On 11/04/13 16:36, Dominique Leuenberger a.k.a. Dimstar wrote:
Quoting Basil Chupin
: On 11/04/13 12:16, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
Packaging has apparently changed for vlc.
If you update to vlc-2.0.6-115.2.x86_64, note that the codecs have been separated and need to be installed, vlc-codecs-2.0.6-115.2.x86_64 or you cannot play broken/restricted/drm'ed music.
No notice or warning is presented :^(
So that's the reason why a file which I received this morning from Fred would not play :-( .
Bloody annoying when this sort of thing happens :-( .
Sorry for that... my bad.
OK, so I have now stuck some pins into a doll I just created in your image and you should start feeling uncomfortable any time real soon now :-) .
Background: VLC has been added to Factory and will now be part of the standard distribution. The reason for this is that KDE does not support GStreamer 1.0 and there is little chance this will change anytime soon. So the team needed a different phonon backend, and decided to use libvlc for this.
As you know, openSUSE cannot ship legally difficult codecs; in order to not cause 'trouble' for the users between the distribution and either the VideoLAN or Packman repositories, the VLC package was reworked so that the 'difficult' codecs are split out in a separate package, allowing you to use the 'distributions' vlc package and only add the vlc-codecs package on top. And this package is usually pulled in automatically by zypper.
As long as it all ends up working as it did in the past, and as long as the reworkings are documented so that people can get vlc to work as it did in the past, then it's all fine. However, this last bit about "....this package is usually pulled in automatically by zypper". For the first time in many years recently I have lost faith in zypper because every morning the first thing I do is to do "zypper refresh", "zypper up" and in recent weeks it has produced mostly zilch - BUT going into YaST2 and doing the Update Packages part HAS then found packages which needed updating (and were then updated) but which zypper ignored. (You may have read my thread in HELP, "We have finally reached Windows standards :-) " I posted on 30 April). BC -- Using openSUSE 12.3 x86_64 KDE 4.10.2 & kernel 3.8.6-2 on a system with- AMD FX 8-core 3.6/4.2GHz processor 16GB PC14900/1866MHz Quad Channel Corsair "Vengeance" RAM Gigabyte AMD3+ m/board; Gigabyte nVidia GTX550Ti 1GB DDR5 GPU -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org