Phon can't see VLC

Wed Jun 22 13:01:59 UTC 2011

Hello again,

thank you for your support. I finally had time today to try and fight
the problem - I've tried VLC 1.1.8 64 and 32, and VLC 1.1.10 Intel 32,
reinstalled Phon and VLC several times, restarted repeatedly, and it
still doesn't work. With VLC 1.1.10 Intel 32 I saw a tiny ray of hope
when the message from Phon changed and said it failed to download VLC,
but also that it found the file but the file had wrong architecture
(although I admit I have no idea what that means.) Still, going back
to 1.1.8 32 didn't help. I have tried both my own videos and the demo
video.

So, for now I'm using audio files only and getting used to Phon, which
I'm liking a lot. But if you have any other suggestions for what I
could do to upload videos as well, please let me know!

Thanks,
-Marta

On Jun 18, 11:30 am, Greg Hedlund <greg.hedl... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> According to the VLC developers, this issue should have been fixed a few
> days ago.  From the VLC developer's forums:
>
> > The issue was traced back to an incorrect configuration in 1.1.10
> > builds available for the first 24 hours after publication. Please
> > delete your current installation and download VLC again from
> > videolan.org. This will also free 30 MB on your harddrive.
>
> That being said 1.1.9 does work without issue (tried and tested) - there
> should be no need to go back to 1.1.8.  Support for 10.5.8 for many
> applications will end soon I fear.  There are just too many changes
> between 10.6 and 10.5 now to effectively target both systems and with
> 10.7 coming out I suspect VLC 1.1.10 may be the last VLC which targets
> mac os 10.5.
>
> Cheers,
>
> -Greg
>
> On 11-06-18 05:45 AM, Yvan Rose wrote:
>
>
>
> > Dear Marta,
> > There seems to be a problem with that version of VLC, which Greg, my
> > chief programmer, is currently investigating. In the meantime, my
> > recommendation would be that you try with a previous version of VLC,
> > as follows:
>
> > 1) Download VLC 1.1.8, at:
>
> >http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/1.1.8/macosx/vlc-1.1.8-...
>
> > The link is buried deep, path on website is:
>
> > VLC Main Page ->
> > Other Systems and Versions (under download button) ->
> > Get VLC for Mac OS X ->
> > Download older versions of VLC media player ->
> > Older versions can be found by browsing out FTP archive
>
> > Which is at:
> >http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/
>
> > 2) Use the script application icon in the 1.1.8 "goodies" folder to
> > clear the VLC preferences, then deleted the whole thing, restarted,
> > and downloaded VLC 1.1.8 intel 64 by going in the through the directory.
>
> > ***Note: the same should hold true if you use VLC 1.1.9 (all the links
> > above can be modified with the 1.1.9 version), however, I have heard
> > of one person who had to backtrack to 1.1.8, hence my instructions
> > with this latter version above***
>
> > Things should work from there. If you could please confirm, one way or
> > another, it would be great. In the meantime, we will do anything
> > possible to get everything working smoothly using the latest version
> > of VLC.
>
> > With best regards,
> > Yvan
>
> > On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 10:43 PM, Marta Szreder <mar... at gmail.com
> > <mailto:mar... at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> >     Hello,
>
> >     encouraged by Yvan Roses's presentation of Phon at the ICPC conference
> >     in York yesterday, I have downloaded the program today (on my Mac OS X
> >     10.5.8.) During installation, I was instructed to also download VLC,
> >     which I did (v. 1.1.10). Unfortunately, whenever I try to run videos/
> >     sound files, Phon says: "Failed to load VLC. Please ensure that VLC is
> >     installed on your computer and is up-to-date. Reason: image not
> >     found." VLC itself, however, works just fine. At the same time, I'm
> >     not really sure the videos are actually uploaded to Phon because they
> >     do not appear anywhere ('number of records' shown in the project
> >     manager window is 0, but when I try to upload them again, it says that
> >     'file already exists'.)
>
> >     If you have any idea as to what is wrong/what I'm doing wrong, I would
> >     very much appreciate your help.
>
> >     Best wishes,
> >     -Marta
>
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