.mkv files can't be played in vlc [Solved]

Primoz · 2010-05-19 10:45:22

Yesterday, I think, there was an upgrade of VLC and libmatroska. And today I noticed that VLC doesn't want to play .mkv files...
Trying to play them with cvlc or just normal vlc from command-line does give segmentation fault.
But I can't get anymore info than that...

Any idea why I can't play .mkv files anymore?

EDIT: By the way, mkv files can be played in mplayer... Which makes this even more strange.

Last edited by Primoz (2010-05-19 17:56:23)

ido50 · 2010-05-19 12:39:25

I can confirm this happens to me too.

wonder · 2010-05-19 12:52:48

try recompiling vlc against new libmatroska

gueek · 2010-05-19 13:16:21

I had this bug too. Downgrading libebml solved the problem (from 0.8.0-1 to 0.7.8-2).
It really didn't seem to have any relation with vlc - or so I thought, after checking vlc's dependencies,
and those dependencies' dependencies. Then I tried to solve the problem solely based on pacman's
cache dir entries timestamps, and it worked .
Don't forget to put libebml in pacman's ignore list. At least until some fix is released

Last edited by gueek (2010-05-19 13:17:05)

Surgat_ · 2010-05-19 14:12:10

gueek wrote:

I had this bug too. Downgrading libebml solved the problem (from 0.8.0-1 to 0.7.8-2).
It really didn't seem to have any relation with vlc - or so I thought, after checking vlc's dependencies,
and those dependencies' dependencies. Then I tried to solve the problem solely based on pacman's
cache dir entries timestamps, and it worked .
Don't forget to put libebml in pacman's ignore list. At least until some fix is released

libebml is indeed a dependency of libmatroska, which is also a dependency of vlc, so it is related. Is this a bug in libebml itself or in arch's package? I don't have any .mkv around

wonder · 2010-05-19 14:25:23

http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/19527

Primoz · 2010-05-19 17:55:49

So I can more or less mark this as solved. I haven't downgraded the libebml, but given there were two who did that and it worked for them, plus a bug report say that I can safely mark this as solved!

Thanks!

sDoky · 2010-05-22 10:01:54

I think you did brilliant job finding the problem gueek. I think the problem is most users can't find it here, I would suggest adding this into FAQ on arch wiki or something like that, just place better to find than this.

wonder · 2010-05-22 10:32:19

sDoky wrote:

I think the problem is most users can't find it here, I would suggest adding this into FAQ on arch wiki or something like that, just place better to find than this.

why? the bug was fixed

sDoky · 2010-05-22 10:53:10

yeah, but I think it is so vital it should be put out to a more visible place... just my opinion. that's all

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#1 2010-05-19 10:45:22

.mkv files can't be played in vlc [Solved]

#2 2010-05-19 12:39:25

Re: .mkv files can't be played in vlc [Solved]

#3 2010-05-19 12:52:48

Re: .mkv files can't be played in vlc [Solved]

#4 2010-05-19 13:16:21

Re: .mkv files can't be played in vlc [Solved]

#5 2010-05-19 14:12:10

Re: .mkv files can't be played in vlc [Solved]

#6 2010-05-19 14:25:23

Re: .mkv files can't be played in vlc [Solved]

#7 2010-05-19 17:55:49

Re: .mkv files can't be played in vlc [Solved]

#8 2010-05-22 10:01:54

Re: .mkv files can't be played in vlc [Solved]

#9 2010-05-22 10:32:19

Re: .mkv files can't be played in vlc [Solved]

#10 2010-05-22 10:53:10

Re: .mkv files can't be played in vlc [Solved]

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