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Re: VLC 1.1.13 problems anyone?

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Hi/2.

John Small wrote:
> On Sat, 31 Dec 2011 11:45:31 UTC, KO Myung-Hun <komh@chollian.net> 
> wrote:
> 
>> Hi/2.
>>
>> Dariusz Piatkowski wrote:
>>> Hi KO!
>>>
>>> On Mon, 26 Dec 2011 13:14:32 UTC, KO Myung-Hun <komh@chollian.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi/2.
>>>>
>>>> Dariusz Piatkowski wrote:
>>>>> The latest version of the OS/2 VLC player just got released...I downloaded 
>>>>> 1.1.13, was previously using 1.1.11.
>>>>>
>>>>> Here is the strange situation I'm seeing, I have the VLC frame running in a 
>>>>> separate window then the video playback. With 1.1.13 the video window frame 
>>>>> shows up fine and plays back fine, however the actual VLC window frame (where 
>>>>> all program controls exist) is nowhere to be found. 
>>>>
>>>> Do you mean you didn't check 'Preferences/Interface/Look and fee/Embed
>>>> video in interface' ?
>>>
>>>
>>> Actually, with this release, it appears that the previous INI file was either 
>>> not-detected, or ignored. I had always set the 'Embed video in interface' to OFF
>>> (meaning, no check mark there), so yes, the answer to your question is : YES, I 
>>> did not have it checked. 
>>>
>>> But...as Peter Brown posted in another response, including gcc446.dll all of a 
>>> sudden makes VLC work just fine. This is how I discovered that the INI file I 
>>> had previously used was no longer being honoured and that setting I mentioned 
>>> above was now actually CHECKED...
>>>
>>> 12-16-11   4:01a    131447         124  gcc446.dll
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Ok. I misunderstood your statement.
>>
>> When I read your statement at first, I think you can see VLC gui window,
>> then it disappears after a play-back window is created.
>>
>> But, now I can understand your statement correctly. You cannot see VLC
>> gui at all. If you tell me how to launch VLC, I could ask a more proper
>> question to you.
>>
>> How did you launch VLC ? D&D on PM, on command line, or any other methods ?
>>
>>>> I'm sorry I cannot reproduce this problem at all.
>>>>
>>>> But I want to confirm that this is a problem of a multi-core system. How
>>>> about disabling other cores except 1 core ?
>>>
>>> OK, shutting OFF the 3 of the 4 cores (using SETPROC utility) and renaming 
>>> gcc446.dll to something else (thus making it inaccessible to the process) causes
>>> the remaining single core to MAX out, running at 100% utilization. The video 
>>> still plays, but if I chose to close the window the VLC program itself continues
>>> to run, still maximizing the core at 100% utilization. I then kill the process, 
>>> which does end it.
>>>
>>> Now, as I mentioned above, Peter suggested adding gcc446.dll, sure enough, that 
>>> allowed VLC to function correctly on my system again, with a single or multiple 
>>> cores enabled. 
>>>
>>> OK, so here is what I noticed: the HELP=>About screen shows the following : 
>>> '...Compiler: gcc version 4.4.6 (GCC)...', so it certainly appears to me that 
>>> gcc446.dll is a requirement to run 1.1.13 successfully, and as best as I could 
>>> tell this was not listed in the README...so maybe just a missing piece of info, 
>>> no biggie really.
>>>
>>
>> Yes, you are right. But gcc446.dll should not be a requirement. Because
>> I linked the executable of VLC and all the DLLs including plugins
>> against a static lib of gcc446.dll.
> 
> FWIW, VLX 1.1.13 would not run for me until I installed gcc446.dll.
> 
> 

What I meant is my intention was that gcc446.dll should not be a
requirement of VLC v1.1.13.


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KO Myung-Hun

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