====== VLC conflict between debian lenny and debian-multimedia repository ======

Since my upgrade to lenny, my VLC is not working anymore. When I play XVID video files, I can just have sound played but not the video. Error message is : <code>
[00000312] main decoder error: no suitable decoder module for fourcc `XVID'.
VLC probably does not support this sound or video format.
</code>

When I run this command I got a warning on ffmpeg: <code>
vlc -vvv --color --no-plugins-cache --list
...
[00000001] main private warning: cannot load module `/usr/lib/vlc/codec/libffmpeg_plugin.so' (/usr/lib/vlc/codec/libffmpeg_plugin.so: undefined symbol: img_resample)
...
</code>

To fix the problem I had to downgrade to debian lenny versions of ffmpeg libavcodec51 libavdevice52 libavformat52 libavutil49 libpostproc51 and libswscale0 :
<code>sudo apt-get install --reinstall ffmpeg=0.svn20080206-8 libavcodec51=0.svn20080206-8 \
libavdevice52=0.svn20080206-8 libavformat52=0.svn20080206-8 libavutil49=0.svn20080206-8 \
libpostproc51=0.svn20080206-8 libswscale0=0.svn20080206-8</code>

Then I had to remove my ~/.vlc directory content: <code>rm -rf ~/.vlc</code>

Then I was able to watch again my XVID videos!


The bad news is that I'm not able anymore to use 'transcode' from [[http://debian-multimedia.org/|debian-multimedia]] while the problem is not fixed.


~~DISCUSSION~~
{{tag>article computing video codec vlc lenny multimedia transcode xvid ffmpeg debian linux}}