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

[Juergen Lock]

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

 Happy testing!
	Juergen