On Sat, Aug 06, 2016 at 11:27:14PM +0200, Tim Tassonis wrote: > Hi all > > Just a minor observation/suggestion: > > I have installed and used the latest vlc-2.2.4 with the suggested patches > and noticed that vlc reported many errors on mkv files that played perfectly > fine with mpv. Also, it seemed to almost always fail to show the subtitles > on mkv. I then compiled and installed libebml and libmatroska and recompiled > vlc with support for libmatroska and all those problems were gone. > > My suggestion therefore would be to move libmatroska/libebml from optional > to recommended dependencies, as it seems to drastically improve the vlc > expierience. > > However, I am still using the 2.8.5 version of ffmpeg and therefore did not > apply the ffmpeg3 patch. Could be be that upgrading to ffmpeg3 will also > solve the mkv problems. > Hi Tim,
I assume you are using vlc from a term, otherwise you would not see those error messages ? I've never used subtitles, but I have a number of medium-quality files which I packaged as mkv : ignoring subtitles, are you getting apparent problems playing your mkv files ? Actually, if any of my availables files do have subtitles, I've no idea how to9 access those in vlc : any pointers ? At this moment I haven't started my new builds with current LFS/BLFS so I'm still on vlc-git and ffmpeg-3.0 on my newest build. I expect to start a build soon, but it will be on an older machine where the newest system is from June 2015 (/me is shocked I've let it get so old) and I have to go through a lot of texlive stuff (even a binary build :-( ) and then libreoffice before it gets near to vlc. The problem with recommending extra packages is that we have to add them to the book. Perhaps a comment like 'improves the display of subtitles' for the libmatroska dep in vlc might suffice ? Also, what is 'mpv' ? It sounds like it might be an abbreviation for MPlayer ? ĸen -- `I shall take my mountains', said Lu-Tze. `The climate will be good for them.' -- Small Gods -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
