vlc-1.1.13

[nightflier]

Our current vlc-1.1.2 will not play this file:
http://download.blender.org/peach/bigbuckbunny_movies/big_buck_bunny_480p_surround-fix.avi

I tried upgrading to 1.1.13 from connie's alien slackbuilds and it works great. We should have our own version of it.
http://connie.slackware.com/~alien/slackbuilds/vlc/build/

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Built and uploaded to repo.

[nightflier]

Tested. I can see Big Buck Bunny now. 

This package also shows dep avahi >= 0.6.30.
Works fine with the installed 0.6.28 though.

[nightflier]

Spoke too soon

Tried again on a fresh install of Light. Problem remains with the VL package.
I'm thinking that some codecs are missing, guess my initial system somehow retained them between upgrades.
Looking at alienbob's package; it's 21MB. Ours is only 7MB.

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OK, I'll run alien bob's package.
edit.
Alien Bob's package includes a new ffmpeg 0.9 and all of it's dependencies.
We tend to build ffmpeg as a separate package.

I'll still give it a test, if it is a totally static package it may work, but if it upgrades ffmpeg to 0.9 it will break a number of applications and they will also have to be rebuilt.

[nightflier]

For what it's worth, on my VL6 system, the file in question plays without problems using the VL packages for vlc-1.0.5 and mplayer.
On VL7, neither vlc nor mplayer handles it. Maybe there is some other way of providing the necessary codecs (FMP4 MPEG-4).

Whatever works.

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@nightflier
Desided to test and I am playing http://download.blender.org/peach/bigbuckbunny_movies/big_buck_bunny_480p_surround-fix.avi in vlc 1.1.2 on a fresh install of VL7.0 32bit gold in Virtual Box, no problem.

Upgraded to 1.1.3 and tested it as well and that one had a missing video format mp4v. 
Which made me think the problem must rest with the new vlc 1.1.3 and not ffmpeg.

So I did another test and used ffmpegs own player on the link and it worked, not great but it worked.

Code:

ffplay http://download.blender.org/peach/bigbuckbunny_movies/big_buck_bunny_480p_surround-fix.avi

Mplayer also had no problem with this video. So I'm thinking it is not a codec problem.

So in the end I think I'll have to pull my build of vlc 1.1.13 and play with it a bit.  Don't know what has changed since I used the same SlackBuild as 1.1.12.  Hope to find out.

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ok, think I got it. vlc-1.1.13-i586-2vl70.txz uploaded and ready for testing.

[nightflier]

Tested on Std. Gold and works. I appreciate it. 

The problem I described must be one of my own doing. In Light, I replaced mplayer with vlc (personal preference because of the way it interacts with Firefox). I thought vlc was all self contained, but it seems like it must use codecs provided by other packages if it can't use it's own.

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No problem. I think it helped the vlc 1.1.13 package in the end.