Compile VLC from source enabling with live555 RTSP streaming support

Hi folks, Our product is using VLC with RTSP support with live555 (http://www.live555.com/) - which was disabled in Debian because of licensing changes by live555. I want compile VLC with live555 RTSP streaming support, most of the tutorials or hints I found resulted-in to be outdated. I&#

Re: Compile VLC from source enabling with live555 RTSP streaming support

Jaikumar Sharma wrote: > Hi folks, > > Our product is using VLC with RTSP support with live555 > (http://www.live555.com/) - which was disabled in Debian because of licensing > changes by live555. > > I want compile VLC with live555 RTSP streaming support, most of the tu

Re: Problem with VLC H 264 after having installed ISPY package [SOLVED]

ts last update, which I did, successfully… > > unfortunately this did not change the faulty behaviour of vlc. > > > > Now that everything seems to work, I am in no rush to dist-upgrade to > > bookworm ; I will wait to the last moment, I mean, untilwe get warning that > > the

Re: Problem with VLC H 264 after having installed ISPY package [SOLVED]

On Tue, May 13, 2025 at 11:32:20AM +0200, Bernard wrote: > Hi to Everyone, > > This being done, I first thought that I could possibly succeed in just > upgrading my Buster system to its last update, which I did, successfully… > unfortunately this did not change the faulty b

Re: Problem with VLC H 264 after having installed ISPY package [SOLVED]

Hi to Everyone, Thanks to your help, especially that of David and Anssi, I have solved my problem. VLC now plays mp4 files as it did before, with only minor changes. To that end, I removed the files in /usr/local/lib, I removed libva-custom.conf. Then I ran ldconfig… and, right after this

Re: Problem with VLC H 264 after having installed ISPY package

ackages if > > > > that didn't happen when you reinstalled vlc, but it's perfectly > > > > possible that the Debian versions of the libraries are in place > > > > already: > > > > > > > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Dec 6

Re: Problem with VLC H 264 after having installed ISPY package

On 02/05/2025 02:34, David Wright wrote: On Thu 01 May 2025 at 20:04:56 (+0200), Bernard wrote: On 01/05/2025 06:10, David Wright wrote: I could suggest that you reinstall the library file packages if that didn't happen when you reinstalled vlc, but it's perfectly possible that

Re: Problem with VLC H 264 after having installed ISPY package

ot needed any more. - Remove that libva-custom.conf. - Run ldconfig. - See if vlc works? This trial is likely undoable. Good to have backups in any case.

Re: Problem with VLC H 264 after having installed ISPY package

On Thu 01 May 2025 at 20:04:56 (+0200), Bernard wrote: > On 01/05/2025 06:10, David Wright wrote: > > I could suggest that you reinstall the library file packages if > > that didn't happen when you reinstalled vlc, but it's perfectly > > possible that the Debian v

Re: Problem with VLC H 264 after having installed ISPY package

On 01/05/2025 06:10, David Wright wrote: I could suggest that you reinstall the library file packages if that didn't happen when you reinstalled vlc, but it's perfectly possible that the Debian versions of the libraries are in place already: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Dec 6

Re: Problem with VLC H 264 after having installed ISPY package

On Wed 30 Apr 2025 at 16:53:43 (+0200), Bernard wrote: > On 30/04/2025 01:34, David Wright wrote: > > And at that point, I would have looked again at ls -ult > > to see whether anything had changed. > > Well, running vlc at about the same time as reinstalling it > > m

Re: Problem with VLC H 264 after having installed ISPY package

On 30/04/2025 01:34, David Wright wrote: Bernard wrote: And at that point, I would have looked again at ls -ult to see whether anything had changed. Well, running vlc at about the same time as reinstalling it makes sure that any data you collect is as ambiguous as possible. So, I just

Re: Problem with VLC H 264 after having installed ISPY package

0:54 is… a few minutes ago And what was going on then? And during the evening before, when the other pair of symlinks were touched in some way. > Then, I made another attempt to run a mp4 video file using most recent > ‘vlc’, getting the usual displayed error message : > > Codec no

