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FS#37574 - [VLC] vlc-2.1.0-4-x86_64 - vlc-2.1.0-5-x86_64

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Joe (jrsmith0188) - Friday, 01 November 2013, 03:18 GMT
Last edited by Giovanni Scafora (giovanni) - Tuesday, 10 December 2013, 16:40 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Giovanni Scafora (giovanni)
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:

After upgrade from vlc-2.1.0-3-x86_64 to vlc-2.1.0-4-x86_64/vlc-2.1.0-5-x86_64, soft subs from .mkv files fail to load.

VLC give error:

No suitable decoder module:
VLC does not support the audio or video format "ssa ". Unfortunately there is no way for you to fix this.


Additional info: Downgrading back to vlc-2.1.0-3-x86_64 allow soft subs to load and funtion as expected.

tested with:

extra/ffmpeg-compat 1:0.10.9-1
extra/ffmpeg 1:2.1-2

Steps to reproduce:

grab a .mkv file with embedded soft subs (eg: REDLINE http://www.nyaa.se/?page=view&tid=236044) open with vlc-2.1.0-3-x86_64, then upgrade to vlc-2.1.0-4-x86_64 or vlc-2.1.0-5-x86_64 and attempt to open and load subtitles.

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Closed by  Giovanni Scafora (giovanni)
Tuesday, 10 December 2013, 16:40 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Comment by Brian (shvelven) - Wednesday, 20 November 2013, 06:53 GMT
I can confirm this—did a pacman -Syu today causing vlc to upgrade from 2.0.8 to 2.1.1-2. SRT subtitles worked, but SSA did not. However, in my case, downgrading back to 2.0.8 didn't fix the issue. I got the same message whether I was using 2.0.8 or 2.1.1-2.

I then tried the following:
* deleting my ~/.cache/vlc/ and ~/.config/vlc/ directories
* running 「/usr/lib/vlc/vlc-cache-gen -f usr/lib/vlc/plugins」, then reinstalling vlc (suggested on the arch wiki entry for VLC)

None of those fixed my problem with 2.0.8. However, I then tried upgrading vlc back to 2.1.1-2, and the subtitles work now. Perhaps one of those may help you.

As for me, well, I still have another problem with the latest vlc. Because of another, unrelated bug (see https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/9938), I have to stay on 2.0.8. It seems like upgrading my system has caused a dependency to upgrade to a version not supported by the old version of vlc. I'll try downgrading the dependencies to the last version I had that worked, and if I find out which is causing subtitles to break I will let you know.

EDIT: Removed BBCode, since these commens don't support it (whoops).

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