I installed svp just fine, nothing weird happened. I run it with vlc and it's not working. Here is the svp log.
18:54:22.689 [i]: Main: starting up SVP 4 Linux [4.3.0.165]...
18:54:22.690 [i]: Main: args: none
18:54:22.690 [i]: Main: working dir is /home/nhtr/SVP 4/
18:54:22.691 [i]: Main: data dir set to /home/nhtr/.local/share/SVP4/
18:54:22.691 [i]: Settings: loading reg.cfg OK
18:54:22.691 [i]: Settings: loading main.cfg OK
18:54:22.692 [i]: Settings: loading ui.cfg OK
18:54:22.692 [i]: Settings: loading frc.cfg OK
18:54:22.692 [i]: Settings: loading profiles.cfg OK
18:54:22.693 [i]: Settings: loading custom.cfg OK
18:54:22.693 [i]: Settings: loading lights.cfg OK
18:54:22.693 [i]: Main: using Qt 5.12.2 (x86_64-little_endian-lp64 shared (dynamic) release build; by GCC 8.3.0)
18:54:22.693 [i]: Main: device scale is 1, user defined scale is 1
18:54:22.694 [i]: Main: system locale is [en]
18:54:22.694 [i]: Main: preferred language is [en-us]
18:54:22.696 [i]: Main: setting language file to en.qm...
18:54:22.698 [i]: Main: module 'plugins/libsvpflow1_vs64.so': 4.3.0.156
18:54:22.698 [i]: Main: module 'plugins/libsvpflow2_vs64.so': 4.3.0.165
18:54:22.699 [i]: Main: VLC filter (64 bit): 0.9.0.155
18:54:22.699 [i]: Main: running OpenCL info...
18:54:22.704 [i]: Main: collecting system information...
18:54:22.708 [i]: OS: Linux 5.0.0-20-generic #21-Ubuntu SMP Mon Jun 24 09:32:09 UTC 2019 x86_64
18:54:22.721 [i]: Desktop environment: / ubuntu / ubuntu:gnome
18:54:22.739 [i]: CPU: Intel Core i5-6500 [base frequency 3382 MHz, 4 threads]
18:54:22.740 [i]: Video: reading OpenCL info...
18:54:22.744 [i]: Video: 0 GPU OpenCL device(s) on Intel Gen OCL Driver [OpenCL 2.0 beignet 1.3] (Intel)
18:54:22.746 [i]: Memory: 7935 MB total, 6111 MB free
18:54:22.746 [i]: System: finding network settings...
18:54:22.763 [i]: Screens: updating information, 1 screen(s) found
18:54:22.763 [i]: Screens: screen 0 (HDMI-A-1) - 1920x1080 @69.000 Hz, x1.0 [92 DPI]
18:54:22.763 [i]: Screens: primary screen is 0
18:54:22.786 [i]: Main: preparing video profiles...
18:54:22.825 [i]: Main: preparing performance graphs...
18:54:22.868 [i]: Main: preparing mpv...
18:54:22.877 [i]: VLC: installed Vapoursynth plugin: 0.9.0.155
18:54:22.878 [i]: Main: preparing remote control...
18:54:22.878 [i]: RemoteControl: started
18:54:22.879 [i]: Main: preparing main menu...
18:54:22.896 [i]: Main: loading extensions...
18:54:22.947 [i]: Main: initialization completed in 244 ms
18:54:22.982 [i]: Updates: checking now...
18:54:25.714 [i]: Performance: quick estimation = 668 (previous value was 659)
18:54:37.557 [i]: VideoPlayer: VLC connected, waiting for the video info...
18:54:37.567 [E]: VLC: unsupported color format, switch to software video decoder
18:54:37.567 [E]: VLC: unsupported color format, switch to software video decoder
18:54:37.587 [E]: VLC: unsupported color format, switch to software video decoder
18:54:37.587 [E]: VLC: unsupported color format, switch to software video decoder
18:54:37.688 [E]: VLC: unsupported color format, switch to software video decoder
18:54:37.749 [E]: VLC: unsupported color format, switch to software video decoder
18:54:37.780 [E]: VLC: unsupported color format, switch to software video decoder
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