videolan-client GUI errors

[wwp]

Hello Rolf Gerrits,


On Sun, 08 Jan 2006 15:44:48 +0100 Rolf Gerrits <rm.gerrits at quicknet.nl> wrote:

> wwp wrote:
> 
> >Hello all,
> >
> >
> >I've installed videolan-client 0.8.4 from Dag's repository. I can't find a
> >way to access the preferences dialog as well as the default GUI (not
> >skinned), right-clicking on the skinned mainwindow, I get:
> >
> >[00000274] main dialogs provider error: no dialogs provider module matched "any"
> >[00000271] skins2 interface error: No suitable dialogs provider found (hint: compile the wxWidgets plugin, and make sure it is loaded properly)
> >
> >I've noticed that this rpm only provides libskins2_plugin.so in /usr/lib/vlc,
> >whereas the vlc 0.8.2 rpm from livna also ships libncurses_plugin.so and
> >libwxwindows_plugin.so (and has dependency to wxGTK2). If vlc 0.8.2 from
> >livna is installed, I'm able to get the appropriate prefs GUI.
> >
> >Did I do something wrong w/ the 0.8.4 version from Dag? Can anyone access the
> >prefs dialog w/ that version?
> >
> >Nota: I cannot use vlc version <= 0.8.2, since it doesn't support properly
> >rtsp fluxes from my DSL provider's TV URLs (free.fr).
> >
> >
> >Regards,
> >
> >  
> >
> wwp,
> 
> It seems that videolan 0.8.4 needs wxGTK 2.6.2....  I installed from 
> FreshRPMS and this works fine !
> DAG has wxGTK 2.4.... That did not work for me either ...

Well.. You're probably running FC4, 'cause freshrpms has wxGTK 2.6 packages
for FC4, and wxGTK 2.4 packages for FC3. Unfortunately, the freshrpm's
videolan-client is 0.8.1 and I need 0.8.3 or more.. so I'm still stuck w/ the
same problem here :-).


Regards,

-- 
wwp