Bug#592462: Solved: dump your old config files
Dave Witbrodt
dawitbro at sbcglobal.net
Sat Aug 21 00:37:25 UTC 2010
Package: vlc
Severity: normal
I have been holding version 1.0.6* of vlc for this very reason: video
output failed beginning with all versions 1.1*. This has been going on
for a couple of months, but investigating this was not a high priority
for me since holding back 1.0.6* (and some of its dependencies which
have disappeared from the repository) allowed me to continue using vlc.
I use some packages from debian-multimedia.org which require the suite
of ffmeg libs -- which vlc also depends on -- and I wrongly assumed that
this might be to blame. Today, when I finally found some time to look
into the problem, I found that entirely removing d-m.org stuff and using
only packages from official Debian unstable or experimental did not get
video output working again.
Christian Marillat had given me some advice (regarding mplayer) that
sometimes config files are not compatible between new and old versions
of packages. I felt that it was unlikely that vlc would be unable to
play video completely, since the older version had been working fine.
Looking around in $HOME, I found a '.vlc' directory; moving it out of
the way made no difference. I tried versions 1.1.2 from unstable and
1.1.3 from experimental, with no positive results.
Then I noticed that vlc was still remembering the old "recent files"
playlist from stuff I had played on version 1.0.6. But if I had blown
away the config files, how was it remembering? So, maybe there are
other config files, right?
A quick
find -name '*vlc*'
in $HOME found a directory called '.config/vlc'. Moving that out of the
way restored video. All the video formats I have files to test have
worked, so everything was actually just fine all along.
Scanning for tips about this in
/usr/share/doc/vlc/{changelog,NEWS,README}*
revealed no direct statement that configs were incompatible between
versions 1.0* and 1.1*. What baffles me is: how could they be
incompatible, since they moved? Maybe vlc looks in both places now?
Does it get confused if it finds old configs and tries to use them?
At this point, I have even restored the d-m.org stuff I had removed in
order to make sure the d-m.o ffmpeg libs weren't to blame. In fact,
video output in vlc 1.1.3 works fine with the d-m.o stuff, just like it
did with the old 1.0.6 version. So, d-m.o libs weren't relevant at
all. (I have already apologized to Christian Marillat! ;)
Can we please have something about this in the vlc man pages and/or
/usr/share/doc/vlc? I have a feeling a lot of Debian vlc users are
going to get burned by it.
HTH,
Dave W.
[Offtopic: no that's not a Debian kernel listed below!]
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (350, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.35.2+drt.c9f9e91+rv5b1714d+fixhdmi01.100820.desktop.kms (SMP w/4 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages vlc depends on:
ii libaa1 1.4p5-38 ascii art library
ii libavcodec52 5:0.6~svn20100726-0.0 library to encode decode multimedi
ii libavutil50 5:0.6~svn20100726-0.0 avutil shared libraries - runtime
ii libc6 2.11.2-2 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libfreetype6 2.4.2-1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libfribidi0 0.19.2-1 Free Implementation of the Unicode
ii libgcc1 1:4.4.4-9 GCC support library
ii libgl1-mesa- 7.9-devel+git100429.95bfc8f A free implementation of the OpenG
ii libqtcore4 4:4.6.3-1 Qt 4 core module
ii libqtgui4 4:4.6.3-1 Qt 4 GUI module
ii libsdl-image 1.2.10-2+b1 image loading library for Simple D
ii libsdl1.2deb 1.2.14-6 Simple DirectMedia Layer
ii libstdc++6 4.4.4-9 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libtar 1.2.11-6 C library for manipulating tar arc
ii libva-x11-1 1.0.1-3 Video Acceleration (VA) API for Li
ii libva1 1.0.1-3 Video Acceleration (VA) API for Li
ii libvlccore4 1.1.3-2 base library for VLC and its modul
ii libx11-6 2:1.3.3-3 X11 client-side library
ii libx11-xcb1 2:1.3.3-3 Xlib/XCB interface library
ii libxcb-keysy 0.3.6-1 utility libraries for X C Binding
ii libxcb-randr 1.6-1 X C Binding, randr extension
ii libxcb-shm0 1.6-1 X C Binding, shm extension
ii libxcb-xv0 1.6-1 X C Binding, xv extension
ii libxcb1 1.6-1 X C Binding
ii libxext6 2:1.1.2-1 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii ttf-freefont 20090104-7 Freefont Serif, Sans and Mono True
ii vlc-nox 1.1.3-2 multimedia player and streamer (wi
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages vlc recommends:
ii vlc-plugin-notify 1.1.3-2 LibNotify plugin for VLC