Re: Problem with VLC H 264 after having installed ISPY package

ot root 4096 21 avril 10:38 pkgconfig drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 21 avril 10:38 python3.9 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 979 10 avril 17:59 libva-drm.la -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 925 10 avril 17:59 libva.la 29 april 10:54 is… a few minutes ago Then, I made another attempt to run a mp4 video file using mos

Re: Problem with VLC H 264 after having installed ISPY package

On Tue, 22 Apr 2025 14:48:01 +0200 Bernard wrote: > On 21/04/2025 22:02, David Wright wrote: > > I think you should post your /etc/apt/sources.list here before > > taking further actions. > > Here it is, dated 22apr2023 : Date shows that I musn't have updated > it, even though I thought I had

Re: Problem with VLC H 264 after having installed ISPY package

On Tue 22 Apr 2025 at 14:48:01 (+0200), Bernard wrote: > On 21/04/2025 22:02, David Wright wrote: > > I think you should post your /etc/apt/sources.list here before > > taking further actions. > > Here it is, dated 22apr2023 : Date shows that I musn't have updated > it, even though I thought I had

Re: Problem with VLC H 264 after having installed ISPY package

On 21/04/2025 22:02, David Wright wrote: I think you should post your /etc/apt/sources.list here before taking further actions. Here it is, dated 22apr2023 : Date shows that I musn't have updated it, even though I thought I had # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 11.6.0 _Bullseye_ - Official amd

Re: Problem with VLC H 264 after having installed ISPY package

On Mon 21 Apr 2025 at 18:03:04 (+0200), Bernard wrote: > I did reply to your message, sending the output of suggested aptitude > search below... but my reply does not appear to the list messages, > maybe because there were too many lines in it. In any case, I didn't > find anything meaningfull to m

Re: Problem with VLC H 264 after having installed ISPY package

Hi David, I did reply to your message, sending the output of suggested aptitude search below... but my reply does not appear to the list messages, maybe because there were too many lines in it. In any case, I didn't find anything meaningfull to me... which doesn't mean that there was nothing..

Re: Problem with VLC H 264 after having installed ISPY package

On Mon, 21 Apr 2025 17:44:30 +0200 Bernard wrote: Hello Bernard, >One of these complainers got a reply, advising to install/re-install >libavcodec58… which seems to have solved his problem. I tested the same I had a similar problem with Pale Moon no longer playing videos. Re-installing libavc

Re: Problem with VLC H 264 after having installed ISPY package

shows that this ‘ispy’ or ‘agentDVR’ install... HAD TRIGGERED AN UNEXPECTED UPDATE of my system… ! (automatic updates were de-activated in my Debian 11) Now, googling the web, I found several posts from other debian 11 users who complained that their VLC ceased to play mp4 and other H264 files

Re: Problem with VLC H 264 after having installed ISPY package

On 19/04/2025 10:39, David wrote: On Sat, 19 Apr 2025 at 04:21, David Wright wrote: You could run a command like: $ aptitude search "?narrow(?installed,?not(?archive(stable)))" to see whether all the packages on your system originate in bookworm. If that command produces any output, th

Re: Problem with VLC H 264 after having installed ISPY package

On 19/04/2025 15:39, David wrote: On Sat, 19 Apr 2025 at 04:21, David Wright wrote: You could run a command like: $ aptitude search "?narrow(?installed,?not(?archive(stable)))" to see whether all the packages on your system originate in bookworm. Doesn't this pattern match "oldstable'? M

Re: Problem with VLC H 264 after having installed ISPY package

On Sat, 19 Apr 2025 at 04:21, David Wright wrote: > You could run a command like: > > $ aptitude search "?narrow(?installed,?not(?archive(stable)))" > > to see whether all the packages on your system originate in bookworm. If that command produces any output, then adding a custom format argume

Re: Problem with VLC H 264 after having installed ISPY package

On Thu 17 Apr 2025 at 16:32:26 (+0200), Bernard wrote: > 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

