vlc 2.0.3 ProjectM path fix (was: Re: More rtld trouble)

[Chris Rees]

On 14 August 2012 20:24, Juergen Lock <nox at jelal.kn-bremen.de> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 06:51:18PM +0200, Rainer Hurling wrote:
>> On 14.08.2012 13:42 (UTC+2), Juergen Lock wrote:
>> > On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 06:40:14AM +0200, Rainer Hurling wrote:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Am 13.08.2012 23:46 (UTC+1) schrieb Juergen Lock:
>> >>> [removed kan and kib from Cc as this is now not about rtld in fact]
>> >>>
>> >>> On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 11:11:09PM +0200, Juergen Lock wrote:
>> >>>> Hi kib, kan, sorry to bother you again but... :)
>> >>>>
>> >>>> On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 09:53:55PM +0200, Rainer Hurling wrote:
>> >>>>> On 13.08.2012 21:24 (UTC+2), Rainer Hurling wrote:
>> >>>>>> On 13.08.2012 19:45 (UTC+2), Juergen Lock wrote:
>> >>>>>>> On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 07:34:45AM +0200, Rainer Hurling wrote:
>> >>>> [...]
>> >>>>>>> I just posted the workaround for that crash:
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>       http://people.freebsd.org/~nox/tmp/vlc-2.0.3-009.patch
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>> Thanks for the newest patch! The change from
>> >>>>>> sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX) to LINE_MAX + 1 works nice here. No core
>> >>>>>> dumps any more and sound via pulseaudio is working again :)
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>>>      I'll Cc the pulseaudio port maintainers (gnome@), maybe they have
>> >>>>>>>>> an idea?
>> >>>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>> Did you forgot to Cc gnome@ (even on the other thread)?
>> >>>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>     Yeah, I manually forwarded the mail when I noticed.
>> >>>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>> I tried out a little bit the build without pulseaudio enabled. It seems
>> >>>>>>>> to me, that the sound of vlc is somewhat noisy or dirty, especially for
>> >>>>>>>> parts with more dynamics. This scratchy noise grows up when gain control
>> >>>>>>>> comes over 100% (up to 200% is possible). Can anyone confirm this?
>> >>>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>     I haven't noticed that here, maybe your soundcard is clipping etc
>> >>>>>>> due to too high mixer levels?
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>> Hmm, possible, but unlikely. This worked pretty good with version 1.1.13
>> >>>>>> and as I wrote, gain control was set in the middle (100%). But now, with
>> >>>>>> pulseaudio enabled again, there is not problem with damaged sound
>> >>>>>> quality any more.
>> >>>>>>
>> >>> Btw it's still possible that different mixer items cause different
>> >>> clipping etc, for example vol 100 and pcm low sounds worse than
>> >>> vol 75 and pcm higher, etc.  (Maybe pulseaudio does that...?)
>> >>
>> >> OK, thanks for the hint. I will have a further look at mixer. There are
>> >> also some combinations like with kmix etc., that are not exactly
>> >> represented in mixer settings ...
>> >>
>> >>>>>>>> And last but not least: When I deinstall vlc I get the following
>> >>>>>>>> message:
>> >>>>>>>> pkg_delete: '/usr/local/lib/vlc/plugins/plugins.dat' fails original MD5
>> >>>>>>>> checksum - deleted anyway.
>> >>>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>     That's the file whose generating crashed when building with the old
>> >>>>>>> vlc still installed, maybe it's regenerated at runtime otherwise?
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>> No, it also fails original MD5 checksum with deinstall/reinstall within
>> >>>>>> 2.0.3.
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>> Thanks again for your work on this port.
>> >>>>>>>> Rainer
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>     You're welcome! :)
>> >>>>>>>       Juergen
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> I just found two other problems, which at least occur on my system
>> >>>>> (10.0-CURRENT amd64):
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> (1) With option NOTIFY enabled I am able to build, but not to install
>> >>>>> vlc. It gives me:
>> >>>>>
>> >>>> [...]
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> (2) Option PROJM builds and installs, but crashes when I try to start it
>> >>>>> within vlc:
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> No Textures Loaded from /usr/local/share/projectM/textures
>> >>>>> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> As far as I can see, there is no path to projectM/textures (installed
>> >>>>> from libprojectM) on FreeBSD, but to projectM/presets?
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>    I'll have to look at that next...
>> >>>>>
>> >>> Hmm, cannot seem to reproduce this one, sorry.  (Or do I have to do
>> >>> something special in vlc to activate it?  I just tried playing a
>> >>> video file...)
>> >>
>> >> I have the problem with ProjectM when playing audio files and turn the
>> >> ProjectM visualizations on. It immediately crashes.
>> >>
>> > Yes, I meanwhile found this too.  Maybe our projectm port version
>> > is too old?
>>
>> I think I got it: It is only a problem of configuring in the running
>> vlc. You have to set the right path under
>> 'Settings','All','Audio','Visualizing','projectM'. That's all ;-)
>>
> Aah-haah! :)  I've fixed the default paths and made a new patch:
>
>         http://people.freebsd.org/~nox/tmp/vlc-2.0.3-010.patch

Is there anything I can do to the projectM port to make it easier for you?

I'll see if I can get it to 2.1.0 shortly.

Chris