ports/115428: multimedia/ffmpeg & multimedia/vlc: fix ffmpeg support in VLC

[Mars G. Miro]

The following reply was made to PR ports/115428; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Mars G. Miro" <marsgmiro at gmail.com>
To: "Thierry Thomas" <thierry at freebsd.org>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit at freebsd.org, bug-followup at freebsd.org, 
	edwin at freebsd.org, jonc at chen.org.nz
Subject: Re: ports/115428: multimedia/ffmpeg & multimedia/vlc: fix ffmpeg support in VLC
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 00:17:08 +0800

 On 8/12/07, Mars G. Miro <marsgmiro at gmail.com> wrote:
 > On 8/12/07, Thierry Thomas <thierry at freebsd.org> wrote:
 > > On Sun 12 aug 07 at 12:30:42 +0200, Mars G. Miro <marsgmiro at gmail.com>
 > >  wrote:
 > > > Hi there,
 > >
 > > Hello,
 > >
 > > >  Does this fffmpeg fix fix the problem describe at
 > > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-multimedia/2007-August/007268.html
 > > > ? I'll see if I can test the patch w/in a couple of days, and report
 > > > back.
 > >
 > > Yes, this is exactly the same problem: if you try to watch a video
 > > stream with VLC, and ffmpeg is not usable, you get a message like:
 > >
 > > main decoder error: no suitable decoder module for fourcc `xxx'.
 > > VLC probably does not support this sound or video format.
 > >
 > > xxx being the requested module.
 > >
 >
 > Great!
 >
 > /me scrambles to get pkg buildbox up ...
 >
 > Thanks ;-)
 >
 
 Yes, this fix does indeed fix the problem above ;-)
 
 Thanks!
 
 
 > > Regards,
 > > --
 > > Th. Thomas.
 > >
 >
 >
 
 
 cheers
 mars