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Re: Problem with VLC H 264 after having installed ISPY package



Bernard <bdebreil@free.fr> wrote:
> On 18/04/2025 15:37, songbird wrote:
> > <tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:  
> >> On Thu, Apr 17, 2025 at 04:32:26PM +0200, Bernard wrote:  
> >>> Hi to Everyone !
> >>>
> >>> vlc 3.0.21 (Vetinari) – Debian 11
> >>>
> >>> ⇒ vlc no longer reckognises nor plays mp4 files ; it now only
> >>> plays their audio part :
> >>>
> >>> « Codec non pris en charge:VLC ne peut pas décoder le format
> >>> « h264 » (H264
> >>> - MPEG-4 AVC (part 10)) »
> >>>
> >>> needless to say that it did work before !
> >>>
> >>> If calling a .ts file with VLC…, I get no error message… but it
> >>> only plays the audio part, same as with mp4.  
> >> You /might/ be successful de-installing VLC and re-installing it,
> >> in case this "ISPY" has broken something in your codec
> >> installation.  
> >    may also need to purge it.  
> As previously said, I already did de-install and purge vlc, then 
> re-install... in the end, the problem remained : same as before. I
> also de-install and purge the ispy software... but I am not sure that
> I did remove everything, since I don't know the names of packages ; I
> just ran : sudo apt-get purge ispy*... It did seem to do some purge.
> >> But this is a shot in the dark.
> >>
> >> What in earth is ISPY, anyway? Sounds kind of dangerous.  
> 
> 
> The ispy software is something well known, which is available for 
> Windows, Mac and Linux. It drives several well known "spy cameras",
> that is, cameras that spy anything unusual in your garden when there
> is no-one at home. If you google search "ispy", you get several pages
> of answers.

Including some pretty awful reviews:
https://www.reviews.io/company-reviews/store/ispy.com

> Thanks for your replies. I will keep searching...
> 
> >>
> >> [...]
> >>  
> >>> curl -s
> >>> "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ispysoftware/agent-install-scripts/main
> >>>
> >>> v3/install.sh
> >>> <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ispysoftware/agent-install-scripts/main>"
> >>> | bash  
> >> *GAH* :-@
> >>
> >> That means that you trust blindly those people. You know this can
> >> do anything to your computer, right?
> >>
> >> Cheers  
> >    same!  :)
> >
> >
> >    songbird
> >  
> 


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