Re: Problem with VLC H 264 after having installed ISPY package

>> 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

Re: Problem with VLC H 264 after having installed ISPY package

Bernard wrote: > On 18/04/2025 15:37, songbird wrote: > > wrote: > >> On Thu, Apr 17, 2025 at 04:32:26PM +0200, Bernard wrote: > >>> Hi to Everyone ! > >>> > >>> vlc 3.0.21 (Vetinari) – Debian 11 > >>> > >>> ⇒

Problem with VLC H 264 after having installed ISPY package

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

Re: Problem with VLC H 264 after having installed ISPY package

On 18/04/2025 15:37, songbird wrote: 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

Re: Problem with VLC H 264 after having installed ISPY package

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 n

Re: Problem with VLC H 264 after having installed ISPY package

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

[SOLVED] Re: Debian 12 VLC leaves system sounds blocked

gt; >> id=1000 > >> XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/$id > >> > >> and no dice. I tried > >> XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1000 > >> and it worked. Thanks, It looks as if the only notation which works is direct specification of the uid. In my case XDG_RU

Re: List under surveillance? [WAS Re: Debian 12 VLC leaves system sounds blocked]

On 2025-01-24, Bret Busby wrote: >> >> I suspect it's coincidental / benign or a joke, given that it's a >> Microsoft-ism >> here. >> >> (Or maybe that's what they want you to think ;-) ) > > "We live in interesting times, where the only thing to fear, is the > government" > >:-< > > "Just bec

Re: Debian 12 VLC leaves system sounds blocked

On 25/01/2025 04:58, Roger Price wrote: That works for me too, but not in cron. Have you considered systemd.timer(5) in *user* session instead of cron job? It should alleviate issues with missed environment variables. There was a thread with discussion how to execute a process in user sessi

Re: List under surveillance? [WAS Re: Debian 12 VLC leaves system sounds blocked]

On 25/1/25 11:34, Will Mengarini wrote: On Sat, Jan 25, 2025 at 06:12:30AM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: In viewing the full header of the above message (to try to find which country or timezone, is the origin of the message sent to the mailing list, for an extraneous reason), I observed a weird thin

Re: List under surveillance? [WAS Re: Debian 12 VLC leaves system sounds blocked]

On Fri, Jan 24, 2025 at 09:12:38PM -0600, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > On Fri, Jan 24, 2025, 5:05 PM Bret Busby wrote: > > > On 25/1/25 06:31, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > I suspect it's coincidental / benign or a joke, given that it's a > > Microsoft-ism > > > here. > > > > >

Re: List under surveillance? [WAS Re: Debian 12 VLC leaves system sounds blocked]

On Sat, Jan 25, 2025 at 06:12:30AM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: >> In viewing the full header of the above message (to try to find >> which country or timezone, is the origin of the message sent >> to the mailing list, for an extraneous reason), I observed a >> weird thing, that makes me wonder whether

Re: List under surveillance? [WAS Re: Debian 12 VLC leaves system sounds blocked]

On Fri, Jan 24, 2025, 5:05 PM Bret Busby wrote: > On 25/1/25 06:31, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > > > > > > I suspect it's coincidental / benign or a joke, given that it's a > Microsoft-ism > > here. > > > > (Or maybe that's what they want you to think ;-) ) > > > > Ah, yes. > > "We live in inter

Re: Debian 12 VLC leaves system sounds blocked

gt; and >> id=1000 >> XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/$id >> >> and no dice. > > I suspect that in a personal crontab entry $(id -u) may not refer to the user > but maybe to root. Perhaps there is another way to get the user's uid. > >> I tried >> XDG_R

Re: List under surveillance? [WAS Re: Debian 12 VLC leaves system sounds blocked]

On 25/1/25 06:31, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: I suspect it's coincidental / benign or a joke, given that it's a Microsoft-ism here. (Or maybe that's what they want you to think ;-) ) Ah, yes. "We live in interesting times, where the only thing to fear, is the government" :-< "Just becau

