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Bug 903665 - media-video/vlc-3.0.18 flac issues
Summary: media-video/vlc-3.0.18 flac issues
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: AMD64 Linux
: Normal normal
Assignee: Gentoo Media-video project
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Reported: 2023-04-01 16:48 UTC by Andrew Saunders
Modified: 2023-05-13 22:52 UTC (History)
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Description Andrew Saunders 2023-04-01 16:48:45 UTC 
VLC has known issues with playing flac files.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. play flac file
2. skips and pauses
Actual Results:  
play any flac file.

Expected Results:  
should not skip.

Here is the fix I found over at arch. Tested and works
https://github.com/archlinux/svntogit-packages/blob/packages/vlc/trunk/c2dd4bfe.patch
Comment 1 Larry the Git Cow gentoo-dev 2023-05-13 22:52:10 UTC 
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=a15de2a067817db7ed034d0c12b7c7c3ba83e7b9

commit a15de2a067817db7ed034d0c12b7c7c3ba83e7b9
Author:     Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>
AuthorDate: 2023-05-13 22:42:45 +0000
Commit:     Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>
CommitDate: 2023-05-13 22:49:13 +0000

    media-video/vlc: backport FLAC CRC fix
    
    Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/903665
    Signed-off-by: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>

 media-video/vlc/files/vlc-3.0.18-flac-crc.patch |  90 ++++
 media-video/vlc/vlc-3.0.18-r1.ebuild            | 518 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 608 insertions(+)