VLC on ubuntu 12.04

zimbot · 05-02-2014, 05:45 PM

Friends,

I have a few ubuntu 12.04 systems with vlc

most are good
but there is one that i built and the VLC is ....goofed

it will not play 10 bit avi nor mkv
but my other syetems will

my vlc is 2.0.10 twoflower

I have tried to unInstall and reInstall

no luck

sometimes it will crash and complain about

libavcodec.so.53.9.0 libavutil.so.51.11.0

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I * i may have NOT said ok to --something vital at the time of build -- is that possible

thanks

snowday · 05-03-2014, 03:20 PM

Well, the stable and supported VLC for Ubuntu 12.04 is VLC 2.0.8-0ubuntu0.12.04.1. So the obvious questions are: does the supported 2.0.8 also crash? and: how/why did you install 2.0.10?

DJ Shaji · 05-04-2014, 07:25 PM

Did you install from source? These are part of the ffmpeg project, so you need to download and install the latest version of ffmpeg and then recompile vlc.

zimbot · 05-06-2014, 12:58 PM

I *think i did have
does the supported 2.0.8 and it also behaved badly
I will chck on that.
maybe uninstall - rollback to does the supported 2.0.8 via repo

zimbot · 05-06-2014, 01:01 PM

Did I install from source?
no i think i got a deb from the vlc site ...as i recall ( unsure )

These are part of the ffmpeg project,
I have the 'real' ffmpeg from source

in fact the error that I spoke of earlier was not installing the repo installed ffmpeg -- which is really avcon ... or something like that.

so since I have a good "real ffmpeg" (ffmpeg.org etc)
maybe I should uninstall vlc via the manager
and install vlc from source??