It will not work, sorry. If it did, I could have released Knots ages ago Ruby version should be ok though.

EDIT: I think I could actually make it work with few changes but you would lose the ability to follow stream progress which means you would need to press stop manually after stream ends. You could actually seek but the progress would always show 0 percent. Also I would have to kill all VLC processes when you press stop.

EDIT2: does this help? http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-mandriva.html