Yay for Debian!

Posted by stephen on Thursday, 11th August, 2005 @ 18:34

Woohoo! After thinking about it for a bit I remembered that VLC compiles against the kernel's DVB code. So I fished about and found apt-build which allows me to install a Debian package from source. So after a few ups and downs I've got my own homebrewed vlc package and hoorah, it doesn't segfault.

Now to see if it consumes ridiculous amounts of RAM. Fingers crossed. I'm going to rebuild it now, but tweak the version numbers slightly then upload it to the neuron packages repository mentioned in the last post should anyone find it useful. I know I will.

I've still not got around building my own Debian package, want to get all the scripts we use to run VLC and stop it multicasting everywhere packaged up nicely. Watch this space.