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From: Matteo Riva on 17 Jun 2010 08:40 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). I'm on an updated testing system, and before yesterday VLC was playing fine. In the meantime - after a recent dist-upgrade - I cannot run X with proprietary ATI drivers anymore, I have to use the FOSS radeonhd ones instead. I don't know if that's related but I thought it could be worth mentioning (and by the way if anyone has suggestions about this problem too, that'd be very much appreciated). How can I fix VLC's problem? Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/AANLkTilNeHFLEyfBGzWcyb070JfHh2twd0dVz_nIvCeO(a)mail.gmail.com
From: Angus Hedger on 17 Jun 2010 09:00 On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Matteo Riva <muradin(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I have a problem playing AVI divx files with VLC. Â Yesterday upon start > VLC showed an error message complaining about divx codecs and refused to > proceed. Â 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. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/AANLkTinwkbNOPRVFO9YeL7S7SArOe_5jnxgngWHNhhYr(a)mail.gmail.com
From: Matteo Riva on 17 Jun 2010 09:10 On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Angus Hedger <demidevil(a)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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/AANLkTilLW_i2WxQrflAT61pjgAOJ4LhLZMUwz3ewr9_9(a)mail.gmail.com
From: Angus Hedger on 17 Jun 2010 09:30 On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Matteo Riva <muradin(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Angus Hedger <demidevil(a)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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/AANLkTikA91z0olNKg6E8tnsBdSyg21rskI1aRy1xTb09(a)mail.gmail.com
From: Ron Johnson on 17 Jun 2010 12:20
On 06/17/2010 07:52 AM, Angus Hedger wrote: > On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Matteo Riva<muradin(a)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(a)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 -- Seek truth from facts. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4C1A493D.80008(a)cox.net |