Re: Video problems with VLC

2010-06-17 Thread Matteo Riva
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 3:24 AM, Felipe Sateler wrote: > apt-cache policy libavcodec52 > > Note the version that is in the debian repositories, and then: > > aptitude install > libav{codec52,device52,filter0,format52,util49,postproc51}= you just found out> ffmpeg=version This was not really enou

Re: Video problems with VLC

2010-06-17 Thread Felipe Sateler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 17/06/10 12:30, Matteo Riva wrote: > I found this bug report[1] but I'm not sure on how to proceed in order > to apply that solution. I can remove vlc with no problems, but if I try > removing libavutil50 I have a chain of dependencies complainin

Re: Video problems with VLC

2010-06-17 Thread Matteo Riva
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 7:26 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 06/17/2010 11:30 AM, Matteo Riva wrote: >> >> I found this bug report[1] but I'm not sure on how to proceed in order >> to apply that solution.  I can remove vlc with no problems, but if I try >> removing libavutil50 I have a chain of depend

Re: Video problems with VLC

2010-06-17 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/17/2010 11:30 AM, Matteo Riva wrote: I found this bug report[1] but I'm not sure on how to proceed in order to apply that solution. I can remove vlc with no problems, but if I try removing libavutil50 I have a chain of dependencies complaining: Remove the following packages: 1)

Re: Video problems with VLC

2010-06-17 Thread Matteo Riva
This is the error I get in console: swScaler: pal8 is not supported as output pixel format [0xa0d7c30] swscale scale error: could not init SwScaler and/or allocate memory -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact list

Re: Video problems with VLC

2010-06-17 Thread AG
On 17/06/10 13:52, Angus Hedger wrote: On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Matteo Riva wrote: I have a problem playing AVI divx files with VLC. Yesterday upon start VLC showed an error message complaining about divx codecs and refused to proceed. Today the player starts but the video is squi

Re: Video problems with VLC

2010-06-17 Thread Matteo Riva
I found this bug report[1] but I'm not sure on how to proceed in order to apply that solution. I can remove vlc with no problems, but if I try removing libavutil50 I have a chain of dependencies complaining: Remove the following packages: 1) ffmpeg 2) gnome 3) gstreamer0.10-f

Re: Video problems with VLC

2010-06-17 Thread Angus Hedger
> Is vlc really in d-m?  It's in my sources.list ('apt-cache policy' > demonstrates it), but vlc only seems to be in "Debian". > > m...@haggis:~$ apt-cache policy vlc > vlc: >  Installed: 1.0.6-1 >  Candidate: 1.0.6-1 >  Version table: >  *** 1.0.6-1 0 >        500 http://mirrors.kernel.org sid/ma

Re: Video problems with VLC

2010-06-17 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/17/2010 07:52 AM, Angus Hedger wrote: On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Matteo Riva wrote: I have a problem playing AVI divx files with VLC. Yesterday upon start VLC showed an error message complaining about divx codecs and refused to proceed. Today the player starts but the video is squ

Re: Video problems with VLC

2010-06-17 Thread Angus Hedger
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Matteo Riva wrote: > On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Angus Hedger wrote: > >> Hey, >> >> Do you use the debian multimedia repo? >> >> Because I had the same problem with VLC myself yesterday, the only >> thing I could do to fix it was to disable the dm repo, purg

Re: Video problems with VLC

2010-06-17 Thread Matteo Riva
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Angus Hedger wrote: > Hey, > > Do you use the debian multimedia repo? > > Because I had the same problem with VLC myself yesterday, the only > thing I could do to fix it was to disable the dm repo, purge vlc, and > reinstall from just debian main. I was indeed us

Re: Video problems with VLC

2010-06-17 Thread Angus Hedger
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Matteo Riva wrote: > I have a problem playing AVI divx files with VLC.  Yesterday upon start > VLC showed an error message complaining about divx codecs and refused to > proceed.  Today the player starts but the video is squished horizontally > (it occupies roughly

Video problems with VLC

2010-06-17 Thread Matteo Riva
I have a problem playing AVI divx files with VLC. Yesterday upon start VLC showed an error message complaining about divx codecs and refused to proceed. Today the player starts but the video is squished horizontally (it occupies roughly 1/4th of the VLC window which is for the other part black).