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A Full-Featured Multimedia Slackware

I posted a short mini guide called A Full-Featured Multimedia Slackware. I would be grateful for comments and suggestions to improve the piece.

I am not much of a GTK/Xfce user and I could use help in that area.

A Full-Featured Multimedia Slackware

Thanks much!

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Originally Posted by Woodsman (Post 3383228)

I posted a short mini guide called A Full-Featured Multimedia Slackware. I would be grateful for comments and suggestions to improve the piece.

Mention of Kaffeine would be nice. To my experience it works very well when people just want to insert and play a dvd.

Kaffeine is my favourite DVD player - supports the DVD menus which MPlayer and variants do not do.

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Mention of Kaffeine would be nice.

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Kaffeine is my favourite DVD player

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Would be even better if all the references you make to the different software requirements were active hyperlinks. Still, a very good guide.

I'm on xfce at the moment. I tried to find a good burner for xfce and I found xfburn. After a few hours of trying to make it work, I gave up. I failed to get it to read and burn audio files(.wav and .mp3) and it froze a lot on me. Killing the process id didn't work either and I had to restart the computer to get rid of it. And also most importantly, I couldn't get it do multisession data writing.

I finally came across X-CD-Roast and it got the job done. As far as I know, X-CD-Roast uses cdrtools such as cdrecord. It can write data, audio, capable of doing multisession recordings, and all other great stuff.

Oh yea and I forgot to mention...that's a really cool guide you have there. I know nothing about kde or k3b. I heard from rumors that you can use k3b on xfce 4.4.*. I haven't tried it yet, but when I do I'll be sure to check back at your guide. I'm bookmarking your page if you don't mind, hehe.

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Would be even better if all the references you make to the different software requirements were active hyperlinks.

I thought about that but wanted to keep the guide generic. Still, most people trying to build Slackware into a multimedia machine are likely to be new people rather than veteran Slackers. Links to the build scripts and complete packages might be a good idea, but the challenge there is the links change every Slackware release. Perhaps I'll add links to slackbuilds.org and slacky.eu. People who want complete packages can try the latter.

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I'm on xfce at the moment. I tried to find a good burner for xfce and I found xfburn . . . I finally came across X-CD-Roast and it got the job done.

The Zenwalk folks use Brasero. I don't know if that is a good selection, but Zenwalk is an Xfce-only Slackware derivative distro.

Woodsman:

Nice guide. Just a few minor things with the digiKam part. imlib2 has not been a dependency of kipi-plugins for some time now and dcraw is not a dependency of digiKam or kipi-plugins, since libkdcraw includes its own version of dcraw. Also, sqlite is now included with digiKam itself. I would make reference somewhere that if users wish to compile against the sqlite included with Slackware 12.2, that they will need to add '--without-included-sqlite3' to their configure. The digiKam slackbuild at SBo uses this option by default.

rc nai:

xfburn just came out with version 0.4.0. They may have fixed the issues you have been having with it. Might be worth another look.

Frank

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Just a few minor things with the digiKam part. imlib2 has not been a dependency of kipi-plugins for some time now and dcraw is not a dependency of digiKam or kipi-plugins, since libkdcraw includes its own version of dcraw. Also, sqlite is now included with digiKam itself. I would make reference somewhere that if users wish to compile against the sqlite included with Slackware 12.2, that they will need to add '--without-included-sqlite3' to their configure. The digiKam slackbuild at SBo uses this option by default.

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I want to thank everybody for your feedback. I hope the short guide helps others. Perhaps some day I'll add direct links to the build scripts or packages, but for now I think a decent foundation exists.

Thanks again!

I never thought I'd see multimedia "just working right" on Slackware. It took an evening for me to find and install the "Basic Support" packages. The transcode SlackBuild for 12.2 didn't compile properly, so I used a version for 12.1 and it seems to work okay. Great writeup!

Hmm. I just updated transcode the other day in my 12.2 box and the package built without errors. On the other hand, I haven't built the multimedia support from scratch in a long time. Perhaps that would be a good way to test my guide. :)

Woodsman, if it helps, this is part of the console output from the 12.2 slackbuild for transcode-1.0.7. The install was on a near virgin Slack 12.2.

And to answer the obvious question, I did install 12.2 packages in the recommended order (binary packages from slacky.eu when available, otherwise built from packages at slackbuilds.org. I threw in a couple of ldconfigs for good measure.

Code:

checking for pkgconfig support for libavcodec... yes

checking how to determine LIBAVCODEC_CFLAGS... pkg-config

checking libavcodec/avcodec.h usability... yes

checking libavcodec/avcodec.h presence... yes

checking for libavcodec/avcodec.h... yes

checking how to determine LIBAVCODEC_LIBS... pkg-config

checking for avcodec_thread_init in -lavcodec... no



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Summary for transcode 1.0.7:

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core options

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static AV-frame buffering      yes

network (sockets) streams      yes

NUV format support            yes

experimental xio              no

Default xvid export            xvid4

A52 default decoder            yes



libavcodec

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headers                        -I/usr/local/include

libraries

build

version

statically linked



hardware support

----------------------------------------

v4l/v4l2                      yes

OSS                            no

bktr                          no

sunau                          no



optional package support

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IBP                            no

X11                            yes

libmpeg2                      yes

libpostproc                    no

freetype2                      yes

avifile                        no

lame                          yes

ogg                            yes

vorbis                        yes

theora                        yes

libdvdread                    yes

pvm3                          no

libdv                          yes

libquicktime                  yes

lzo                            yes

a52                            yes

libmpeg3                      no

libxml2                        yes

mjpegtools                    no



sdl                            yes

libfame                        no

imagemagick                    no

libjpeg                        yes

bsdav                          no

iconv                          yes



ERROR: requirement failed: cannot link against libavcodec

libavcodec can be found in the following packages:

  libavcodec  http://www.ffmpeg.org/



ERROR: option '--enable-libpostproc' failed: cannot compile libpostproc/postpro

libpostproc/postprocess.h can be found in the following packages:

  libpostproc  http://www.ffmpeg.org/



ERROR: option '--enable-libpostproc' failed: cannot link against libpostproc

libpostproc can be found in the following packages:

  libpostproc  http://www.ffmpeg.org/



Please see the INSTALL file in the top directory of the

transcode sources for more information about building

transcode with this configure script.

Edit to Add: I forgot that after the transcode slackbuild failed, I'd rebuilt ffmpeg from a recent subversion snapshot and left it installed that way. So to confirm my complaint, I uninstalled that version, reinstalled the package ffmpeg-20081214-i686-1sl.tgz and tried again. The outcome was essentially the same. (Sorry for the complication, that's what happens when you're installing stuff manually.)

All of the referenced files are part of ffmpeg. I am not software guru with respect to understanding the nuances of software, but I would consider rebuilding and reinstalling ffmpeg. I used the build script from www.slackbuilds.org.

Note: there is a small bug with building ffmpeg. The bug is being remedied in the slackbuild script but is not yet uploaded. The ffmpeg configure file is hard-coded to look for a TEMPDIR variable. If you use /tmp as your temporary working directory then run the build script like this: TEMPDIR=/tmp sh ffmpeg.SlackBuild.

Of course, then try again to build transcode.

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Originally Posted by Woodsman (Post 3390899)

I slackbuilt ffmpeg with that workaround and reinstalled it. The transcode slackbuild then completed without error.

What's clear to me now is that the packages called out in the writeup all need to be built with compatible options. Mixing multimedia packages from different sources runs the risk of incompatible build options. If I did it all over again, I'd just get all the packages from slackbuilds.org and not try to mix in packages from other sources.

Thanks again.