MX 17 Repository: The VLC Thread

[Eadwine Rose]

The regular repo is doing this:

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libvlc-bin (version 3.0.7.1-1mx17+1) will be upgraded to version 3.0.8-0+deb9u1
libvlc5 (version 3.0.7.1-1mx17+1) will be upgraded to version 3.0.8-0+deb9u1
libvlccore9 (version 3.0.7.1-1mx17+1) will be upgraded to version 3.0.8-0+deb9u1
vlc (version 3.0.7.1-1mx17+1) will be upgraded to version 3.0.8-0+deb9u1
vlc-bin (version 3.0.7.1-1mx17+1) will be upgraded to version 3.0.8-0+deb9u1
vlc-data (version 3.0.7.1-1mx17+1) will be upgraded to version 3.0.8-0+deb9u1
vlc-plugin-base (version 3.0.7.1-1mx17+1) will be upgraded to version 3.0.8-0+deb9u1
vlc-plugin-qt (version 3.0.7.1-1mx17+1) will be upgraded to version 3.0.8-0+deb9u1
vlc-plugin-video-output (version 3.0.7.1-1mx17+1) will be upgraded to version 3.0.8-0+deb9u1
libva-drm1 (version 1.7.3-2) will be installed
libva-wayland1 (version 1.7.3-2) will be installed
vlc-l10n (version 3.0.8-0+deb9u1) will be installed

[Stevo]

Yes, Debian updated it in their security update repo after we put it in our test repo.

If the Debian version breaks the hardware accelerated video decoding that you had working earlier with our MX 17 version, like va-api, the test repo version will upgrade over the Debian 3.0.8 and should restore it, though I don't know if you need to reboot to fix it afterwards.

We will probably move ours to main if Debian's does indeed break va-api.

[Eadwine Rose]

Don't know if this is helpful, but I do see a number of autoremovables after that upgrade in stable:

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libaribb24-0 will be removed with configuration
libmysofa0 will be removed with configuration
libplacebo4 will be removed with configuration
libspatialaudio0 will be removed with configuration
libva-wayland2 will be removed with configuration

I am not touching these puppies, but figured I'd show.

[Stevo]

Those are libraries that our updated ffmpeg in the MX repo uses. Since Debian's VLC uses their stock ffmpeg, you don't need our updated ffmpeg either, so out they go. If you install vlc-3.0.8 from the test repo, they won't be orphans any more, though.

[Eadwine Rose]

Ah.. so as soon as 3.0.8 moves to main they will be pulled back in if I should remove them. Just leaving them. :-)


Hmm.. just marked vlc for upgrade, it pulls in:

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libvlc-bin (version 3.0.8-0+deb9u1) will be upgraded to version 3.0.8-2mx17+1
vlc (version 3.0.8-0+deb9u1) will be upgraded to version 3.0.8-2mx17+1
vlc-bin (version 3.0.8-0+deb9u1) will be upgraded to version 3.0.8-2mx17+1
vlc-data (version 3.0.8-0+deb9u1) will be upgraded to version 3.0.8-2mx17+1
vlc-plugin-base (version 3.0.8-0+deb9u1) will be upgraded to version 3.0.8-2mx17+1
vlc-plugin-qt (version 3.0.8-0+deb9u1) will be upgraded to version 3.0.8-2mx17+1
vlc-plugin-video-output (version 3.0.8-0+deb9u1) will be upgraded to version 3.0.8-2mx17+1

However when I look for everything VLC of that version in Synaptic these are all upgradable:

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libvlc-bin (version 3.0.8-0+deb9u1) will be upgraded to version 3.0.8-2mx17+1
libvlc5 (version 3.0.8-0+deb9u1) will be upgraded to version 3.0.8-2mx17+1
libvlccore9 (version 3.0.8-0+deb9u1) will be upgraded to version 3.0.8-2mx17+1
vlc (version 3.0.8-0+deb9u1) will be upgraded to version 3.0.8-2mx17+1
vlc-bin (version 3.0.8-0+deb9u1) will be upgraded to version 3.0.8-2mx17+1
vlc-data (version 3.0.8-0+deb9u1) will be upgraded to version 3.0.8-2mx17+1
vlc-l10n (version 3.0.8-0+deb9u1) will be upgraded to version 3.0.8-2mx17+1
vlc-plugin-base (version 3.0.8-0+deb9u1) will be upgraded to version 3.0.8-2mx17+1
vlc-plugin-qt (version 3.0.8-0+deb9u1) will be upgraded to version 3.0.8-2mx17+1
vlc-plugin-video-output (version 3.0.8-0+deb9u1) will be upgraded to version 3.0.8-2mx17+1

Seems like when I just mark upgrade vlc it is missing a few. Shouldn't all of the above be pulled along?

[Stevo]

I'll have to take a look at that. Don't update in the meantime.

[Eadwine Rose]

I won't :-)

[dr-kart]

Current vlc from stable repo won't use hardware VDPAU acceleration (in my case). Even though it is turned deliberately on via settings.

Updated vlc from test repo does it right:

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avcodec decoder: Using NVIDIA VDPAU Driver Shared Library  430.40  Sun Jul 21 04:55:58 CDT 2019 for hardware decoding

[Stevo]

It looks like the libvlc* package Depends are done by matching ABIs, so if you already have Debian's 3.0.8 libvlc_something installed, our vlc figures that's good enough.

I'll rebuild ours to eliminate the need for the newer libebml, since Stretch's version of that was patched to fix the security hole anyway, and ask Tim to put it into main. That way, our higher version will update all the packages as a normal upgrade, and that should fix the hardware acceleration.

I'm also going to make all the Recommended packages that Debian installs as default also install with ours, so don't panic if it pulls in a few extra plugins.

[Eadwine Rose]

Uhm.. they appear in main all of a sudden?

Just double checked, test repo is not selected. Or am I just seeing cross-eyed?

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libvlc-bin (version 3.0.8-0+deb9u1) will be upgraded to version 3.0.8-2mx17+2
libvlc5 (version 3.0.8-0+deb9u1) will be upgraded to version 3.0.8-2mx17+2
libvlccore9 (version 3.0.8-0+deb9u1) will be upgraded to version 3.0.8-2mx17+2
vlc (version 3.0.8-0+deb9u1) will be upgraded to version 3.0.8-2mx17+2
vlc-bin (version 3.0.8-0+deb9u1) will be upgraded to version 3.0.8-2mx17+2
vlc-data (version 3.0.8-0+deb9u1) will be upgraded to version 3.0.8-2mx17+2
vlc-l10n (version 3.0.8-0+deb9u1) will be upgraded to version 3.0.8-2mx17+2
vlc-plugin-base (version 3.0.8-0+deb9u1) will be upgraded to version 3.0.8-2mx17+2
vlc-plugin-qt (version 3.0.8-0+deb9u1) will be upgraded to version 3.0.8-2mx17+2
vlc-plugin-video-output (version 3.0.8-0+deb9u1) will be upgraded to version 3.0.8-2mx17+2
vlc-plugin-notify (version 3.0.8-2mx17+2) will be installed
vlc-plugin-samba (version 3.0.8-2mx17+2) will be installed
vlc-plugin-skins2 (version 3.0.8-2mx17+2) will be installed
vlc-plugin-video-splitter (version 3.0.8-2mx17+2) will be installed
vlc-plugin-visualization (version 3.0.8-2mx17+2) will be installed