pn vlc-plugin-pulse <none> (no description available)
Versions of packages vlc suggests:
pn mozilla-plugin-vlc <none> (no description available)
pn videolan-doc <none> (no description available)
Versions of packages vlc-nox depends on:
ii liba52-0.7.4 0.7.4-14 library for decoding ATSC A/52 str
ii libasound2 1.0.23-1 shared library for ALSA applicatio
ii libass4 0.9.9-1 library for SSA/ASS subtitles rend
ii libavahi-client3 0.6.27-2 Avahi client library
ii libavahi-common3 0.6.27-2 Avahi common library
ii libavc1394-0 0.5.3-1+b2 control IEEE 1394 audio/video devi
ii libavcodec52 5:0.6~svn20100726-0.0 library to encode decode multimedi
ii libavformat52 5:0.6~svn20100726-0.0 ffmpeg file format library
ii libavutil50 5:0.6~svn20100726-0.0 avutil shared libraries - runtime
ii libc6 2.11.2-2 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libcaca0 0.99.beta17-1 colour ASCII art library
ii libcddb2 1.3.2-2 library to access CDDB data - runt
ii libcdio10 0.81-4 library to read and control CD-ROM
ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.24-3 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libdc1394-22 2.1.2-3 high level programming interface f
ii libdca0 0.0.5-3 decoding library for DTS Coherent
ii libdirac-encoder0 1.0.2-3 open and royalty free high quality
ii libdvbpsi6 0.1.7-1 library for MPEG TS and DVB PSI ta
ii libdvdnav4 4.1.3-7 DVD navigation library
ii libdvdread4 4.1.3-10 library for reading DVDs
ii libebml0 0.7.7-3.1 access library for the EBML format
ii libfaad2 2.7-4 freeware Advanced Audio Decoder -
ii libflac8 1.2.1-3 Free Lossless Audio Codec - runtim
ii libfontconfig1 2.8.0-2.1 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.4.2-1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libfribidi0 0.19.2-1 Free Implementation of the Unicode
ii libgcc1 1:4.4.4-9 GCC support library
ii libgcrypt11 1.4.5-2 LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii libgnutls26 2.10.1-1 the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii libgpg-error0 1.6-1 library for common error values an
ii libkate1 0.3.8-1 Kate is a codec for karaoke and te
ii liblircclient0 0.8.3-5 infra-red remote control support -
ii liblua5.1-0 5.1.4-5 Simple, extensible, embeddable pro
ii libmad0 0.15.1b-5 MPEG audio decoder library
ii libmatroska0 0.8.1-1.1 extensible open standard audio/vid
ii libmodplug1 1:0.8.8.1-1 shared libraries for mod music bas
ii libmpcdec6 2:0.1~r459-1 MusePack decoder - library
ii libmpeg2-4 0.4.1-3 MPEG1 and MPEG2 video decoder libr
ii libmtp8 1.0.3-1 Media Transfer Protocol (MTP) libr
ii libncursesw5 5.7+20100313-2 shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libogg0 1.2.0~dfsg-1 Ogg bitstream library
ii libpng12-0 1.2.44-1 PNG library - runtime
ii libpostproc51 5:0.6~svn20100726-0.0 postproc shared libraries
ii libproxy0 0.3.1-1 automatic proxy configuration mana
ii libraw1394-11 2.0.5-2 library for direct access to IEEE
ii libschroedinger-1. 1.0.9-2 library for encoding/decoding of D
ii libshout3 2.2.2-5+b1 MP3/Ogg Vorbis broadcast streaming
ii libsmbclient 2:3.4.8~dfsg-2 shared library for communication w
ii libspeex1 1.2~rc1-1 The Speex codec runtime library
ii libstdc++6 4.4.4-9 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libswscale0 5:0.6~svn20100726-0.0 ffmpeg video scaling library
ii libtag1c2a 1.6.3-1 TagLib Audio Meta-Data Library
ii libtheora0 1.1.1+dfsg.1-3 The Theora Video Compression Codec
ii libtwolame0 0.3.12-1 MPEG Audio Layer 2 encoding librar
ii libudev0 161-1 libudev shared library
ii libupnp3 1:1.6.6-5 Portable SDK for UPnP Devices, ver
ii libv4l-0 0.8.0-1 Collection of video4linux support
ii libvcdinfo0 0.7.23-4+b2 library to extract information fro
ii libvlc5 1.1.3-2 multimedia player and streamer lib
ii libvlccore4 1.1.3-2 base library for VLC and its modul
ii libvorbis0a 1.3.1-1 The Vorbis General Audio Compressi
ii libvorbisenc2 1.3.1-1 The Vorbis General Audio Compressi
ii libxml2 2.7.7.dfsg-4 GNOME XML library
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages libvlc5 depends on:
ii libc6 2.11.2-2 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libvlccore4 1.1.3-2 base library for VLC and its modul
Versions of packages libvlccore4 depends on:
ii libc6 2.11.2-2 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.24-3 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii vlc-data 1.1.3-2 Common data for VLC
Versions of packages vlc is related to:
ii libavutil50 5:0.6~svn20100726-0.0 avutil shared libraries - runtime
pn libavutil51 <none> (no description available)
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