5 Apr
2023
5 Apr
'23
11:52 a.m.
On 4/4/23 22:40, Roger wrote:
On 5/4/23 18:08, Peter P. wrote:
Sorry, took me a bit of thinking to figure out what "DMO" meant. Deb
Multimedia is also known to be disliked by Debian for other reasons.
All I know is upgrades work fine here. What incompatibilities might happen?
Hi,
I am replying to myself here. Strangely™ the error went away after a
reboot. I hope it stays this way. Thanks to everyone for the help!
Peter
Self-resolving issues are the best kind. Also the worst as one may
never find out what happened. Hope it behaves itself in future.
BTW @david - having DMO sources active has been known to cause
incompatibilities with standard Debian packages. It is generally
recommended not to do this.
Even the libdvdcss package is not necessary to obtain
directly from
DMO these days, the Debian libdvd-pkg package will fetch and install it.
I have the libdvd-pkg package installed. What version of the library
does it fetch? Just tried reinstalling it, and my libdvdcss2 version is
unchanged from the DMO version, 1.4.3-dmo1. The libdvd-pkg package
itself says it's version 1.4.2-1-1.
I also have the 1.4.3-dev files installed. Does libdvd-pkg install
those, too?
For what it's worth, the libswresample 4.4.3 is from DMO and works fine
here.
What Debian 11 doesn't offer me is newer versions of some multimedia
applications I use, such as avidmux, Handbrake, K3b, and Kdenlive.
Although I see there are some version overlaps between DMO and
bullseye-backports, but not enough to make eliminating DMO an option for me.
Debian has also been uncooperative with another application I use,
Rosegarden. Debian 11 insists that the current version I have compiled
and installed from source (v22.12) needs to be "upgraded" to the version
in the repository (v20.12, two releases behind). Sorry, not acceptable.
Finally, in the past (on different systems) I've run combinations of
stable, sid and experimental - so having only Debian and DMO is an
improvement. :)
Personally, IMO, these kinds of gyrations about mixing repositories
wouldn't be necessary if Debian made the effort to keep up with
application versions.
Ideas?
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