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VLC compiles correctly from ports, but the spanish interface (I don't know about the rest) gets sort of screwed up.
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== Installing VLC Media Player under FreeBSD ==
  
I got a [http://mexinetica.com/~lanjoe9/vlc/spanish/vlc.mo spanish vlc.mo] file from a previous installation that works correctly with the "20051102 Janus Snapshot".
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Make sure you have upto date Ports collection or Just CVSup your Ports:
I will check the other languages and place more links if necessary.
 
  
To use the vlc.mo file provided here, you need to download it and then (as root), move it to the following location:
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cd /usr/ports
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make update
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Once you have your ports collection up to date, proceed with the install:
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cd /usr/ports/multimedia/vlc
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make install clean
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If you would prefer to simply install the already-compiled binary package, with a common set of default compile-time settings, use the following command:
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pkg_add -r vlc
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== Spanish language support ==
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VLC compiles and installs correctly from ports, but it has been reported that the Spanish interface doesn't work properly. There is a Spanish language file [https://web.archive.org/web/20071018000700/http://mexinetica.com:80/~lanjoe9/vlc/spanish/vlc.mo here] from a previous installation that works correctly with the "20051102 Janus Snapshot".
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To use the vlc.mo file provided from the link above, you need to download it and then (as root), move it to the following location:
  
 
"/usr/X11R6/share/locale/{Your Language abbreviation here}/LC_MESSAGES/vlc.mo"
 
"/usr/X11R6/share/locale/{Your Language abbreviation here}/LC_MESSAGES/vlc.mo"
  
So in the case of the spanish locale file, I would use the following command
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So in the case of the spanish locale file, you would use the following command
  
mv /downloads/vlc.mo /usr/X11R6/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/vlc.mo
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mv /downloads/vlc.mo /usr/X11R6/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/vlc.mo
  
 
to overwrite the erroneous vlc.mo file.
 
to overwrite the erroneous vlc.mo file.
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Latest revision as of 08:00, 23 January 2019

Installing VLC Media Player under FreeBSD

Make sure you have upto date Ports collection or Just CVSup your Ports:

cd /usr/ports
make update

Once you have your ports collection up to date, proceed with the install:

cd /usr/ports/multimedia/vlc
make install clean

If you would prefer to simply install the already-compiled binary package, with a common set of default compile-time settings, use the following command:

pkg_add -r vlc

Spanish language support

VLC compiles and installs correctly from ports, but it has been reported that the Spanish interface doesn't work properly. There is a Spanish language file here from a previous installation that works correctly with the "20051102 Janus Snapshot".

To use the vlc.mo file provided from the link above, you need to download it and then (as root), move it to the following location:

"/usr/X11R6/share/locale/{Your Language abbreviation here}/LC_MESSAGES/vlc.mo"

So in the case of the spanish locale file, you would use the following command

mv /downloads/vlc.mo /usr/X11R6/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/vlc.mo

to overwrite the erroneous vlc.mo file.