VLC is capable of opening Flash videos, but is not registered as a handler for it

[Sveinung Kvilhaugsvik]

Binary package hint: vlc

VLC is capable of opening Flash videos, but is not registered as a handler for it.

[Sveinung Kvilhaugsvik (kvilhaugsvik)]

reported upstreams: http://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-devel/2008-August/048830.html

[Sveinung Kvilhaugsvik (kvilhaugsvik)]

Here is a quickly made debdiff.
- I did not change debian/vlc.mime since shared-mime-info has the mime
type for flv
- I may have overlooked things
- against the current (vlc_0.8.6.release.h-1ubuntu1) version in Intrepid.
- since I could not find documentation for the preferred numbering of
patches in debian/patches the patch has no number in the name
- VLC seems to have a dependency problem, so I could not test this in
pbuilder. Since all this changes it a line in a desktop file, and I
have tested it by doing the modification by hand on the installed
desktop file, I think it will work when the problem is fixed.
- It may have other problems as well. This is the first time I have
done anything with quilt, so be even more careful than normal.

[Sveinung Kvilhaugsvik (kvilhaugsvik)]

Applied upstreams in revision 7e3eb6484a1f3f9eafdf15e6e386b76a789a2a97 See http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/browser/share/applications

[Sveinung Kvilhaugsvik (kvilhaugsvik)]

fixed released upstreams (0.9.2)

[Sveinung Kvilhaugsvik (kvilhaugsvik)]

0.9.2-1 is now in Debian experimental.

[Sveinung Kvilhaugsvik (kvilhaugsvik)]

Marking as "In Progress" since it seems like 0.9.2 (that includes my patch) will be uploaded to Intrepid. (See bug 270404)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package vlc - 0.9.2-1ubuntu1

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vlc (0.9.2-1ubuntu1) intrepid; urgency=low

  * New Upstream Release, exception granted by
      - dktrkranz, norsetto, Hobbsee (via irc). LP: #270404

  Changes done in ubuntu:

  * add libxul-dev to build-depends
  * make sure that vlc is build against libxul in configure. This doesn't
    change anything in the package, but makes it more robust if building
    in an 'unclean' chroot or when modifying the package.
  * debian/control: make Vcs-* fields point to the motumedia branch
  * add libx264-dev and libass-dev to build-depends
    LP: #210354, #199870
  * actually enable libass support by passing --enable-libass to configure
  * enable libdca: add libdca-dev to build depends and --enable-libdca
  * install the x264 plugin.

  Changes already in the pkg-multimedia branch in debian:

  * don't install usr/share/vlc/mozilla in debian/mozilla-plugin-vlc.install
  * new upstream .desktop file now registers flash video mimetype LP: #261567
  * add Xb-Npp-Applications to mozilla-plugin-vlc
  * remove duplicate entries in debian/vlc-nox.install

vlc (0.9.2-1) experimental; urgency=low

  [ Christophe Mutricy ]
  * New upstream release
    + Soname changed
    + Bugs fixed upstream: Closes: #487646, #298150, #325069, #392292,
      #458004, #470903, #458004, #423121
    + new upstream fixes various crasher bugs reported in ubuntu:
      LP: #189575, #113927, #103741, #111615, #107899, #112076, #198916, 221428,
          #91679, #96978, #123589, #133528, #231621, #259025
    + plays files with '+' in its name, LP: #239431, #217305
    + New packages: libvlccore0, libvlccore-dev, vlc-plugin-pulse
     (Closes: #471069)
    + Build-depends on libswsale-dev, libshout3-dev, libxpm-dev,
      zlib1g-dev, liblua5.1-0-dev, libschroedinger-dev, libtag1-dev,
      libqt4-dev, libqt4-dev-tools and pkg-config. (Closes: #461324)
    + time display no longer incomplete, LP: #193445
    + fixed volume bar behavior, LP: #250041
    + shout support closes LP: #127594, #84098,
    + Install new modules:
      - vlc-nox: alphamask, blendbench, bluescreen, canvas, cc, cdg, chain,
        colorthres, croppadd, dynamicoverlay, erase, faad, gaussianblur, grain,
        inhibit, lua, memcpy*, mmap, osd_parser, puzzle, remoteosd, rtmp,
        schroedinger, sharpen, stats, subusf, t140, telepathy, v4l2, vmem
      - vlc: qt4
      - vlc-plugin-jack: access_jack
    + Distribute the .pc for libvlc and vlc-plugin (Closes: #289507)
    + Remove wx interface and glide plugin as they've been dropped by upstream
      LP: #205325, #88487, #90603, #150380
    + The Python and java bindings are no longer part of the upstream tarballs
      (Closes: #469011)
    + Temporarly disable libdca module until a pkg with the new
      API get in unstable
    + Delete or refresh patches
    + New patches:
        - 052_as-needed taken from bug #347650 to teach libtool about
          -Wl,--as-needed
  * Install the skins DTD and the default skins it's only 113kB
  * Improve watch file
  * Add a vlc-data package for /usr/share (13 MB)
  * Add a vlc-dbg package (Closes: #491564)
  * Sort vlc.install and vlc-nox.inst...