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:
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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06-27-2008, 04:08 PM
"Brian Johnson"
vlc wants to slot ffmpeg?
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@stellar.eclipse.co.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:
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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06-27-2008, 04:55 PM
Stroller
vlc wants to slot ffmpeg?
On 27 Jun 2008, at 17:08, Brian Johnson wrote:...
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).
Thanks for the explanation. I'll wait until 0.9 goes stable.When originally running `emerge -pv world`*I *did* get an emerge message about slotting, and it did appear to be trying to emerge BOTH versions of ffmpeg, but I'm afraid I can't reproduce this now. I guess I could do so by grabbing the*media-video/vlc-0.8.6f ebuild from Portage's attic putting it in local, but I can't be arsed. You'll just have to trust me when I say I don't know the exact message.Thanks for trying,Stroller.
vlc wants to slot ffmpeg?
