MX 17 Repository: The VLC Thread

[zorzi]

I've upgraded to 3.0.8-2mx17+2. Everything seems to work, but I don't get the point of providing a VLC MX package, since VLC Debian package does the job.

Debian's version breaks VLC's hardware-accelerated video decoding on MX, which is pretty important to many users. I take care not to break it with our builds.

Ok. I had missed that point.

[Cristobal]

How do we know it has been upgraded from MX repo or Debian's?

[m_frank]

The version number suffix provides a clue:

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$ apt list vlc -a
Listing... Done
vlc/mx,now 3.0.8-2mx17+2 amd64 [installed]
vlc/oldstable 3.0.8-0+deb9u1 amd64
vlc/oldstable 3.0.6-0+deb9u1 amd64

3.0.8-2mx17+2 = MX

3.0.8-0+deb9u1 = Debian

[Stevo]

Just loaded the test repo but those two do not show as upgradable. Do they go by a different package name?

They are already installed from the main MX repo, and in fact are in the ISO, since the video drivers use those. Our newer versions use libdrm2 instead of libdrm2, and we have a main and test repo version of that:

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$ apt policy libdrm2
libdrm2:
  Installed: 2.4.97-1~mx17+1
  Candidate: 2.4.97-1~mx17+1
  Version table:
 *** 2.4.97-1~mx17+1 500
        500 file:/var/lib/local-apt-repository ./ Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2.4.95-1~mx17+1 500
        500 http://la.mxrepo.com/mx/repo stretch/main amd64 Packages

The first result is in the test repo, but I have that disabled in favor of getting it from my local-apt-repository folder. That's how I test how new packages upgrade after building them.

[Eadwine Rose]

Aha! So these two I have left over are perfectly safe to completely remove?

[Cristobal]

The version number suffix provides a clue:

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$ apt list vlc -a
Listing... Done
vlc/mx,now 3.0.8-2mx17+2 amd64 [installed]
vlc/oldstable 3.0.8-0+deb9u1 amd64
vlc/oldstable 3.0.6-0+deb9u1 amd64

3.0.8-2mx17+2 = MX

3.0.8-0+deb9u1 = Debian

Ah, OK, thanks.

If I remember correctly VLC has been upgraded twice on my system, after checking, the last one is MX.

[fehlix]

With latest 3.0.8-2mx17+2 we appear to have a new dependence on vlc-plugin-samba.
Can we change this to a "Recommends" in order avoid to get install the whole samba bunch,
which I'm not intending to use anyway. Also mentioned here: Update today pulls back in samba-libs due to VLC
Thanks

[Stevo]

I noticed today that upstream changes at YouTube had broken the Youtube streaming feature, but found that patching in the changes for the youtube.lua file from VLC's git repo got it working again, so we have rebuilds with that patch for MX 19 main and in the AHS repo, as well as for MX 17/18 main and its test repo.

The MX 19 versions end with mx19+3 and mx19+3ahs, while the MX 17/18 versions end with mx17+4 and mx17+4test.

[Stevo]

Now updated to 3.0.9.2 in the test repo!

[Stevo]

Updated to 3.11.1-2mx17+1 in main, which incorporates the last two upstream Debian revisions, plus a "youtube.lua" script patched to the current github version. Hopefully, that will fix Youtube playback in VLC unti they break it again.