shrunk video and black&white color

[fabrice.regnier]

Hi all,

Everything is in the title. vlc works but not as well as it should.
I dont know when i broke it (during some update?)

What i've done:
# aptitude purge vlc (and all related packages)
# updatedb and rm all vlc stuff
# aptitude clean / autoclean
# aptitude install vlc

but same result.

I'm runnig debian squeeze with kde4
vlc version 0.9.8a

any idea ?

I must add that kaffeine works ok.

regards,

f.

[fabrice.regnier]

may be it can help but when i vlc -vvvv, i have

swScaler: Palette is not supported as output pixel format
[00000455] swscale scale error: could not init SwScaler and/or allocate memory

regards,

f.

[Joel Roth]

I've got the same problem, running Debian sid.

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dpkg -l | grep -i vlc ii libvlc2 0.9.9a-1 multimedia player and streamer library ii libvlccore0 0.9.9a-1 base library for VLC and its modules ii vlc 0.9.9a-2 multimedia player and streamer ii vlc-data 0.9.9a-1 Common data for VLC ii vlc-nox 0.9.9a-2 multimedia player and streamer (without X support)

[fabrice.regnier]

hi,

this post will help you to solve the problem:

viewtopic.php?f=13&t=60614

regards,

f.

[Joel Roth]

hi,

this post will help you to solve the problem:

viewtopic.php?f=13&t=60614

Thanks. Playback is now working properly for me

[Joel Roth]

I've continued to have the problem described above after further changes to my Debian 'sid' system.

The issue is discussed extensively in the Debian Bug Tracking System.

In this discussion, I found a workaround, if not a solution:

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apt-get install vlc-plugin-sdl vlc -V sdl somefile.avi

I made this setting permanent by editing ~/.config/vlc/vlcrc

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# Video output module (string) vout=sdl

A couple other suggested solutions deserve mention.

One related to video drivers. I didn't pursue this because my video seems to work okay for all other applications tested.

A third proposed solution, which worked for someone, was to re-install vlc after removing debian-multimedia.org from /etc/apt/sources.list. This is not desirable for me, as I prefer to be able to play all possible media types.

Cheers