how to install VLC in debian-Lenny ?
I have checked in LinuxQuestions and on the web... lots of
people are having problems installing VLC in Lenny... but, I have not yet seen a working answer to this problem. I should mention - VLC works without problems in the "dpup" or "lennypup" variation of puppylinux... so, I am not without VLC altogether_ just cant get it to work in my standard Lenny install. This has been a major snarlup for many months, and with lots of other users, so, while it is reasonable to expect it will be fixed in the next version of Debian, I wonder if it is just too broken in Lenny to ever be fixed ? I welcome input from any Lenny users who have gotten VLC working ! thanks |
What, specifically, are you having problems with?
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aptitude install vlc, can't be any simpler than that.
VLC conflict between debian lenny and debian-multimedia repository - http://www.zeitoun.net/articles/vlc-...ltimedia/start |
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all the "how to install the very latest in dusty old Lenny" threads, all of which suggest ways to break Lenny :-) |
Stu7 -- Please take a look at How to Ask Questions the Smart Way. It's a really good essay, and will help you get answers to technical questions, while you're trying to learn to use Linux.
Nobody is going to be able to help you, until you provide specific information about what your problem is. Saying "It doesn't work." doesn't provide enough information for anybody to diagnose and help you fix the problem you are having. What kind of errors are you getting, if any? What else have you tried to fix it? What happened when you tried to fix it? Give specifics on your problem, or you will never get specific solutions. |
Debian 5 Lenny , vlc :
I just installed these three with Synaptic : vlc , libdvdread , libdvdcss2 .. And commercial encrypted DVDs play OK. .. |
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this is the first time it messed up on me. I checked, and do in fact have all three of the libraries you mention already installed. After looking for VLC specific codecs, Im thinking Lenny's version of VLC is just badly broken for MP4s somewhere. thanks for replying. |
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it was libdvdcss2 so I got that, and at least part of the problem has gone away it seems. Still cant play MP4 directly, but my VLC now plays MPG. Thanks again for taking an interest. |
See if you have libxvidcore4 - High quality ISO MPEG4 codec library installed. It is in the debian-multimedia.org repo.
apt-cache policy libxvidcore4 |
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