Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (564 mails)

[C <smaug42@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Just curious... does the VLC that we can install from the openSUSE
Factory repo actually play anything?

I was beating my head against the wall here today trying to figure out
why VLC was unable to play anything on my openSUSE 12.1 install.
Normally VLC is the be-all-play-all application on any OS.  I tried
everything I could think of until it hit me to check where it was
installed from... and it was installed from the KDE4 playground
Factory repo. I switched over to the VLC from Packman all all my
multimedia started working again.

This leads me to ask... since VLC in the Factory repo is so severely
crippled that it appears to be completely unusable, why is anyone even
bothering to put it in there?  I understand (and hate) the whole
argument around codecs etc... that's not what I am asking here... If
the player cannot be used for the vast majority of the videos is it
worth the time and effort of including it in Factory?

C.
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