Bug#528365: VLC has serious problems showing xvid and h264 videos

[Fabian Greffrath]

Reinhard Tartler schrieb:
> It would be great if Christian (Marillat) would again introduce an own
> SONAME, this would avoid these problems in the first place.

He has proven us several times that we cannot rely on him.

> Actually, this line should be added to VLC, I think. I still wonder why
> vlc breaks with a newer ffmpeg.

I don't think it's up to VLC. It builds and runs fine with all 
packages in Debian.

> At some point, I intend to have a newer ffmpeg in experimental. At this
> point, this trouble will hit as again.

OMG! Have you and Loic already evaluated how this could be done? I 
think the initial request came from Loic.

> What I'd prefer was a check in libavcodec's prerm that screams terribly
> if it detects an upgrade to a non-debian version.

Wow, that's a great idea. Could have been mine. ;)


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