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Re: Video problems with VLC



On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Matteo Riva <muradin@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a problem playing AVI divx files with VLC.  Yesterday upon start
> VLC showed an error message complaining about divx codecs and refused to
> proceed.  Today the player starts but the video is squished horizontally
> (it occupies roughly 1/4th of the VLC window which is for the other part
> black).
<snip>
> How can I fix VLC's problem?
>
> Thanks.

Hey,

Do you use the debian multimedia repo?

Because I had the same problem with VLC myself yesterday, the only
thing I could do to fix it was to disable the dm repo, purge vlc, and
reinstall from just debian main.

Regards,

Angus.


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