Re: [opensuse] vlc regressing?

On 13/02/12 01:25, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

* Basil Chupin [02-12-12 01:11]:

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A couple of days ago zypper installed a number of updates to the KDE 4.8 files I am using - including some to vlc.

Of course following this, vlc would not work and I therefore had to do what everybody has been doing for a long time and that is install vlc from videolan.org as a "one-click install". Don't understand this maneuver. I haven't had to perform it. But I also do not use videolan repo; I use packman except for the codecs.

I have been doing it this way for a very long time - for so long, in fact, that I don't bother doing it any other way.

Also, istr that there was problems mixing videolan/packman but do not know if that is still true.

I have heard this as well. I do have the packman repo selected and perhaps this is where the problem(s) come from; I don't know whether yesterday's update to vlc came from the packman repo.

Following this, vlc worked again - *BUT*, unlike to what has been the case for the past years, when I switch to another workspace/desktop vlc audio goes MUTE while vlc continues running, in the background, on the workspace where I always run it (Desktop #6). (This going mute is similar to what happens in, say, the game Pysol - Tri Peaks which goes into PAUSE mode when you switch to another desktop.) I have not noticed this but recently have used clementine for streaming rather than vlc and may have missed noticing.....

"Clementine"? First time I hear of it. Will go and look at it. (She doesn't wear shoeses which are herring boxes without topses, does she? :-) .) BC -- Aspire to inspire before you expire. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org