Re: Viewing old video? alternative to xine?

On Thu, Sep 25, 2025 at 3:26 AM Simon J. Gerraty <sjg@juniper.net> wrote:
> Tomek CEDRO <tomek@cedro.info> wrote:
> > > I'm having trouble playing some old video clips with xine-0.99.14_5
> > > on 14.2-RELEASE-p1
> > > kdenlive handles all of the below just fine, but I'm looking for a
> > > simple player to use to help catalog before editing.
> >
> > VLC usually plays anything even broken files, it has console interface
> > too, and supports various outputs, I even used this to live stream.
> > MPV may not have as big codec coverage as vlc but can play in console
> > using drm.
>
> Thanks!  Will give it a try.
>
> Hmm why would adding vlc cause ImageMagik and kdenlive to be removed.
> Not updated, but removed.
> I can see this may cause a lot of churn.

Probably a glitch after recent update of pkg and latest packages set,
should not happen, I saw something like this recently in 2.3.1 where
some packages used exclusive dependencies, after build+install
problematic packages from ports problem was gone also in pkg. You may
want to reinstall IMagick and KDEnLive from pkg and then make install
vlc from ports as vlc is the smallest part :-)

Btw VLC also allows you to easily transcode videos to different a/v
codec and container which may come handy too :-)

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