[TriLUG] Debian Sid/Unstable

[Ric Moore]

On 03/01/2014 04:53 PM, bak wrote:
> I was more saying: why go to jessie for VLC when you can just grab it out of wheezy-backports?


Easy, it didn't work well at all. So, I tried building VLC from source. 
That downloaded much of the Internet, to satisfy it's codecs and 
depends. By the time I was done, I ate up my satellite bandwidth for the 
month. The following month, I just upgraded to Jessie. Now, VLC has all 
the bells and whistles I want.

"What drove you to this?", the gentle reader might ask? The wheezy 
version, again older than dirt, could not open files in the correct 
order, even when the file names were identical and incrementally 
numbered. On a list from 01-foobar.flv to 10-foobar.flv, it would open 
to number five. The newer version offers to 'open multiple files" and 
they play in the correct sort order.

Since I migrated from Ubuntu 13.10 to Wheezy, there was also a bit of 
culture shock. It was like finding only "Hunt The Wumpus" under "Games" 
in your menu bar. <grins> Ric


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..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity.
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