On Sun, 11 Feb 2018 12:31:30 -0800
Tomas Kuchta <[email protected]> dijo:
>Regarding you Snap container not playing .avi. - This is equivalent to
>not having compiled VLC with .avi support.
It also wouldn't play .mkv files. And .avi and .mkv are the two most
popular formats for movies and other videos. What were they thinking?
>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 installed it because I use VLC for several hours every day, so
getting the latest and greatest (3.0) was very enticing. However, I
later checked out what the new version does that 2.2.6 does not and it
turns out that it enables Chromecast (which I have no use for), and it
changes the icons and moves them around so I can't find them. Bah. I
have gone back to 2.2.6 and I will stay there.
As for snap, it is quite possibly the wave of the future, but
definitely not yet ready for prime time. Here is a web page explaining
it in more detail:
https://itsfoss.com/use-snap-packages-ubuntu-16-04/
And yes, there is apparently already an Ubuntu snap repository,
although it has only a few packages so far, Interestingly, one of them
is the core, even on my laptop with 14.04.5:
$ snap list
Name Version Rev Developer Notes
core 16-2.30 3887 canonical core
For those curious about snap I recommend reading the above itsfoss.com
web site. Even I understood it. :)
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