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nGerrit

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From: Aachen [GER]

Registered: 2006-09-27

Posts: 36

vlc 0.8.6

Hi,
i am waiting for an update to vlc 0.8.6 It was released several weeks ago, but still there is no sign of it in either testing or unstable.

just wondering

nGerrit

tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: vlc 0.8.6

It's flagged out-of-date, which means the maintainer is aware of its status. This time of year is a holiday for many people, and things tend to slow down in many areas - Arch is no exception.

Have you tried building it for yourself? It is often just a matter of changing the version number in the current PKGBUILD.

gradgrind

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From: Germany

Registered: 2005-10-06

Posts: 921

Re: vlc 0.8.6

It's not quite so simple unfortunately. It requires faad2-svn (which then means ffmpeg must be recompiled against that). This might have knock-on effects.

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test1000

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Registered: 2005-04-03

Posts: 834

Re: vlc 0.8.6

It's flagged out-of-date, which means the maintainer is aware of its status

does that function actually work? i seem to remember that it didn't work for a while..?

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tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: vlc 0.8.6

Yes, it works.

gradgrind

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From: Germany

Registered: 2005-10-06

Posts: 921

Re: vlc 0.8.6

Err, I got the revision system for faad wrong, it's cvs, not svn - it's in AUR. If you install that and then rebuild ffmpeg (it works, I've tried it), you can then build vlc. That also works (I've tried that too). There is also a vlc-svn in AUR, which you could try - there is no mention of a recompiled ffmpeg there, though. I don't know how necessary that is, I only know that I had to do it to get vlc working properly.

You can also get ready built faad2 and ffmpeg packages from ftp://ftp.dotsrc.org/projects/archie/larch/dev3A (faad2-cvs and ffmpeg-gp), but do check on other things that depend on them for incompatibilities, I have only used them in systems where this was no problem. And don't take the vlc from that directory, it's very stripped down - no gui.

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Snowman

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From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

Re: vlc 0.8.6

It's not quite so simple unfortunately. It requires faad2-svn (which then means ffmpeg must be recompiled against that). This might have knock-on effects.

I could be wrong but that could be the reason why vlc hasn't been updated yet. Packages in extra can't depend on cvs/svn stuff. Maybe the dev is waiting for the next stable release of faad2.