Re: Debian 12 VLC leaves system sounds blocked

On Fri, Jan 24, 2025 at 17:36:54 -0500, e...@gmx.us wrote: > OK. My crontab has this: > > XDG_RUNTIME_DIR="/run/user/$(id -u)" > > # m h dom mon dow command > * * 24 1 * aplay /export/media/sounds/woow1.wav > > At the minute, no sound. I tried > id=$(id -u) > XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/us

Re: Debian 12 VLC leaves system sounds blocked

(id -u) may not refer to the user but maybe to root. Perhaps there is another way to get the user's uid. > I tried > XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1000 > and it worked. Maybe this cron doesn't do variables in assignments? Could you now run VLC for a short while and then rerun the personal crontab test with uid 1000 ?. Thanks, Roger

Re: List under surveillance? [WAS Re: Debian 12 VLC leaves system sounds blocked]

On Fri, 24 Jan 2025, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > I suspect it's coincidental / benign or a joke, given that it's a > Microsoft-ism > here. On Sat, 25 Jan 2025, Bret Busby wrote: > "X-Message-Flag Supplemental report sent to reaper.nsa.gov. rc=0" This comes from a customized-hdrs entry in my .pine

Re: Debian 12 VLC leaves system sounds blocked

On 1/24/25 16:58, Roger Price wrote: >> On Fri, Jan 24, 2025 at 13:52:00 -0500, e...@gmx.us wrote: >>> Maybe a difference in some software? I ran >>> eben@cerberus:~$ env - XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1000 /usr/bin/aplay >>> /export/media/sounds/woow1.wav >>> Playing WAVE '/export/media/sounds/woow1

List under surveillance? [WAS Re: Debian 12 VLC leaves system sounds blocked]

On Sat, Jan 25, 2025 at 06:12:30AM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > > In viewing the full header of the above message (to try to find which > country or timezone, is the origin of the message sent to the mailing list, > for an extraneous reason), I observed a weird thing, that makes me wonder > whether

Re: Debian 12 VLC leaves system sounds blocked

.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 9353EFF803 for ; Fri, 24 Jan 2025 21:58:09 + (UTC) Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2025 22:58:08 +0100 (CET) From: Roger Price To: debian-user Mailing List Subject: Re: Debian 12 VLC leaves system sounds blocked In-Reply-To: <20250124191708.gc29...@wooledge.org>

Re: Debian 12 VLC leaves system sounds blocked

On Fri, Jan 24, 2025 at 13:52:00 -0500, e...@gmx.us wrote: > Maybe a difference in some software? I ran > eben@cerberus:~$ env - XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1000 /usr/bin/aplay > /export/media/sounds/woow1.wav > Playing WAVE '/export/media/sounds/woow1.wav' : Unsigned 8 bit, Rate 11025 > Hz, Mono >

Re: Debian 12 VLC leaves system sounds blocked

On 25/1/25 05:58, Roger Price wrote: On Fri, Jan 24, 2025 at 13:52:00 -0500, e...@gmx.us wrote: Maybe a difference in some software? I ran eben@cerberus:~$ env - XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1000 /usr/bin/aplay /export/media/sounds/woow1.wav Playing WAVE '/export/media/sounds/woow1.wav' : Unsigned

Re: Debian 12 VLC leaves system sounds blocked

> On Fri, Jan 24, 2025 at 13:52:00 -0500, e...@gmx.us wrote: > > Maybe a difference in some software? I ran > > eben@cerberus:~$ env - XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1000 /usr/bin/aplay > > /export/media/sounds/woow1.wav > > Playing WAVE '/export/media/sounds/woow1.wav' : Unsigned 8 bit, Rate 11025 > >

Re: Debian 12 VLC leaves system sounds blocked

On 1/24/25 13:33, Roger Price wrote: > On Fri, 24 Jan 2025, e...@gmx.us wrote: > >> On 1/24/25 09:47, Greg Wooledge wrote: >> >>> 2) At least one of my environment variables is required: >>> >>> So then the question is *which* environment variable it is. I would >>> suspect it's one of the XDG_ va

