caeng, the 'PPM' is the Puppy Package Manager, Click 'Install' on the desktop, or find it in the menu... Once in the PPM, click on the VLC package (in the multimedia category) to install it, then load it by going to Menu->Multimedia->VLC or by typing 'vlc' in the terminal.

Thank you very much for ...

It probably would help if you'd check the PPM before your rants.

I guess my posts are considered "rants", but I have no idea what PPM designates.

I have heard of RPM.

I successfully installed Slacko on a modern computer, excellent video resolution: 1920 x 1200 via hdmi.

Very impressive.

Alsa ...

Slacko is aimed at reasonably modern machines up to six or seven years old. It may run on even older hardware.

It is not to my favour, to encounter this, though, I confess, had I read it, I would not have wasted so much time, here, and downloading and so on...

Problem is that for every one ...

Had you tried editing xorg.conf and adding a line of your preferred resolution?
I seem to recall that I read that on the forum as a way to get the resolution you want when a lower resolution is being used by the xorgwizard and not showing the one you want.

Hi 8-bit.

Thanks, sure, it is not ...

Bite me!

No, I was the one bitten, here.

I did download Slacko, but, unfortunately, the ONE TRUE advantage of Puppy Linux, compared with all other distros, has disappeared with this version.

Alas, I cannot achieve 1280 x 1024, reduced to only 800 x 600.

This is in sharp contrast with the Puppy ...

Thank you, very much dark city.

I did not realize that this distro existed. Perhaps the name is a bit off-putting.

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?search_id=1208220432&t=69475

Yes, I am an enthusiastic supporter of the Debian "synaptic" program. Really works well, in my experience ...

What's wrong with MPlayer? Does it not work for you? What do you want with VLC specifically?

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/blog/caieng-308178/sharing-the-cpu-17682/

I have developed a test to compare various Linux distros with XP, and that test employs VLC. VlC is to all other ...

Great job everybody. Slacko ROCKS
Appreciate your comment, Dave.

"ROCKS", unfortunately, for me, conveys no useful information.

What would be helpful, at least for me, as a prospective user of Slacko, is a simple, two line description of WHY Slacko is superior to either:

a. Puppy Wary (newest ...

I see a couple of people interested in VLC media player. billtoo has compiled a version of the latest 1.1.10 for lucid 5.2.5. He has also built one for Slacko Puppy. One or the other of those might work in other puppies.

I avoid Ubuntu, like the plague, and accordingly, I also avoid "Lucid ...

Hi John,

Many thanks, again, for your excellent work here. Installation was smooth, and uncomplicated.

Neither Opera nor Konqueror work with VLC, however.

VLC is installed, it is right on the desktop, but, when I seek to invoke it, by clicking on the aac+, OGG, or mp3 icons here:
http://www ...

Thank you John, now downloading, will report back....

CAI ENG

Before downloading, may I inquire whether or not VLC will work with this distro?
Since it does not appear to be included with the download, how do we go about installing it, if it can be used?

Am I correct in understanding Lobster's post, that Opera 11 works as browser for this "legacy" OS?

On ...

After downloading the two files, linked to by ttuuxxx, the icon for the speaker, representing volume, was disabled, with a large x appearing through the speaker. I succeeded in removing this lock, by running a program called alsa sound wizard, located in the main menu, lower left corner. However, I ...

Thank you ttuuxxx, I downloaded and installed per your well written instructions.

Good, so next, I suppose, is to test it:

voila!
puff!

OOPS.

still no response. I know that VLC has been acknowledged by the OS because the icon is visible on clicking on menu. Ditto for reboot. No luck....

I am ...

Thank you for this message, ttuuxxx.
Some things are a bit clearer, now.

size does mater, Here a prime example, during the 5.2 build the iso went over 136MB threshold and that lead to, puppy no longer running 100% in ram. I am lost. Why is there a 136 MB threshold? What happens at 137 MB? What is ...

hi caieng a little history lesson :)
VLCGTK is frontend to vlc, around 6 yrs ago vlc had a gtk gui but was discarded for a wxgtk gui, which blewup the overall size by 200%.
Then they dropped the wxgtk gui for a qt gui which triples the size of the VLC package Due to all the library not found in a ...

I just tested all the links I posted with puppy 5.2 and all are working 100% with
vlc gtk 2.2 http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?mode=attach&id=35571
and http://ppm.scottjarvis.com/multimedia/video/vlc_nogui/vlc_nogui-0.8.6h.pet combined
ttuuxxx
Thank you ttuuxxx, does this mean that ...

This thread is intimidating, at least to me.

I installed Wary 5.0, without problem.

Then, the adventure began, two hours later, still no success, hence this message.

yes, I am annoyed.

Yes, I do not think that a distro as SLICK, and obviously EXCELLENT, as is Wary 5.0, should present these kinds ...

Thank you very much, Drongo, Dave, and Stu.
Much appreciated.
Very good information.
I will follow up, later this weekend.

Nice work!!!

regards,
CAI ENG

drongo wrote: You need to click on the install icon at the top of the screen.

Thank you, drongo.

Which screen would that be?

Thanks for your reply, and for affirming the paucity of applications in the software repository.....

regards,
CAI ENG