VLS

VLS (aka VideoLAN Server) is an outdated streaming solution. More information is available on http://www.videolan.org/vlc/streaming.html.

Unless you really know what you are doing, we advise that you use VLC instead as it is far more powerfull than VLS.

Known problems

VLS isn't compatible with GCC 4. You will thus need to use GCC 2.9, 3.3 or 3.4 to compile, or submit a patch to fix compilation problems on GCC 4.

Solutions

Mandrake Patch

Mandrake Linux supplies a patch for vls 0.5.6 that fixes compilation on gcc 3.4. The patch also works for gcc 4+ (Tested with 4.0.2 & 4.1.2). The patch file (vls-0.5.6-gcc34.patch from vls-0.5.6-5mdk.src.rpm):

--- ./src/core/library.cpp.tv	2004-06-30 18:58:00.527941222 +0200
+++ ./src/core/library.cpp	2004-06-30 18:58:45.777047645 +0200
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 *
 *******************************************************************************/
 
-
+#include <dlfcn.h>
 
 //------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 // Preamble
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@
 # ifdef RTLD_NOW
   m_hHandle = dlopen(m_strName.GetString(), RTLD_NOW);
 # else
-  m_hHandle = dlopen(m_strName.GetString(), DL_LAZY);
+  m_hHandle = dlopen(m_strName.GetString(), RTLD_LAZY);
 # endif
   if(m_hHandle == NULL)
   {
--- ./src/core/hashtable.h.tv	2004-06-30 18:53:44.712993043 +0200
+++ ./src/core/hashtable.h	2004-06-30 18:53:13.241614538 +0200
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@
 };
 
 
-class C_HashMethod<u32>
+template <> class C_HashMethod<u32>
 {
  public:
   inline C_HashMethod(u32 uiMaxHash);
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@
 };
 
 
-class C_HashMethod<u16>
+template <> class C_HashMethod<u16>
 {
  public:
   inline C_HashMethod(u32 uiMaxHash);
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@
 };
 
 
-class C_HashMethod<handle>
+template <> class C_HashMethod<handle>
 {
  public:
   inline C_HashMethod(u32 uiMaxHash);
--- ./src/core/stream.cpp.tv	2004-06-30 18:59:00.374759370 +0200
+++ ./src/core/stream.cpp	2004-06-30 19:01:02.921339327 +0200
@@ -317,6 +317,8 @@
 template <class IOStream>
  C_Stream<IOStream>& C_Stream<IOStream>::operator >> (C_Serializable& cObject)
 {
+  C_ClassDescription cObjectDescription = cObject.Reflect();
+  C_Serializer cSerializer(&cObject, cObjectDescription);
   try
   {
     u32 iByteCount = cSerializer.NextBytesCount();
@@ -324,11 +326,12 @@
     {
       const byte aBytes[iByteCount];
       u32 iOffset = 0;
+	  int iRc;
 
       // Read the data to deserialize on the stream
       do
       {
-        int iRc = m_pIOStream->Read(aBytes+iOffset, iByteCount-iOffset);
+        iRc = m_pIOStream->Read(aBytes+iOffset, iByteCount-iOffset);
         ASSERT(iRc >= 0 || iRc == FILE_EOF);
         iOffset += iRc;
       }

libdvbpsi

Use libdvbpsi3-0.1.4. Later versions have incompatible API changes.

Dependency Errors

This error indicates that Makefile.dep and Makefile.module.dep need to have some spare newlines removed. See this forum thread for details: http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=30869

root@jan:/usr/src/vls/vls-0.5.6# make
dep/core/application.dpp:1: *** missing separator. Stop.
make: *** [dep/core/application.dpp] Error 2