A minor media player question

[divide0]

I use VLC as my default media player (I don't like Amarok). However, every time I try to click on another file to play, if I don't close the first player, another one will open WHILE the other one is playing, and I will have two music files playing at the same time. I was wondering...if there was a way to stop this, or do I have to make a playlist or something? Even on Windows, I never was a fan of playlists, so I tend to only want to click and play...

[Rog131]

Re: A minor media player question

Hmm - maybe it this what you are looking ? > One instance of VLC Player,possible?

That option should be available in ver. 0.9, maybe with hardy? You could compile 0.9 from source or install a .deb from nightly builds but they are flaky at best - tried both for the hell of it (the 1 running instance worked), but went back to 0.8.6 for stability

and

The Windows build has the option to force 1 instance, 0.8.6c Linux doesn't.

bash script solution

This is possible using a shell script.
(BETTER SCRIPT BELOW, READ MY NEXT POST. If in doubt, use the one below)...

Note #1
VLC media player nightly builds has a warning:

WARNING: The nightly builds are UNSTABLE and may not work at all.
There is absolutely NO SUPPORT for it from the VideoLAN Team.

and

For Ubuntu Intrepid

Note #2
PPA repositories also have VLC > Show PPAs matching: vlc
! User discretion advised !

[divide0]

Re: A minor media player question

Once again, Adept does not provide the newest VLC player. I have downloaded it, but I cannot get the application to build. The "make" command does nothing, although I am in the correct folder.

...and according to the VLC website, 0.9 isn't even out yet, I don't think. Is the version not stable yet? If it isn't stable, I might just have to get used to closing and opening until it comes out (Or...make a playlist...).

[Nate]

Re: A minor media player question

As for building, did you run ./configure first before trying make?

[divide0]

Re: A minor media player question

I forgot to mention about that. I did run it, and this happens:

checking mad.h usability... no
checking mad.h presence... no
checking for mad.h... no
configure: error: Could not find libmad on your system: you may get it from http://www.underbit.com/products/mad/. Alternatively you can use --disable-mad to disable the mad plugin.
wil@XVM-297:~/Downloads/vlc-0.9.0$ make
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.
wil@XVM-297:~/Downloads/vlc-0.9.0$

According to this, I'm missing something...I'll try the link given...

[kjjjjshab]

Re: A minor media player question

...and according to the VLC website, 0.9 isn't even out yet, I don't think. Is the version not stable yet? If it isn't stable, I might just have to get used to closing and opening until it comes out (Or...make a playlist...).

http://nightlies.videolan.org/build/hardy-i386/arch

Been running 0.9.0- for a while now...

Edit: Oops... just notice that Rog131 had posted the link... and mine is dead... hmmmmm. I originally downloaded it because it was supposed to play AVCHD... but that never worked for me.

[Nate]

Re: A minor media player question

Usually if ./configure gives some sort of error then the makefile won't be created. Unfortunately, it can take some time tracking down the dependencies that the configure script spits out at you.