Re: Debian 12 VLC leaves system sounds blocked

On Fri, 24 Jan 2025, e...@gmx.us wrote: > On 1/24/25 09:47, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > 2) At least one of my environment variables is required: > > > > So then the question is *which* environment variable it is. I would > > suspect it's one of the XDG_ variables, > > I did it the other way, by

Re: Debian 12 VLC leaves system sounds blocked

On 1/24/25 09:47, Greg Wooledge wrote: > 2) At least one of my environment variables is required: > > hobbit:~$ aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Side_Left.wav > Playing WAVE '/usr/share/sounds/alsa/Side_Left.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little > Endian, Rate 48000 Hz, Mono > hobbit:~$ env - aplay /usr/share/

Re: Debian 12 VLC leaves system sounds blocked

On Fri, Jan 24, 2025 at 15:37:56 +0100, Roger Price wrote: > I added export PULSE_RUNTIME_PATH="/run/user/$(id -u)/pulse" to bark.sh . > File /run/user/2108/pulse contains value 1309 and command > > rprice@maria ~ ps -ef | grep pulse > rprice 13091293 0 2024 ?05:45:10 /usr/bi

Re: Debian 12 VLC leaves system sounds blocked

On Fri, 24 Jan 2025, Dan Ritter wrote: > OK, PulseAudio takes over ALSA, and from then on, only sessions > with PA active can play sounds. That means that your shell can > do it, but your cron can't. > > Add this to your cron invocation or bark.sh. > > export PULSE_RUNTIME_PATH="/run/user/$(id -u

Re: Debian 12 VLC leaves system sounds blocked

ME_DIR=/run/user/2108 > > > Playing Sparc Audio '/mnt/home/rprice/bark/h5.au' : Mu-Law, Rate 8000 > > > Hz, Mono > > > > > > I hear the bark. > > > What is it using to play the .au file? OSS, ALSA, or something > > else? > >

Re: Debian 12 VLC leaves system sounds blocked

o '/mnt/home/rprice/bark/h5.au' : Mu-Law, Rate 8000 Hz, > > Mono > > > > I hear the bark. > What is it using to play the .au file? OSS, ALSA, or something > else? rprice@maria ~ aplay -v ~/bark/h5.au ALSA <-> PulseAudio PCM I/O Plugin > I would gues

Re: Debian 12 VLC leaves system sounds blocked

play the .au file? OSS, ALSA, or something else? I would guess that VLC is triggering the start of PulseAudio, and after that PA has disabled OSS. After VLC runs, does aplay work to play sounds? -dsr-

Re: Debian 12 VLC leaves system sounds blocked

On Fri, 24 Jan 2025, Roger Price wrote: > Is there some way of restoring system sound, short of rebooting ? I need to be more precise, It's the cron job which is blocked, manual operation still works correctly: rprice@maria ~ /usr/local/bin/bark.sh 5 bark.sh starts ... XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/u

Debian 12 VLC leaves system sounds blocked

Before running VLC I hear system sounds, e.g. a cron job has Biff barking each hour. If I then play a music mp4 with VLC, I hear the music, but when the music stops I no longer hear Biff. VLC inhibits system sounds, and leaves the inhibition in place. VLC -> Tools -> Preferences -&

Media newbie meets VLC was [Re: Audacious media player - help using GUI]

d was referred to audacious. Install and initial trial went well. Its man-page - terse! I'm looking for documentation for optimal use of the GUI. My initial problems revolved around pause/resume. You might want to take a look at VLC. Lots of docs: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ftsa&q=vlc+docume

Re: VLC not ejecting CD/DVDs

On Wed, 04 Jan 2023 09:34:38 +0100 "Thomas Schmitt" wrote: > > One of those four methods is via SCSI. When I specify that method, > > eject ejects the CD/DVD. > > charles@jhegaala:~$ eject -s /dev/sr0 > > Does > eject -r /dev/sr0 > work too ? Yes. charles@jhegaala:~$ eject -r /dev/sr0 ; ec

