Black overlay covering whole screen if VLC is not installed

[GauravButola]

If VLC is not already installed, then ptDetail directive crashes, due to which screen is covered with a black overlay making the app unusable from the start.

An error pops up in the console:
libvlc.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

This issue goes away upon installing VLC which effectively makes liblvlc.so available.

[hadim]

Well ptDetail is related to webchimera and for now this module is broken and not working. In the future it is planned for butter to use this https://github.com/BoLaMN/wcjs-angular (which is largely based on the webchimera inside this repo).

If you want to hack on the player, please talk to @BoLaMN.

[BoLaMN]

OS X or nix @GauravButola ?

[GauravButola]

@BoLaMN Ubuntu 15.04.

[sinas06]

Same issue overhere, but i have VLC installed. Using Windows 10.

[BoLaMN]

My only thoughts are the wcjs-prebuilt module isn't detecting correctly, might be time to switch over to my grunt-wcjs version I made here https://github.com/bolamn/grunt-wcjs example grunt config here https://github.com/BoLaMN/wcjs-angular-example/blob/master/Gruntfile.coffee would take extra work to modify electron-livereload as well to handle the location of the deps

[hadim]

I also notive the overlay with packaged applications (using grunt package).

[conductingchaos]

this is what I'm seeing upon executing 'grunt start' from Git CMD or Git Bash. I just updated to the most recent version of VLC. Windows 8.1 x64. How do I access the console or log to provide better feedback?

[conductingchaos]

never mind I opened ' ./scripts/menus/win32.coffee ' with Visual Studio and found the shortcut for enabling dev tools. Here's what I'm getting for errors:

I have a feeling that you're already aware of this, I'm going to try messing with it though. I haven't coded anything in Java since like 2006 and I've never written applications in Javascript. I saw there might be some python in here somewhere as well? So I'm not expecting to really be able to help much but I'm sick and bored so might as well do something.

[hadim]

It's not python but Coffee. Coffee is a language that is converted to javascript. So basically is JS but with a python syntax :-)

Anyway I will try to reproduce the error.

[hadim]

What version of node are you using (node --version) ?

[conductingchaos]

I installed node 4.2.1

[hadim]

@BoLaMN I don't understand why webchimera.html is included in the detail page of a movie since the movie can be played with an external player... so the internal player should be loaded later isnt it ?