VLC 0.8.4.debian-1ubuntu6- h264 support is broken

[mickeywikey]

Binary package hint: vlc

Any h264 movie being played on this release(VLC 0.8.4.debian-1ubuntu6) shows distorted video.

This is a known problem, the VideoLan developers are aware of it as well.

(Im writing this report 'partly' on request of the VLC developers)

Its quite a big issue as Ubuntu users cannot enjoy the power of h264, on the most powerfull video player/server there currently is.

(If questions remain, feel free to contact me anytime.)

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

There is a backport of the newer edgy package, and earlier this morning I uploaded an even newer edgy source package.

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

When the newer package (0.8.6-svn20060918.debian-1ubuntu4) is available in Edgy tomorrow, please confirm whether the symptom remains valid.

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

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Format: 1.7
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 01:31:36 -0400
Source: vlc
Binary: wxvlc vlc-plugin-sdl vlc-plugin-ggi vlc-plugin-alsa vlc-plugin-glide vlc-plugin-esd mozilla-plugin-vlc vlc libvlc0 vlc-plugin-arts vlc-nox vlc-plugin-svgalib libvlc0-dev
Architecture: source
Version: 0.8.6-svn20061012.debian-1ubuntu1
Distribution: edgy
Urgency: high
Maintainer: MOTU Media Team <email address hidden>
Changed-By: Daniel T Chen <email address hidden>
Description:
 libvlc0 - multimedia player and streamer library
 libvlc0-dev - development files for VLC
 mozilla-plugin-vlc - multimedia plugin for web browsers based on VLC
 vlc - multimedia player and streamer
 vlc-nox - multimedia player and streamer (without X support)
 vlc-plugin-alsa - dummy transitional package
 vlc-plugin-arts - aRts audio output plugin for VLC
 vlc-plugin-esd - Esound audio output plugin for VLC
 vlc-plugin-ggi - GGI video output plugin for VLC
 vlc-plugin-glide - Glide video output plugin for VLC
 vlc-plugin-sdl - SDL video and audio output plugin for VLC
 vlc-plugin-svgalib - SVGAlib video output plugin for VLC
 wxvlc - dummy transitional package
Closes: 365239 388332 391308 391739 392207
Changes:
 vlc (0.8.6-svn20061012.debian-1ubuntu1) edgy; urgency=low
 .
   * Merge from Debian unstable, remaining Ubuntu changes:
     - debian/control: Don't build-depend on libtwolame-dev, a newer
       version of libcaca-dev, or linux-kernel-headers (Ubuntu Edgy
       does not have them),
     - debian/patches/001_1008snap.{fixes,translations}.diff: Remove,
       this is a new upstream version, fixes FTBFS on translations,
     - debian/rules: Use Ubuntu-specific configure options (firefox).
   * New upstream snapshot fixes wxvlc not stopping when 'close
     button' is clicked (Closes Ubuntu: #54630).
   * New upstream snapshot has more robust x264 support
     (Closes: Ubuntu #62217).
   * Segfault when using HTTP interface was fixed in
     0.8.6-svn20060918.debian-1ubuntu4 (Closes Ubuntu: #63833).
   * New upstream snapshot should resolve issues with skins2/wxw
     interfaces (Closes: Ubuntu #64975).
 .
 vlc (0.8.6-svn20061012.debian-1) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * New upstream SVN snapshot.
   * Upstream fixed the BadWindow request issue (Closes: #392207).
 .
 vlc (0.8.6-svn20061008.debian-1) unstable; urgency=high
 .
   * New upstream SVN snapshot. Fixes a heap smashing bug.
   * debian/control:
     + Build-depend on libgtk2.0-dev to work around #388521 (Closes: #391739).
     + Replace XS-X-Vcs-Svn with -XS-Vcs-Svn.
 .
   * debian/patches/020_notify.diff:
     + Fix notify support. Thanks to Christophe Mutricy.
 .
 vlc (0.8.6-svn20061001.debian-4) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * Build-depend on libnotify and explicitly activate the libnotify plugin
     (Closes: #391308).
   * Re-enable DV support. libraw1394 is not waiting for us anyway.
 .
 vlc (0.8.6-svn20061001.debian-2) unstable; urgency=high
 .
   * Temporarily disable DV support because the libraw1394 transition does
     not look like it will happen soon.
 .
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