Freeplayer has to be patched to work with VLC 0.9.x

[Cédric Baudoin]

Binary package hint: freeplayer

Description: Ubuntu 8.10
Release: 8.10

freeplayer:
  Installé : 20070531+dfsg.1-1
  Candidat : 20070531+dfsg.1-1

The vlc version in ubuntu 8.10 is 0.9.x and does not work with freeplayer (transcode issues as far as I see on various forum)
Video is almost broken or extremely slow
Can freeplayer package include a correct version of vlc (0.8.6 as in ubuntu 8.04) instead of relying on the standard vlc ?

[Alex10336 (ap10336)]

This might answer solution in french:

http://www.freeplayer.org/portal.php?article=11659

[mavosaure (mavosaure)]

As reported, Freeplayer isn't able to work with VLC 0.9.x (Intrepid and newer release of Ubuntu).

As described on Ubuntu-fr.org (http://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/freeplayer), the workaround is :

Edit the file : '/usr/bin/vlc-fbx'.

Delete "–wx-systray" from the file

Replace : –config="~/.vlc/vlcrc-fbx"
by : –config="~/.config/vlc/vlcrc"

Then install libavcodec-unstripped-51 for Intrepid ;
and libavcodec-unstripped-52 for Jaunty.

Maybe is it possible to commit a patch?

[Leo (leorolla)]

This bug affects me too.