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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?
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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.
Matt
"It is very difficult to educate the educated."
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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?
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# pacman -S extra/vlc
... read the wiki
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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.
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# 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
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Comment out testing in pacman.conf.
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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
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No, pacman aftre Syu will upgrade extra package ffmpeg by the testing one. :-(
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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...
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--ignore <pkg> ignore a package upgrade (can be used more than once)
*shakes fist at above poster*
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