`Hi, has anyone figured out how to get VLC working in 11.4? This is M5, BTW. Need repos if possible.
Have you tried the 11.3 Packman repo
Many have been as vlc is not in Factory packman
Yes, I did but I get dependency errors with VLC. Also tried the Packman factory repo and the Videolan factory repo but the VLC from videolan just locks up. The one from Packman works great on my 11.3 install. I can use kaffeine but it’s nothing special. Thanks for the reply.
Trying the Packman packged 11.3 version probably does not hurt to try as a temporary measure. It can be removed if it does not work.
I took a look to see what would be required to rebuild vlc on my 11.4 M5 KDE4 PC and I obtained this:
oldcpu@sandbox:~/rpms> rpmbuild --rebuild vlc-1.1.5-4.pm.9.1.src.rpm
Installing vlc-1.1.5-4.pm.9.1.src.rpm
warning: InstallSourcePackage at: psm.c:244: Header V3 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 9a795806: NOKEY
error: Failed build dependencies:
liba52-devel is needed by vlc-1.1.5-4.pm.9.1.i586
libffmpeg-devel is needed by vlc-1.1.5-4.pm.9.1.i586
libgcrypt-devel is needed by vlc-1.1.5-4.pm.9.1.i586
libmad-devel is needed by vlc-1.1.5-4.pm.9.1.i586
libqt4-devel is needed by vlc-1.1.5-4.pm.9.1.i586
lua-devel is needed by vlc-1.1.5-4.pm.9.1.i586
update-desktop-files is needed by vlc-1.1.5-4.pm.9.1.i586
gnutls-devel is needed by vlc-1.1.5-4.pm.9.1.i586
flac-devel is needed by vlc-1.1.5-4.pm.9.1.i586
gnome-vfs2-devel is needed by vlc-1.1.5-4.pm.9.1.i586
libass-devel is needed by vlc-1.1.5-4.pm.9.1.i586
libavahi-devel is needed by vlc-1.1.5-4.pm.9.1.i586
libcaca-devel is needed by vlc-1.1.5-4.pm.9.1.i586
libcddb-devel is needed by vlc-1.1.5-4.pm.9.1.i586
libcdio-devel is needed by vlc-1.1.5-4.pm.9.1.i586
libdvbpsi-devel is needed by vlc-1.1.5-4.pm.9.1.i586
libdvdnav-devel is needed by vlc-1.1.5-4.pm.9.1.i586
libebml-devel is needed by vlc-1.1.5-4.pm.9.1.i586
fluidsynth-devel is needed by vlc-1.1.5-4.pm.9.1.i586
libkate-devel is needed by vlc-1.1.5-4.pm.9.1.i586
libmatroska-devel is needed by vlc-1.1.5-4.pm.9.1.i586
libmodplug-devel is needed by vlc-1.1.5-4.pm.9.1.i586
libmpcdec-devel is needed by vlc-1.1.5-4.pm.9.1.i586
libmpeg2-devel is needed by vlc-1.1.5-4.pm.9.1.i586
libmtp-devel is needed by vlc-1.1.5-4.pm.9.1.i586
libnotify-devel is needed by vlc-1.1.5-4.pm.9.1.i586
libproxy-devel is needed by vlc-1.1.5-4.pm.9.1.i586
librsvg-devel is needed by vlc-1.1.5-4.pm.9.1.i586
libshout-devel is needed by vlc-1.1.5-4.pm.9.1.i586
libsmbclient-devel is needed by vlc-1.1.5-4.pm.9.1.i586
libtwolame-devel is needed by vlc-1.1.5-4.pm.9.1.i586
libudev-devel is needed by vlc-1.1.5-4.pm.9.1.i586
libupnp-devel is needed by vlc-1.1.5-4.pm.9.1.i586
libv4l-devel is needed by vlc-1.1.5-4.pm.9.1.i586
live-devel is needed by vlc-1.1.5-4.pm.9.1.i586
portaudio-devel is needed by vlc-1.1.5-4.pm.9.1.i586
sqlite3-devel is needed by vlc-1.1.5-4.pm.9.1.i586
taglib-devel is needed by vlc-1.1.5-4.pm.9.1.i586
valgrind-devel is needed by vlc-1.1.5-4.pm.9.1.i586
zvbi-devel is needed by vlc-1.1.5-4.pm.9.1.i586
libprojectM-devel is needed by vlc-1.1.5-4.pm.9.1.i586
libfaad-devel is needed by vlc-1.1.5-4.pm.9.1.i586
SDL-devel is needed by vlc-1.1.5-4.pm.9.1.i586
libva-devel is needed by vlc-1.1.5-4.pm.9.1.i586
libpulse-devel is needed by vlc-1.1.5-4.pm.9.1.i586
aalib-devel is needed by vlc-1.1.5-4.pm.9.1.i586
libdca-devel is needed by vlc-1.1.5-4.pm.9.1.i586
DirectFB-devel is needed by vlc-1.1.5-4.pm.9.1.i586
libid3tag-devel is needed by vlc-1.1.5-4.pm.9.1.i586
mozilla-xulrunner192-devel is needed by vlc-1.1.5-4.pm.9.1.i586
opencv-devel is needed by vlc-1.1.5-4.pm.9.1.i586
pcre-devel is needed by vlc-1.1.5-4.pm.9.1.i586
vcdimager-devel is needed by vlc-1.1.5-4.pm.9.1.i586
xosd-devel is needed by vlc-1.1.5-4.pm.9.1.i586
lirc-devel is needed by vlc-1.1.5-4.pm.9.1.i586
oldcpu@sandbox:~/rpms>
Hmmm … thats a lot of “devel” bloat just to rebuild vlc on a sandbox PC.
I decided it was not worth my while to rebuild for my own testing on 11.4 M5. Besides, I need to run to work in 15 minutes and not enough time.
But one ‘could’ try to install all those devel packages and then try to rebuild it. One can get the src rpm of vlc packaged by packman from: PackMan :: Package details for vlc
Thanks for taking the time with it. I agree, it’s not worth fooling with.
Anyone try the 11.3 VLC repo, just to really mess things up :-))
I had it working in M5 and now in build 687 by using:
VLC repo:
download.videolan.org
/pub/vlc/SuSE/Factory/
Packman repo:
packman.jacobs-university.de
/suse/factory/
Try it if you dare… I dont give any backup 
VLC using the packman repo for 11.3 works fine but you have to downgrade DirectFB to an earlier version. This causes problems with the packman factory version of MPlayer (which uses the latest version of DirectFB). But if you use both VLC and MPlayer from packman 11.3 repo (with the downgraded DirectFB) everything works fine.
Thanks for the replies everyone. I managed to get Kaffeine to work, so I decided not to fudge around with VLC until the repos get sorted out.