Re: DVD that other computers can't play

["Steve O'Hara-Smith" <steve@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 7 Feb 2010 00:11:27 -0500
Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu> wrote:

> On Saturday 06 February 2010 23:03:55 Pierre Abbat wrote:
> > I'm installing vlc now. The problem appears to be not bad sectors, but a
> > missing codec, though the error message Windows gave was quite cryptic
> > and I had to google it to make sense of it.

	Missing codec - on a DVD ? That's odd DVD's are pretty limited as
to the encodings allowed (MPEG-2 video and a handful of audio options).

> It said there's a vulnerability in kdegraphics, and when I tried to
> upgrade that with pkgsrc, it wiped out my kde installation and failed to
> build. I'm trying to reinstall kde with pkgin.

	Eeek vlc has no dependency on kdegraphics here.

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