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Date:      Tue, 14 Aug 2012 18:51:18 +0200
From:      Rainer Hurling <rhurlin@gwdg.de>
To:        Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de>
Cc:        freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: More rtld trouble
Message-ID:  <502A8206.4090505@gwdg.de>
In-Reply-To: <20120814114214.GB94259@triton8.kn-bremen.de>
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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 ;-)

Greetings,
Rainer


>   Thanx,
> 	Juergen




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