Re: Video problems with VLC

[AG <computing.account@googlemail.com>]

On 17/06/10 13:52, 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.
>
> Regards,
>
> Angus.
>
>
>    
Angus

Thanks for the idea.  I followed your suggestions and purged the DM 
version of VLC, commented out the DM repo in sources.list and 
reinstalled from the main Debian repo.

Now VLC is back to its reliable working ways again.

Cheers

AG