[PLUG] VLC 3.0

[Rigel Hope]

(Hopefully this is not a repeat)

Avi and mkv are not formats, exactly. They are container standards.
An avi can be encoded with any number of algorithms, from mpeg2 to indeo to
h264. Same with mkv, but mkv has a lot more payload options, is my
impression - so that you can have multiple audio tracks, subtitles, etc.

So, I forget which gstreamer utils help you with this, but you can look at
that information with that tool suite. There's probably others too, I just
dont know em.
And bottom line is, its less likely that VLC can't read the container
format, and more likely that the codec plugin isnt installed.

On Feb 11, 2018 5:01 PM, "John Jason Jordan" <johnxj at gmx.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 11 Feb 2018 12:31:30 -0800
> Tomas Kuchta <tomas.kuchta.lists at gmail.com> dijo:
>
> >Regarding you Snap container not playing .avi. - This is equivalent to
> >not having compiled VLC with .avi support.
>
> It also wouldn't play .mkv files. And .avi and .mkv are the two most
> popular formats for movies and other videos. What were they thinking?
>
> >There is nothing you can do, short of compiling it yourself and
> >creating own .snap or .deb
> >I'd wait to Ubuntu guy to make standard .deb that should fix it.
> >Alternatively, check if Ubuntu has snap repo - you could install both
> >versions - Ubuntu and VLC, or more of them and use each one to play the
> >stuff which works in each .snap version.
> >Welcome to the world of Snap packages - more freedom for the creator
> >projects to not to work with distributions, more freedom for the users
> >to install any .snap they can find anywhere - almost as great as
> >Windows. Welcome back to the dependency hell - this time though, it
> >should not break the system.
>
> I installed it because I use VLC for several hours every day, so
> getting the latest and greatest (3.0) was very enticing. However, I
> later checked out what the new version does that 2.2.6 does not and it
> turns out that it enables Chromecast (which I have no use for), and it
> changes the icons and moves them around so I can't find them. Bah. I
> have gone back to 2.2.6 and I will stay there.
>
> As for snap, it is quite possibly the wave of the future, but
> definitely not yet ready for prime time. Here is a web page explaining
> it in more detail:
>
>         https://itsfoss.com/use-snap-packages-ubuntu-16-04/
>
> And yes, there is apparently already an Ubuntu snap repository,
> although it has only a few packages so far, Interestingly, one of them
> is the core, even on my laptop with 14.04.5:
>
>         $ snap list
>         Name  Version  Rev   Developer  Notes
>         core  16-2.30  3887  canonical  core
>
> For those curious about snap I recommend reading the above itsfoss.com
> web site. Even I understood it. :)
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