Re: [gentoo-user] vlc wants to slot ffmpeg?

[Brian Johnson]

Stroller,

This doesn't mean that ffmpeg is slotted. It means that the version of VLC
you're trying to merge depends on an OLDER version of ffmpeg. VLC has some
major issues with later versions of ffmpeg that are being handled rather
poorly upstream. So unfortunately, if you want to use a stable VLC (0.8.x)
you have to use a rather old ffmpeg. Nothing can be done to correct this. If
you want a newer ffmpeg, try moving to a masked version of VLC or find a
0.9.x version in an overlay.

Any attempt at making VLC 0.8.x work with newer versions of ffmpeg will
result in video playback with audio only (no video).

- Brian

On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 3:39 AM, Stroller <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk>
wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> With an `emerge -pv world` today I've noticed an anomaly with vlv & ffmpeg.
> It initially came up with a portage message which reported AFAIR a package
> would be slotted for the first time. I uninstalled vlc just for the moment,
> and upgraded ffmpeg to the latest version. Still I see this problem:
>
>
> 901 ~ $ emerge -pv ffmpeg
>
> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
>
> Calculating dependencies... done!
> [ebuild   R   ] media-video/ffmpeg-0.4.9_p20080326  USE="a52 aac doc encode
> mmx mp3 network theora truetype vorbis x264 xvid zlib -X (-altivec) -amr
> -bindist -debug -hardcoded-tables -ieee1394 -imlib -ipv6 -sdl -test
> -threads" 0 kB
>
> Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB
> 901 ~ $ emerge -pv vlc
>
> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
>
> Calculating dependencies... done!
> [ebuild     UD] media-video/ffmpeg-0.4.9_p20070616 [0.4.9_p20080326]
> USE="a52 aac doc encode mmx network ogg%* theora truetype vorbis x264 xvid
> zlib -X (-altivec) -amr -debug -ieee1394 -imlib -oss% -sdl -test -threads
> -v4l% (-bindist%) (-hardcoded-tables%) (-ipv6%) (-mp3%*)" 0 kB
> [ebuild  N    ] media-video/vlc-0.8.6g  USE="a52 dvd flac live mp3 mpeg
> musepack ncurses ogg png samba stream svga theora truetype vlm vorbis
> win32codecs x264 xml -3dfx -X -aalib -alsa (-altivec) -arts -avahi -bidi
> -cdda -cddb -corba -daap -dc1394 -debug -directfb -dts -dvb -esd -fbcon -ggi
> -gnome -gnutls -hal -httpd -jack -libcaca -libnotify -lirc -matroska
> -modplug -nsplugin -opengl -optimisememory -oss -rtsp -sdl -sdl-image
> -seamonkey -shout -skins -speex -svg -upnp -v4l -vcd -wxwindows -xinerama
> -xosd -xulrunner -xv" 11,417 kB
>
> Total: 2 packages (1 downgrade, 1 new), Size of downloads: 11,417 kB
> 902 ~ $
>
>
> I would (obviously) prefer not to have two different versions of ffmpeg on
> my system, and you'll see that the version pulled in by vlc has the mp3 USE
> flag forcibly disabled. I don't know that I've ever actually used vlc, so
> this is probably unimportant, but I'd like to have it installed just in case
> I want to stream video around the house in the future. Does anyone know if
> there's a workaround for this?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Stroller.
>
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