Bernard <bdebr...@free.fr> wrote: > On 18/04/2025 15:37, songbird wrote: > > <to...@tuxteam.de> wrote: > >> On Thu, Apr 17, 2025 at 04:32:26PM +0200, Bernard wrote: > >>> Hi to Everyone ! > >>> > >>> vlc 3.0.21 (Vetinari) – Debian 11 > >>> > >>> ⇒ vlc no longer reckognises nor plays mp4 files ; it now only > >>> plays their audio part : > >>> > >>> « Codec non pris en charge:VLC ne peut pas décoder le format > >>> « h264 » (H264 > >>> - MPEG-4 AVC (part 10)) » > >>> > >>> needless to say that it did work before ! > >>> > >>> If calling a .ts file with VLC…, I get no error message… but it > >>> only plays the audio part, same as with mp4. > >> You /might/ be successful de-installing VLC and re-installing it, > >> in case this "ISPY" has broken something in your codec > >> installation. > > may also need to purge it. > As previously said, I already did de-install and purge vlc, then > re-install... in the end, the problem remained : same as before. I > also de-install and purge the ispy software... but I am not sure that > I did remove everything, since I don't know the names of packages ; I > just ran : sudo apt-get purge ispy*... It did seem to do some purge. > >> But this is a shot in the dark. > >> > >> What in earth is ISPY, anyway? Sounds kind of dangerous. > > > The ispy software is something well known, which is available for > Windows, Mac and Linux. It drives several well known "spy cameras", > that is, cameras that spy anything unusual in your garden when there > is no-one at home. If you google search "ispy", you get several pages > of answers.
Including some pretty awful reviews: https://www.reviews.io/company-reviews/store/ispy.com > Thanks for your replies. I will keep searching... > > >> > >> [...] > >> > >>> curl -s > >>> "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ispysoftware/agent-install-scripts/main > >>> > >>> v3/install.sh > >>> <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ispysoftware/agent-install-scripts/main>" > >>> | bash > >> *GAH* :-@ > >> > >> That means that you trust blindly those people. You know this can > >> do anything to your computer, right? > >> > >> Cheers > > same! :) > > > > > > songbird > > >
