removing debian-multimedia from sources.list
Hi everybody, I had a problem reading 1 iso file with vlc(it works with all others) libdvdnav: DVD disk reports itself with Region mask 0x00f5. Regions: 2 4 libdvdnav: ifoOpenVTSI failed I then went to the videolan forum, and found there an instruction to remove the debian-multimedia from the sources.list. Here is an extract of the thread: = A significant number of VLC users on Debian and Ubuntu appear to be hit by bugs in the unofficial so-called Debian Multimedia repository (debian-multimedia.org). This unofficial package repository is well known to introduce incompatibilities in the FFMPEG libraries. This causes VLC media player and possibly some other multimedia software to stop working, as the FFMPEG binary interface is silently broken. The VideoLAN project strongly advises that you do not use the Debian Multimedia repository under any circumstances. Before you report problems with VLC on Debian or Ubuntu, make sure you have not installed any package from that repository. = Before reporting this problem, I followed exactly the instructions. The net result was that: 1/ the problem with vlc remains 2/ I loose k9copy, which seems to be available only from debian-multimedia, and also a lot of useful packages, like transcode, dvd-slideshow,... Has anybody followed these curious recommandations? -- Pierre Frenkiel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/alpine.deb.2.00.1103241754180.11...@pfr2.frenkiel-hure.net
Re: removing debian-multimedia from sources.list
24/03/2011 18:06, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: Hi everybody, I had a problem reading 1 iso file with vlc(it works with all others) libdvdnav: DVD disk reports itself with Region mask 0x00f5. Regions: 2 4 libdvdnav: ifoOpenVTSI failed I then went to the videolan forum, and found there an instruction to remove the debian-multimedia from the sources.list. Here is an extract of the thread: = A significant number of VLC users on Debian and Ubuntu appear to be hit by bugs in the unofficial so-called Debian Multimedia repository (debian-multimedia.org). This unofficial package repository is well known to introduce incompatibilities in the FFMPEG libraries. This causes VLC media player and possibly some other multimedia software to stop working, as the FFMPEG binary interface is silently broken. The VideoLAN project strongly advises that you do not use the Debian Multimedia repository under any circumstances. Before you report problems with VLC on Debian or Ubuntu, make sure you have not installed any package from that repository. = Before reporting this problem, I followed exactly the instructions. The net result was that: 1/ the problem with vlc remains 2/ I loose k9copy, which seems to be available only from debian-multimedia, and also a lot of useful packages, like transcode, dvd-slideshow,... Has anybody followed these curious recommandations? Hi, the problem that probably triggered this recommendation is long gone, at the time there was an incompatibility between d-m libav* and Debian vlc if I recall correctly. I use d-m currently and have no problem with vlc which I use daily, as you noticed your problem seems to be somewhere else. I am not even sure there is a libdvdnav(4) or vlc package in d-m right now... Regarding d-m and Debian, of course you use external repositories at your own risks, but it's generally pretty safe with d-m, and its main maintainer is also a Debian developer. You could add d-m to sources.list but use a low pinning priority, and just pull what you want explicitly. However, this could trigger dependencies problems. When you have or suspect a problem with a d-m package the best way to ask for help is the d-m users list [1], which any d-m user should follow IMHO. [1] dmo-discuss...@debian-multimedia.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4d8b8041.7080...@googlemail.com
Re: removing debian-multimedia from sources.list
On Thu, 24 Mar 2011, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, the problem that probably triggered this recommendation is long gone, at the time there was an incompatibility between d-m libav* and Debian vlc if I recall correctly. they should say, in the videolan forum, that this recommandation is obsolete! I use d-m currently and have no problem with vlc which I use daily, as you noticed your problem seems to be somewhere else. I am not even sure there is a libdvdnav(4) or vlc package in d-m right now... I also used it up to now with no problem, but the one with vlc, which doesn't come from d-m. Regarding d-m and Debian, of course you use external repositories at your own risks, but it's generally pretty safe with d-m, and its main maintainer is also a Debian developer. You could add d-m to sources.list but use a low pinning priority, and just pull what you want explicitly. However, this could trigger dependencies problems. Actually, I think it's better to revert to my old sources.list, to avoid the dependancies problems I had when I used Pin-Priority When you have or suspect a problem with a d-m package the best way to ask for help is the d-m users list [1], which any d-m user should follow IMHO. [1] dmo-discuss...@debian-multimedia.org I was not aware of this list. Thank you for the information. -- Pierre Frenkiel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/alpine.deb.2.00.1103241840080.24...@pfr2.frenkiel-hure.net
