Bug#486096: vlc 0.8.6.e-2.3 does not play wmv nor wma

[Julian Gilbey]

On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 11:00:30PM +0200, Markus Huber wrote:
> I suppose you have one or more of the following packages not from Debian but 
> from debian.multimedia.org which is a third party repo:
> 
> ffmpeg libavcodec51 libavdevice52 libavformat52 libavutil49 libpostproc51 
> libswscale
> 
> Please reinstall those packages from the Debian repos.
> 
> wmv files are playing here flawlessly using ffmpeg packaged from Debian Sid, 
> so I do not regard this as bug at all:

However, do have a look at the bandwidth statistics for
debian-multimedia.org
(http://www.debian-multimedia.org/statistics.php) - around 1.6 million
visitors and 2 terabytes of downloads in May alone.  This suggests
that there are a *lot* of people using the debian-multimedia.org
packages, and it is a real shame that the -2.2 -> -2.3 changes broke
compatibility with these packages.  Is there some way that the
incompatible change can be reverted or something?

   Julian