Re: VLC not ejecting CD/DVDs

On Tue 03 Jan 2023 at 21:22:00 (-0700), Charles Curley wrote: > VLC is not ejecting CD/DVDs when I run it as my regular user, charles. > I get the error message "qt interface error: could not eject /dev/sr0". > I have not tried it as root. eject, however, does work when run by t

Re: VLC not ejecting CD/DVDs

Hi, Charles Curley wrote: > If I read the source for VLC correctly, VLC uses a SCSI ioctl to attempt to > eject. > https://github.com/videolan/vlc/blob/master/modules/gui/eject.c Yes. EjectSCSI() in line 67 does what a burn program would do for ejecting an optical medium. But

VLC not ejecting CD/DVDs

VLC is not ejecting CD/DVDs when I run it as my regular user, charles. I get the error message "qt interface error: could not eject /dev/sr0". I have not tried it as root. eject, however, does work when run by the same user. root@jhegaala:/dev# ll cdrom cdrw sr0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root

Re: Bookworm: the latest Bookworm upgrade broke video playback in the vlc player?

Oct 28, 2022, 09:34 by brchu...@netscape.net: > Looking at the list of upgraded packages and the reported symptom, it is > probably something in the qt5 > upgrade from 5.15.4 -> 5.15.6, perhaps qtwayland5 or the libqt5multimedia5* > packages. > > It would also probably be helpful to report what

Re: Bookworm: the latest Bookworm upgrade broke video playback in the vlc player?

Oct 28, 2022, 04:42 by loca...@tutanota.com: > Hi, > > It looks like the latest Bookworm upgrade broke video playback in the vlc > player for me. Was working fine before. The video seems to be playing (the > progress marker is moving) but instead of the video output onl

Bookworm: the latest Bookworm upgrade broke video playback in the vlc player?

Hi, It looks like the latest Bookworm upgrade broke video playback in the vlc player for me. Was working fine before. The video seems to be playing (the progress marker is moving) but instead of the video output only a blank black rectangle is shown. The VLC video output is set to "X

Re: E: Package 'vlc' has no installation candidate ...

On Sun, 1 May 2022 15:35:27 +0200 wrote: > On Sun, May 01, 2022 at 10:19:25PM +1000, Charlie wrote: > > [...] > > > The hardware clock thought it was in 2005-01-01 > > Uh, oh. This looks as if your clock's battery is dying. > > Cheers Thank you Tomas, I thought that; will replace it. Than

Re: E: Package 'vlc' has no installation candidate ...

On Sun, May 01, 2022 at 10:19:25PM +1000, Charlie wrote: [...] > The hardware clock thought it was in 2005-01-01 Uh, oh. This looks as if your clock's battery is dying. Cheers -- t signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: E: Package 'vlc' has no installation candidate ...

On Sun, 1 May 2022 11:18:23 + "Andrew M.A. Cater" wrote: > On Sun, May 01, 2022 at 03:13:06PM +1000, Charlie wrote: > > > > > > > Thank you for that update. I will give your sources list a try because > > my new Asus desktop install won't accept the sources list from my > > working laptop

Re: E: Package 'vlc' has no installation candidate ...

On Sun, May 01, 2022 at 03:13:06PM +1000, Charlie wrote: > > > > Thank you for that update. I will give your sources list a try because > my new Asus desktop install won't accept the sources list from my > working laptop: > > deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bullseye main non-free contrib > >

Re: E: Package 'vlc' has no installation candidate ...

On Sat, 30 Apr 2022 16:45:01 -0500 Albretch Mueller wrote: > after editing it the unhashed line in my /etc/apt/sources.list are: > > deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security main > deb-src http://security.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security main > > deb http://

Re: E: Package 'vlc' has no installation candidate ...

On Sat, 30 Apr 2022 16:45:01 -0500 Albretch Mueller wrote: > and all seems to be fine and dandy. Good to hear. A bit of fine tuning: Unless you want the source for any package(s), comment out the deb-src lines. Comment in the deb-src lines only for packages that interest you. You have two sec

Re: E: Package 'vlc' has no installation candidate ...

after editing it the unhashed line in my /etc/apt/sources.list are: deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security main deb-src http://security.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security main deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bullseye-updates main deb-src http://deb.debian.or

Re: E: Package 'vlc' has no installation candidate ...

