Re: Video problems with VLC

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 06/17/2010 07:52 AM, Angus Hedger wrote:
> 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.

Is vlc really in d-m?  It's in my sources.list ('apt-cache policy' 
demonstrates it), but vlc only seems to be in "Debian".

me@haggis:~$ apt-cache policy vlc
vlc:
  Installed: 1.0.6-1
  Candidate: 1.0.6-1
  Version table:
 *** 1.0.6-1 0
        500 http://mirrors.kernel.org sid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

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