Re: VLC player doesn't playback correctly
Hi,
27/11/2010 13:16, Matthias Andersson wrote:
> On 11/27/2010 09:18 AM, Joel Roth wrote:
>> aptitude search ~S~i\(~mmarillat\!~Odebian\)
>
>
> Ok, I removed all packages that came up with that search;
>
> debian-multimedia-keyring
> libdvdcss2
^^^^^^
Maybe you shot yourself in the foot here, it's needed to read a
commercial dvd...
> libfaac0
> libmp3lame0
> libx264-104
> livxvidcore4
> mplayer
>
>
> At first glance that doesn't seem to have solved the issue...
>
> //Matthias
>
>
I use vlc pretty heavily together with debian-multimedia, it is true
that there were incompatibilities at some point (and it may happen again
in the future) , well documented on debian-multimedia website, but I
don't experience any such breakage right now with vlc. To my (very
limited) knowledge two programs where broken with d-m ffmpeg related
packages but Christian Marillat is hosting working versions until the
debian ones are fixed/compatible (Audacity, already fixed in Debian
experimental and blender). debian-multimedia also has several very nice
packages like lives, avidemux, k9copy, handbrake, xcfa, libdvdcss2 and
an uncrippled version of ffmpeg (I read one is coming soon to Debian
proper), cinelerra, mythtv, xbmc just to name a few. So before throwing
the stone could be good to actually investigate the problem a bit
further, maybe contact Christian Marillat (debian-multimedia maintainer)
about the problem to see if it's known to him (with proper
logs/debugging info in hands would be nice), he is usually very helpful
despite the strange attitude of several people in Debian towards
debian-multimedia.
[mild rant mode]
Sure it would be awesome to work only with Debian proper, but due to
dfsg and probably other legal concerns several packages will never be
part of the distribution, or only limited versions. d-m is pretty much
playing the same role that rpm-fusion is playing for Fedora or medibuntu
for ubuntu, and in both cases those external repositories are essential
to work with multimedia when you can't have total control over the files
you are working on. Sure you can do without, and recompile from sources
what you need with the proper flags/codecs, but what good it is compared
to getting it from an apt repository, where versions are upgraded
regularly ?[/mild rant mode]
Regarding your specific problem with sftp I'll try it tomorrow (it's
late in my time zone) with/out d-m and see if I can get it to work. But
given this (pretty old) feature request on vlc bugtracker it may still
be a work in progress. http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/131
Apologies for the long and verbose message, I am fed up to see the nice
work Mr Marillat is doing and which I rely on trashed. Now you can
unleash hell on me if you care enough to waste your time.
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