Regarding you Snap container not playing .avi. - This is equivalent to not having compiled VLC with .avi support.
There is nothing you can do, short of compiling it yourself and creating own .snap or .deb I'd wait to Ubuntu guy to make standard .deb that should fix it. Alternatively, check if Ubuntu has snap repo - you could install both versions - Ubuntu and VLC, or more of them and use each one to play the stuff which works in each .snap version. Welcome to the world of Snap packages - more freedom for the creator projects to not to work with distributions, more freedom for the users to install any .snap they can find anywhere - almost as great as Windows. Welcome back to the dependency hell - this time though, it should not break the system. I bet that this is not quite what the .snap was intended to solve. -T On Feb 10, 2018 8:27 PM, "John Jason Jordan" <[email protected]> wrote: On Sat, 10 Feb 2018 18:46:14 -0800 Nat Taylor <[email protected]> dijo: >snap includes all the dependencies in the .snap, I believe. Like an >app on osx I don't know about that. My experience this evening leads me to question what is included. I started at 5:30 playing PBS news from the HDHomeRun tuner on VLC 3.0. That worked fine. When it was over I closed down the tuner and VLC. Then I selected a movie .avi file to play. I double clicked on the .avi file and nothing happened. Then I launched VLC and tried to open the .avi file by Media > Open File, but it didn't see the .avi file. I set it to 'All Files' and then it finally saw the .avi file, but it wouldn't open it. No error message, it just wouldn't open it. Finally I gave up on the .avi file and tried a .mkv file. Same results. At that point I did: snap remove vlc sudo apt-get install vlc Afterward double-clicking on the .avi file opens it in VLC. That is, VLC 2.2.6 (Umbrella). I don't know what's wrong with 3.0, but it's not ready for prime time. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
