On Sun, 30 Nov 2025 07:12:44 -0500 Michael Soulier <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2025-11-28 1:55 p.m., Michael Soulier wrote: > > Yeah I found ffplay and totem did a pretty good job. Mind you I'm > > using vlc as an rtsp server as well. I hope that doesn't break. > > I'll need to find a new one. > > So out of curiosity, I wanted to try rebuilding the vlc-bin package, > but I'm finding this confusing. > > $ sudo apt-get source vlc-bin > Reading package lists... Done > Picking 'vlc-dmo' as source package instead of 'vlc-bin' > E: Unable to find a source package for vlc-dmo > > What should I do here? Looks to me that you have no choice but to use deb-multimedia, as my vlc components in sid are all called 1:3.0.22+really3.0.22~rc2-dmo1. I believe most multimedia packages depend on non-free components, which is why deb-multimedia exists. -- Joe