I had just installed Debian 11 onto a pen drive and as soon as I connected my computer to the Internet I started having such problems, which makes me wonder if the original installation disk was OK. lbrtchx

Re: E: Package 'vlc' has no installation candidate ...

On Fri, Apr 29, 2022 at 09:51:47PM -0500, Albretch Mueller wrote: > On 4/28/22, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > Run these commands for additional information: > > > > cat /etc/apt/sources.list > > apt policy vlc > > # date; cat /etc/apt/sources.list > Fri 29 Apr 202

Re: E: Package 'vlc' has no installation candidate ...

# apt-add-repository -bash: apt-add-repository: command not found #

Re: E: Package 'vlc' has no installation candidate ...

On 4/28/22, Greg Wooledge wrote: > Run these commands for additional information: > > cat /etc/apt/sources.list > apt policy vlc # date; cat /etc/apt/sources.list Fri 29 Apr 2022 09:44:06 PM CDT # deb cdrom:[Official Debian GNU/Linux Live 11.2.0 lxde 2021-12-18T12:41]/ bullseye main

Re: E: Package 'vlc' has no installation candidate ...

On Fri, 29 Apr 2022 05:23:57 +0100 (BST) Tim Woodall wrote: > > (And why do I have two signal repos???) > > > > Do you? Isn't it the Release file and then the Packages file that are > fetched? Presumably you're up to date on the others (except vivaldi) Actually, I don't. I misread the output.

Re: E: Package 'vlc' has no installation candidate ...

On Thu, 28 Apr 2022, Charles Curley wrote: On Thu, 28 Apr 2022 21:27:11 -0500 Albretch Mueller wrote: # time apt-get update Hit:1 http://security.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security InRelease Reading package lists... Done Odd. I would think you would show a few more repos. I see:

Re: E: Package 'vlc' has no installation candidate ...

On Thu, 28 Apr 2022 21:27:11 -0500 Albretch Mueller wrote: > # time apt-get update > Hit:1 http://security.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security > InRelease Reading package lists... Done > > real 0m0.955s > user 0m0.395s > sys 0m0.236s Odd. I would think you would show a few more rep

Re: E: Package 'vlc' has no installation candidate ...

On Thu, Apr 28, 2022 at 09:27:11PM -0500, Albretch Mueller wrote: > How do you install vlc on Debian BUllseye? > # time apt-get install vlc > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree... Done > Reading state information... Done > Package vlc is not available, but

E: Package 'vlc' has no installation candidate ...

How do you install vlc on Debian BUllseye? these are the relatively weird problems I am having and I couldn't find much about them specifically online: # time apt-get update Hit:1 http://security.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security InRelease Reading package lists... Done

Re: Getting Bullseye's VLC to read/play H265 videos

mplayer -vo vdpau -vc ffhevcvdpau 4k_stream.mp4 On Sat, Oct 30, 2021 at 4:24 PM Intense Red wrote: >How can I convince Bullseye's VLC to read/play H265 videos? > >I have various h265 CODECS installed and other sources on the net > report > than VLC can play th

Re: Getting Bullseye's VLC to read/play H265 videos

On Sunday, October 31, 2021 2:34:57 PM CDT Georgi Naplatanov wrote: > If VLC is not hard requirement then you can try SMPlayer/mpv or mpv only. Thanks! Both smplayer and mpv will play the videos. -- "There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades

Re: Getting Bullseye's VLC to read/play H265 videos

On Sun, 2021-10-31 at 12:58 -0500, Intense Red wrote: > > Works out of the box on mine. Played H265 4K no problem. What is the > > error you're getting? > >VLC doesn't give an error, it just endlessly tries loading and reloading > the file (a video from

Re: Getting Bullseye's VLC to read/play H265 videos

On 10/31/21 19:58, Intense Red wrote: >> Works out of the box on mine. Played H265 4K no problem. What is the >> error you're getting? > >VLC doesn't give an error, it just endlessly tries loading and reloading > the file (a video from a security camera).

