Color me snap-skeptical. -- Russell Senior russ...@personaltelco.net
On Sun, Feb 11, 2018 at 12:31 PM, Tomas Kuchta <tomas.kuchta.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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" <joh...@gmx.com> wrote: > > On Sat, 10 Feb 2018 18:46:14 -0800 > Nat Taylor <biob...@gmail.com> 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 > PLUG@pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
