unmerge 708137 671407 reassign 671407 mediathekview thanks On second thoughts...
Le dimanche 19 mai 2013 00:36:54, Benjamin Drung a écrit : > > Some solutions might be, to try MPlayer before VLC by default or just > > recommend the package `vlc` and demote `mplayer` and `mplayer2` as > > suggests(?), so mediathekview works out of the box. > > I came to different solution suggestions: > > 1) Mediathekview should show a proper error message instead of "garbage" > in the terminal. The user should see "main decoder error: VLC does not > support the audio or video format "h264". Unfortunately there is no way > for you to fix this." error message from VLC. > 2) VLC should be better integrated into the system and know that the > h264 decoder is in the "vlc" package. Then VLC should tell the users to > install "vlc" when they try to play a h264 video. That would involve a lot of effort -and Debian-specific at that- to solve a fake problem. The avcodec plugin should be in vlc-nox anyway. Debian created the vlc-nox package for headless server VLC use cases, basically. Users for that package should be sufficiently sophisticated to know what they are installing. > 3) The h264 video decoder should be moved back to vlc-nox (bug #671407). Of course. Except that will not work. VLC will then show the video in ASCII art because X11 plugins will still be missing (hence unmerging the bugs). The real problem is a mismatch between the Debian packaging of mediathekview, and the actual code of mediathekview. mediathekview should not assume that VLC "works" on the sole basis of the base /usr/bin/vlc being executable. So switch mediathekview over to /usr/bin/qvlc (or check that the 'vlc' package is installed). -- Rémi Denis-Courmont http://www.remlab.net/ _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers
