Can one of the kind developers please update the Dapper repositories with VLC 0.8.6? Thanks.
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Re: VLC 0.8.6 please?
While your waiting for that you might try downloading from here http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-ubuntu.html
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Re: VLC 0.8.6 please?
500 Oops I gave the wrong link here it is http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
download the source and get it compiled [easy instructions found here http://monkeyblog.org/ubuntu/installing/]
and here is the screenshot of the final product
http://www.filehive.com/i.php?i=0202/vlc.jpg
Unless someone knows of an easier way that would be my last option. Hope this helps in some way
Cheers!
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Re: VLC 0.8.6 please?
Well after actually testing out the application here is what I have found.
Although running in Dapper it doesn't seem to work properly (I should have done it before but I mainly use mplayer and kaffiene) But the 0.8.4 version does work fine at least with the videos I tested it on.
On a pc running Edgy I found that the 0.8.6 version is in the default repositories and also seems to work fine. And I didn't bother trying 0.8.4 on that one.
So it seems you have two choices.......(Drum Roll)
1) Either continue using 0.8.4 on Dapper since Dapper has the Long Term Support maintaining packages that are stable
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2) Upgrade to Edgy so you can use the 0.8.6 version since Edgy was meant to use "bleeding edge" software and packages might not be that stable--although I haven't seen problems as of yet.
Personal Note = If you do decide to upgrade I would suggest to do a clean install.
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