CFT: vlc 2.0.8 (with two PRs applied)

[Gary Jennejohn]

On Thu, 29 Aug 2013 19:36:01 +0200
Juergen Lock <nox at jelal.kn-bremen.de> wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 05:48:40PM +0200, Gary Jennejohn wrote:
> > On Wed, 28 Aug 2013 22:26:16 +0200
> > Juergen Lock <nox at jelal.kn-bremen.de> wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi!
> > > 
> > >  It's this time again, there's a new vlc version out and I'd like to
> > > update the port:
> > > 
> > > 	svn co https://svn.redports.org/nox/multimedia/vlc/
> > > 
> > >  I have applied two PRs as well, ports/181596 and ports/181610, so
> > > livemedia and ncurses should work better now as well:
> > > 
> > > 	http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=181596
> > > 	Add subtitle, video, and audio track scrolling to VLC's ncurses.c module
> > > 
> > > 	http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=181610
> > > 	livemedia breakage
> > > 
> > >  Please give this update a good testing again, I've added the other
> > > changes from vlc's NEWS file below.
> > > 
> > 
> > Dumps core every time I try to view a TS container, which is all I tried
> > out.  I used the same setings as for an older version which worked.
> > 
> Hmm. :(  I tested ts from vdr (recordings as well as via streamdev,
> hd as well as sd) and they still played; only (also ts) recordings
> from my (old, sd) dreambox don't play with the default demuxer
> (avformat demuxer works for those but less so for others.)
> But that also was true with 2.0.7, and dreambox recordings don't
> crash vlc, just nothing plays.
> 
>  So I suppose we need a backtrace, preferably with vlc built with DEBUG
> knob enabled.  And if you can put a problem file online I suppose
> that might also help.
> 

Wouldn't you know it - I just reinstalled it with DEBUG enabled
and it works.

It also now works without DEBUG.

Hmm, I installed a new world and kernel yesterday, maybe that has
something to with it.

So, one report of success.

-- 
Gary Jennejohn