After updating to vlc-0.8.4a-r1 on both Gentoo machines I operate, I found that it was unable to decode XviD and DivX streams (with fourcc's DIV3 and XVID respectively). When checking the preferences under the Input / Codecs menu item, it listed no codecs at all (except "Fake"). Both Gentoo machines suffer form this. I tried deleting ~/.vlc, re-emering vlc, without success. These are the USE-flags I use when emerging VLC: [ebuild R ] media-video/vlc-0.8.4a-r1 USE="X a52 aac alsa dvd esd ffmpeg hal mp3 mpeg ncurses nls ogg opengl oss png real samba sdl skins stream truetype vorbis win32codecs wxwindows xml2 xv -3dfx -aalib -arts -avahi -bidi -cdda -cddb -corba -daap -debug -dts -dvb -fbcon -flac -ggi -gnutls -httpd -joystick -libcaca -lirc -live -matroska -mod -nsplugin -screen -shout -speex -svg -svga -theora -v4l -vcd -vlm -xinerama -xosd" 0 kB
And my emerge --info: Portage 2.1_pre5-r4 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.4.5, glibc-2.3.6-r3, 2.6.15-gentoo-r5 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.15-gentoo-r5 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.73GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre16 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r2 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium-m -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium-m -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.nl.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X a52 aac acpi alsa apm avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cups dbus dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode esd foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal imlib ipv6 jpeg libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx motif mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nvidia ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcmcia pdflib perl png python quicktime readline real samba sdl spell sse sse2 ssl tcpd truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts vorbis win32codecs xml2 xmms xv xvid zlib elibc_glibc kernel_linux userland_GNU" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS
You have media-video/ffmpeg-0.4.9_p20060302 installed, don't you? Well, it's broken... Mask it and everything will work as before. Duplicate of bug #124802
(In reply to comment #2) > You have media-video/ffmpeg-0.4.9_p20060302 installed, don't you? Well, it's > broken... > > Mask it and everything will work as before. Thank you. It seems to have already been taken care of as ffmpeg was masked when I synced just half an hour ago. After rebuilding VLC, it is now working properly again.
So I guess I should mark this as FIXED (if it'll allow me)
Please leave it open so that i can track it :) By the way, I've masked it on portage as it's breaking more than just vlc.
Okay, problem found, bug fixed, and ready to unmask ffmpeg soon then.