Re: Getting Bullseye's VLC to read/play H265 videos

> Works out of the box on mine. Played H265 4K no problem. What is the > error you're getting? VLC doesn't give an error, it just endlessly tries loading and reloading the file (a video from a security camera). I'm guessing it's some oddity in the file fo

Re: Getting Bullseye's VLC to read/play H265 videos

On 30/10/2021 22:04, piorunz wrote: Played H265 4K no problem VLC with Gigapixels Of Andromeda - Remastered - h265 + 2160p + 60fps.mp4 https://i.imgur.com/yKguMos.jpg -- With kindest regards, Piotr. ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Debian - The universal operating system ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://www.debian.org ⠈⠳⣄

Re: Getting Bullseye's VLC to read/play H265 videos

On 30/10/2021 21:23, Intense Red wrote: How can I convince Bullseye's VLC to read/play H265 videos? I have various h265 CODECS installed and other sources on the net report than VLC can play these files -- but not Bullseye's VLC. Can anyone whack me with a clue-bat? TI

Getting Bullseye's VLC to read/play H265 videos

How can I convince Bullseye's VLC to read/play H265 videos? I have various h265 CODECS installed and other sources on the net report than VLC can play these files -- but not Bullseye's VLC. Can anyone whack me with a clue-bat? TIA. -- "It's easier for our soft

Re: Cannot install vlc on bullseye

thtv machine, this produces 228 packages -- some of which are supporting vlc or other media-related software. -dsr-

Re: Cannot install vlc on bullseye

Le lundi 18 octobre 2021 à 20:43 -0500, R. Ramesh a écrit  [...] > I only have acroread from dmo and everything else is from debian. I > removed mythtv also to get to this point. [...] > I do not have the same freedom for three other (debian based) > machines  [...] Hello, - Acroread from deb

Re: Cannot install vlc on bullseye

On Lu, 18 oct 21, 20:43:45, R. Ramesh wrote: > > The best expert opinion is fairly well summed up on the Debian wiki at > > https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian > > . The advice given above is > > fairly > > blunt and matter of fact because the users

Re: Cannot install vlc on bullseye

The best expert opinion is fairly well summed up on the Debian wiki at https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian . The advice given above is fairly blunt and matter of fact because the users and developers on this list have seen this sort of thing lots of

Re: Cannot install vlc on bullseye

On Sb, 16 oct 21, 06:43:23, piorunz wrote: > On 16/10/2021 06:32, R. Ramesh wrote: > > > sudo aptitude install libpostproc55=10:4.4-dmo4+deb11u2 > > > > Still could not install vlc because libswscale5 was also older version > > and needed to be upgraded > > &

Unbreaking the system [WAS Re: Cannot install vlc on bullseye ]

> > fixing your system, and then... carefully consider whether you > > want to re-add the dmo apt repository at all. This. Remove all of these: remove VLC. Clear the packages. dpkg --purge them if that's what it takes. You will need to clear the packages in order to instqall/upgrade c

Re: Cannot install vlc on bullseye

On 10/16/21 2:20 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: R. Ramesh wrote: from deb-multimedia to make things work. I have kept it since. I have no desire to install older packages just because it is straight from debian vs. deb-multimedia. I expect those two repositories to be already aware of situation like mine

Re: Cannot install vlc on bullseye

R. Ramesh wrote: > from deb-multimedia to make things work. I have kept it since. I have no > desire to install older packages just because it is straight from debian vs. > deb-multimedia. I expect those two repositories to be already aware of > situation like mine and therefore handle these witho

Re: Cannot install vlc on bullseye

On 16/10/2021 18:27, R. Ramesh wrote: What is the fix I need to do? Remove my preferences.d/multimedia for deb-multimedia? My apologies, I am not very good with apt and dependencies and this may be something straightforward. Can you give me more detail on what I need to fix? BTW, I did not hav

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