On Fri, 19 Jun 2020 16:34:45 -0700 "William Morder via trinity-users" trinity-users@lists.pearsoncomputing.net wrote:
Well, so I got it going again, at least operable. I am a hoarder, and in one of my hoards I found some old configuration files for VLC that preserve my settings. I still have some problems playing anything directly from a saved iso, as well as some vobs and mpegs. I checked this with an iso that I created myself (so nothing weird to interfere with playback), and I still have problems with some of them. This doesn't seem right.
After getting rid of any lingering KDE4/5 files, I suddenly realized that VLC had been using KDE theme settings, rather than my TDE settings. (When I first installed Debian, I used a DVD that had made KDE5 one of the default choices, so I had to configure KDE Plasma before I could get TDE to work. Now I have got rid of KDE, but it seems not quite.)
VLC has over a hundred (!) compile-time flags governing different features, and an equally complex dependency tree. Your distro probably flipped a couple of things from "off" to "on", or vice-versa. The KDE5 theme stuff is probably being pulled in by the QT5 support, at a guess. In addition, VLC can pull in ffmpeg, which has its own huge assortment of flags that may have been flipped.
(VLC has one of the most terrifying ebuilds I have ever seen. Now I remember why I stick to mplayer. It saves the terror for its man page.)
E. Liddell
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