SOLVED: Re: Wheezy: Can only play ogv video

--- On Fri, 5/11/12, Christopher Judd <judd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Try just installing phonon-backend-vlc (and whatever
dependencies it pulls in).

That was a good suggestion, and I was able to (kind of) solve the problem. I now can play MP4, OGV, AVI and WMV files with KDE DragonPlayer without issues, which is what I wanted to achieve in the first place.

Hilariously, a new issue appeared: VLC player can't play any of the above video files, it just starts up, shows the first frame of the video and hangs. I have to "kill -9" to get rid of it. Still it's a step forward.

Here's what I did:

# aptitude install phonon-backend-vlc
[...]

# aptitude purge phonon-backend-gstreamer --purge-unused
[...]

# aptitude install phonon-backend-vlc vlc
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libsdl-image1.2{a} libtar0{a} libupnp6{ab} libva-x11-1{a} libwebp2{a} libxcb-composite0{a}
libxcb-keysyms1{a} libxcb-randr0{a} libxcb-xfixes0{a} vlc
The following packages will be upgraded:
vlc-nox
The following packages are RECOMMENDED but will NOT be installed:
vlc-plugin-notify vlc-plugin-pulse
1 packages upgraded, 10 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 4,904 kB/5,156 kB of archives. After unpacking 4,706 kB will be used.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
libupnp6 : Conflicts: libupnp3 but 1:1.6.6-5.1 is installed.
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:

Remove the following packages:
1) libupnp3



Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] y
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libsdl-image1.2{a} libtar0{a} libupnp6{a} libva-x11-1{a} libwebp2{a} libxcb-composite0{a} libxcb-keysyms1{a}
libxcb-randr0{a} libxcb-xfixes0{a} vlc
The following packages will be REMOVED:
libupnp3{a}
The following packages will be upgraded:
vlc-nox
The following packages are RECOMMENDED but will NOT be installed:
vlc-plugin-notify vlc-plugin-pulse
1 packages upgraded, 10 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 4,904 kB/5,156 kB of archives. After unpacking 4,329 kB will be used.


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