vlc in Debian Testing

[Thomas Milne]

On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 4:56 PM, William O'Higgins Witteman
<william.ohiggins-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 04:31:28PM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
>>On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 03:56:30PM -0500, William O'Higgins Witteman wrote:
>>> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>>>  vlc-nox : Depends: libavcodec52 (>= 4:0.5.1-1) but it is not going to
>>>            be installed or
>>>                     libavcodec-extra-52 (>= 4:0.5.1-1) but it is not
>>>                     installable
>>>            Depends: libavformat52 (>= 4:0.5.1-1) but it is not going to
>>>                     be installed or
>>>                     libavformat-extra-52 (>= 4:0.5.1-1) but it is not
>>>                     installable
>>> E: Broken packages
>>>
>>> Further down the rabbit hole is this:
>>>
>>> # apt-show-versions libavcodec52
>>> libavcodec52/unknown uptodate 5:0.6.1+svn20101128-0.2
>>>
>>> It is a funny little situation.  Normally, as I wrote, these are easily
>>> unwedged, but perhaps not today.  I'll bump to unstable if I want to
>>> watch anything tonight.
>>
>>Yeah you might have to.
>>
>>apt-get install libavcodec52 libavformat52 libavformat-extra-52 doesn't
>>work either?
>
> Package libavformat-extra-52 is not available, but is referred to by
> another package.
> This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
> is only available from another source
>
> So, good question, but no.  It looks like they are rearranging the
> package and its dependencies, but they aren't done yet.

VLC is great, not disputing that, but while that's getting sorted
(instead of doing a wholesale upgrade to unstable), what's so bad
about MPlayer? I use mplayer-nogui, and I've never met a video it
didn't like. Also it always gets the resolution correct, which is
something I can't say for every other player :-\

Nice keyboard shortcuts too, subtitle support, audio/video sync is
easy to play with. Only thing that bugs me is that it refuses to
include a default icon...weird and irritating.

For what it's worth, I also was having many problems with VLC on my
Testing system, but since I am not as dedicated to it I didn't pursue
a solution.

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