Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2010 14:46:17 -0700 From: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> To: jsa@wickedmachine.net Cc: Xin LI <delphij@delphij.net>, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: VLC does not support the audio or video format "XVID". Message-ID: <4BCB7DA9.40105@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <4BCAAB3F.5020407@FreeBSD.org> References: <4BCAAB3F.5020407@FreeBSD.org>
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On 04/17/10 23:48, Doug Barton wrote: > I recently updated -current, and all of my ports, and am now getting the > following message when I try to watch an avi file encoded with xvid: > > No suitable decoder module: > VLC does not support the audio or video format "XVID". Unfortunately > there is no way for you to fix this. > > Recompiling vlc, xvid, and numerous other things didn't help. Any > suggestions? I have found the problem, it's zlib. In r206708-9 delphij updated zlib to version 1.2.4.3 and did some magic with the symbols. I just regressed my system to r206707 and now the same vlc does xvid just fine. When I booted the new -current yesterday (after the libz changes) I had to rebuild and reinstall openbox and libxml2 because the latter had some sort of unresolved symbol problem related to libz. When I regressed the system today and had to do the same thing I got this error: /usr/local/lib/libxml2.so: undefined reference to `gzopen@ZLIB_1.2.4.0' (Note, this libxml2 that generated this error was compiled against the NEW libz, so it's not the error that I was seeing previously.) In looking over the things in /usr/lib that may be related I see that gpac-libgpac-0.4.5_4,1 has the gzopen symbol, and I did not recompile that when I was trying to get vlc to work last night so it may be the magic bullet. My plan at this point is to re-upgrade to the latest -current, record the error I get from libxml2 when recompiling openbox, and then try recompiling stuff until I find the one that does the trick. Worst case scenario I do 'portmaster -f vlc' but that constitutes 175 ports, which would take a while. Doug -- ... and that's just a little bit of history repeating. -- Propellerheads Improve the effectiveness of your Internet presence with a domain name makeover! http://SupersetSolutions.com/
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