Re: VLC not showing video

[Bernd Kloss <b_kloss@web.de>]

Am Samstag, 30. Mai 2009 schrieb Florian Kulzer:
> On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 11:41:42 -0400, mathengejr AT aim DOT com wrote:
> > How do i get video to work on vlc. I noticed this since I reconfigure
> > kernel.
>
> I do not think that your new kernel is responsible for your problem.
> Nevertheless, it cannot hurt to (re)test vlc with the standard Debian
> Lenny kernel for your architecture.
>
> > Running from terminal I see xvid has issues
> >
> > wakariera@debian:~$ vlc
> > VLC media player 0.8.6h Janus
> > [00000304] main decoder error: no suitable decoder module for fourcc
> > `XVID'.
> > VLC probably does not support this sound or video format.
>
> [...]
>
> > vlc -vvv --no-plugins-cache --list |grep ffmpeg gives me
> >
> > VLC media player 0.8.6h Janus
> > [00000001] main private debug: checking builtin modules
> > [00000001] main private debug: checking plugin modules
> > [00000001] main private debug: recursively browsing `/usr/lib/vlc'
> > [00000001] main private warning: cannot load module
> > `/usr/lib/vlc/codec/libffmpeg_plugin.so'
> > (/usr/lib/vlc/codec/libffmpeg_plugin.so: undefined symbol: img_resample)
>
> img_resample should be defined in /usr/lib/libavcodec.so.51.50.0 (from
> the libavcodec51 package). Please post the output of this command:
>
> ldd /usr/lib/vlc/codec/libffmpeg_plugin.so | grep avcodec
>
> [...]
>
> > I have only recently recompiled
> > kernel trying to get ipw2100 working.
>
> The ipw2100 should work with your standard Debian kernel, provided you
> have "firmware-ipw2x00" installed. (This package is in "non-free".)
>
> --
> Regards,            | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer
>           Florian   |

We also had problems using the latest version of VLC. After downgrading to the 
previous version, it is working fine.
libavcodec51:
install: 0.svn20080206-16
remove 3:20080706-0.3
Same for
libavformat52
libavutil49
libpostproc51

Regards 
Bernd