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rexcze

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Registered: 2007-05-12

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VLC video problem

Hi there,

I have some strange (for me) problems with VLC. When I want to play some video (avi for example), VLC opens, plays sound(s) but no video window appear. I dont know what si bad.
Do anyone know?

mrunion

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From: Jonesborough, TN

Registered: 2007-01-26

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Re: VLC video problem

I believe is has something to do with ffmpeg.  If you are using ffmpeg from TESTING I believe VLC won't work.  It has something to do with swscaler or some option in ffmpeg.

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rexcze

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Registered: 2007-05-12

Posts: 54

Re: VLC video problem

Oh, THANKS a LOT! Yes downgrading this package from testing to extra repo helped. But do anyone know how to force pacman to download this package only from extra (I dont know if it is from extra) repository?

low

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Registered: 2007-07-04

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Re: VLC video problem

# pacman -S extra/vlc

... read the wiki

skottish

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Registered: 2006-06-16

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Re: VLC video problem

I believe is has something to do with ffmpeg.  If you are using ffmpeg from TESTING I believe VLC won't work.  It has something to do with swscaler or some option in ffmpeg.

Yes, it's swscaler in FFmpeg. The VLC people are not going to fix this in the 8.6.x branch. It's already fixed in the 9.0 branch, but there are still lots of problems there.

rexcze

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Registered: 2007-05-12

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Re: VLC video problem

# pacman -S extra/vlc

... read the wiki

That is not an answer. After pacman -Syu it will be replaced by version from testing so I need it to be "underlined" in the "extra" version

skottish

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Re: VLC video problem

Comment out testing in pacman.conf.

FizDev

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From: Canada

Registered: 2007-06-29

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Re: VLC video problem

After pacman -Syu it will be replaced by version from testing so I need it to be "underlined" in the "extra" version

Actually, I think that for pacman, the versions from [testing] are a "low priority". What I mean by that is that it won't use a version from the testing repository unless specifically told so (pacman -Sy testing/foo)... So doing a pacman -Syu won't replace the version from extra with the one from testing

rexcze

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Registered: 2007-05-12

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Re: VLC video problem

No, pacman aftre Syu will upgrade extra package ffmpeg by the testing one. :-(

bangkok_manouel

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Registered: 2005-02-07

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Re: VLC video problem

you can use the IgnorePkg option in /etc/pacman.conf or move the lines related to the testing repo at the end of /etc/pacman.conf. In that case, you have to explicitly tell pacman what you want to install from testing. i think the IgnorePkg is the best way, especially since pacman will still inform you that there's a new version so you can keep track of your ignored packages...

spookshow

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From: abbotsford, bc

Registered: 2006-11-15

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Re: VLC video problem

--ignore <pkg>   ignore a package upgrade (can be used more than once)

*shakes fist at above poster*

Last edited by spookshow (2007-11-17 15:37:41)