home/user/MyDocs

Then run You will have to do this in order the lib first then vlc-nox, player-nox, player.

When you have Vlc installed simply run

vlc /path to file

ie
vlc /home/user/MyDocs/test.avi

If you are feeling really adventurous you could try dbus-switchboard that qole is developing to handle certain files by vlc automatically.

All usual warnings apply for using Alpha software. It can/will be buggy and very hard to uninstall.:)

Originally Posted by kevloral (Post 728146)

URL: http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/maemo/
Distribution: fremantle
Components: free

Greetings.

Originally Posted by SAABoy (Post 752226)

Noob question:
What is all the "VLC" fuss about? Aren't there like 5 different 'media' players we can download for the n900? Does anyone here really use anything other than the built in one?

Originally Posted by HeavyComponent (Post 752247)

Says there are major issues and wait for final release!



This doesn't seem to work!

Anyone know when a stable version will be released?

Originally Posted by jubei80 (Post 752279)

Worked for me & i did it about 4hrs ago

URL: http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/maemo/
Distribution: fremantle
Components: free

didn't even have the icon problem (although i did a reboot after install)

just add as a new catalogue & search in media , then wala!

Originally Posted by jakiman (Post 752237)

Some have more features, some have better performance. I don't really care about it being "VLC". I've only used it for my PC once to try out. I just want a player that plays my videos smoothly on the N900 with useful options such as resume, aspect ratio, zoom/pan/scan etc. Built-in one definitely isn't as good as mplayer for example. mplayer has keyboard controls which I find extremely useful. (kmplayer and sib are just some of the front ends to mplayer)

More variety the better really. Then I have more chance of finding an app that I want. =)

Anyways, so far, this vlc player for the N900 is much worse than mplayer for now. Videos play really choppy. But some others report that it's butter smooth? Why is that?

Originally Posted by jubei80 (Post 752241)

does it actually load subtitle files? Cant get my only test movie to work with subtitles

Originally Posted by kamishly (Post 752293)

In the parent directory, there's 7 links.

Which one to download for N900??

Thanks!

Originally Posted by jubei80 (Post 752279)

Worked for me & i did it about 4hrs ago

URL: http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/maemo/
Distribution: fremantle
Components: free

didn't even have the icon problem (although i did a reboot after install)

just add as a new catalogue & search in media , then wala!

Originally Posted by HeavyComponent (Post 754254)

Alright I got it to work, but after installation the application just reboots my N900. ...every time.

Also there is no icon for this app.

Solution?

Originally Posted by HeavyComponent (Post 754303)

EDIT: I put in the first command...

rm /usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/hildon/vlc.png

And this is what it said...

"cannot remove: No such file or directory".

Originally Posted by HeavyComponent (Post 754303)

xuggs,

What about the reboot issues? Those commands are for the icon right?

Thanks!

EDIT: I put in the first command...

rm /usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/hildon/vlc.png

And this is what it said...

"cannot remove: No such file or directory".