Le Fri 20 Aug 10 à 20:37 -0400, Dave Witbrodt a écrit : > Then I noticed that vlc was still remembering the old "recent files" > playlist from stuff I had played on version 1.0.6. But if I had blown > away the config files, how was it remembering? So, maybe there are > other config files, right? > > A quick > > find -name '*vlc*' > > in $HOME found a directory called '.config/vlc'. Moving that out of the > way restored video. All the video formats I have files to test have > worked, so everything was actually just fine all along. > > Scanning for tips about this in > > /usr/share/doc/vlc/{changelog,NEWS,README}* > > revealed no direct statement that configs were incompatible between > versions 1.0* and 1.1*. What baffles me is: how could they be > incompatible, since they moved? Maybe vlc looks in both places now? > Does it get confused if it finds old configs and tries to use them?
The change actually happened between 0.9.x and 1.0.x . But config files shouldn't create problem like that. Do you happen to still have the old config file ? I'd be interrested by having it ( or a diff -u with the new config file) > Can we please have something about this in the vlc man pages and/or > /usr/share/doc/vlc? I have a feeling a lot of Debian vlc users are > going to get burned by it. I'll add a note in the debugging tip presented when you launch reportbug. Bruno, Could you try to remove/move away ~/.config/vlc/ -- Xtophe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org