Vlc 2...

In the meantime you could download the source from the official VLC site and see if you can compile it. If it takes a lot of tinkering you're probably better off waiting for the FreeBSD port to be updated, but who knows. Maybe it'll compile nicely. Never hurts to try.

Fonz
 
Doesn't detect Lua installation. Configuring without Lua goes fine, but build fails after a while, with Qt's moc spitting out syntax error.

It should be easily portable, however I don't have time and/or need to do so.
 
Also net/liveMedia needs to be updated before it can be used in VLC 2. I have a patch to upgrade to 2.0.1, but it removes liveMedia and I don't know whether that is a deal-breaker for some...
 
What works:

Downloading/unpacking source code:
Bootstrapping via
Code: 
./bootstrap
Configuring with
Code: 
./configure --disable-lua --enable-oss --enable-glx --enable-freetype
Compiling with
Code: 
./compile

However, once you try running the resulting bin/vlc, it quits immediately with the following error:

Code: 
main libvlc error: No plugins found! Check your VLC installation

Running with the -v option shows that it's looking at the right location but complains about the "entry point"

Code: 
... snip ...
[0x802036198] main libvlc warning: cannot find plug-in entry point in /usr/local/lib/vlc/plugins/mux/libmux_ts_plugin.so
[0x802036198] main libvlc warning: cannot find plug-in entry point in /usr/local/lib/vlc/plugins/mux/libmux_ps_plugin.so
[0x802036198] main libvlc warning: cannot find plug-in entry point in /usr/local/lib/vlc/plugins/mux/libmux_ogg_plugin.so
[0x802036198] main libvlc warning: cannot find plug-in entry point in /usr/local/lib/vlc/plugins/mux/libmux_dummy_plugin.so
[0x802036198] main libvlc warning: cannot find plug-in entry point in /usr/local/lib/vlc/plugins/mux/libmux_avi_plugin.so
[0x802036198] main libvlc warning: cannot find plug-in entry point in /usr/local/lib/vlc/plugins/mux/libmux_mp4_plugin.so
[0x802036198] main libvlc warning: cannot find plug-in entry point in /usr/local/lib/vlc/plugins/mux/libmux_asf_plugin.so
[0x802036198] main libvlc warning: cannot find plug-in entry point in /usr/local/lib/vlc/plugins/mux/libmux_wav_plugin.so
[0x802036198] main libvlc warning: cannot find plug-in entry point in /usr/local/lib/vlc/plugins/mux/libmux_mpjpeg_plugin.so
... snip ...

A braver man than I might want to look at how VLC 2.0 imports plugins as opposed to VLC 1.1.13 or something along those lines, but it looks as though I'm going to stick with the older version for now.
 
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