On Sunday, January 15, 2012 08:13 AM David Haller wrote:
Hello,
On Sun, 15 Jan 2012, Stan Goodman wrote: [..]
openSUSE has to ship due to local laws." Now I have reread it more carefully; what it seems to be saying is that I need to keep the existing vlc repo in addition to adding packman.inode.at/suse/11.4. Am I know reading it correctly?
If you're careful, yes, you can keep both repos, but you should prioritize one repo (I vote for packman) over the other, e.g. let videolan at the default priority of 99 and give packman e.g. a priority of 80. That way, you won't pingpong e.g. 'vlc' between packman and videolan and you should also get all libs from the same repo. With one exception: packman doesn't package libcss. So get that from videolan and the rest from packman.
If you want to prefer the videolan repo, give that the prio of 80 and leave packman at 99, and get vlc and the libs videolan packages from the videolan-repo. But be aware that that may cause trouble with other programs (e.g. mplayer, xine, ...) that also use that lib but that videolan does not package. The problem is that those programs and the libs (most critically ffmpeg, i.e. libavcode, libavformat etc.) are rather snugly intertwined. So much so, that e.g. handbrake brings it's own copy of ffmpeg and other stuff and links that statically. So, again, in a nutshell, my recommendation:
- add videolan with prio 99 - add packman with prio 80 - install vlc (from packman) - install (only) libcss from videolan
HTH, -dnh
I've been using vlc-beta (1.3) for some time now and I like it. (I also use vlc's browser plugin, but only version 1.1 is compatible with vlc 1.3). Re the audio issue, I've had a problem with both packman and vlc versions not being able to grab the audio device after a xine application has run. I can't find a process holding the device. I suppose it's possible this is because I'm using the xine phonon backend (I just can't gstreamer working). In any event, there is a conflict somewhere regardless of vlc version. I've had no conflicts with mplayer. Oh, btw, that should be libdvdcss, not libcss. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org