Re: Video problems with VLC
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Matteo Riva <muradin@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Angus Hedger <demidevil@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> I was indeed using debian multimedia repository, but purging VLC and
> reinstalling after removing the multimedia repository from sources.list
> made no difference :S
>
> Any particular step I missed?
>
> - removed debian multimedia from /etc/apt/sources.list
> - # aptitude purge vlc
> - # aptitude update
> - # aptitude install vlc
>
> Thanks again
Hey,
I would try aptitude clean to make sure its not reinstalling from the
newer but broken libs from dm.
Apart from that, I dont have a clue, I think the problem was
libavcodec52 or libavformat52 as one of them was upgraded about the
same time vlc broke for me.
Regards,
Angus
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