Bug#671407: vlc-nox does not include /usr/lib/vlc/plugins/codec/libavcodec_plugin.so

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

tags 671407 + wontfix
thanks

On Thu, 03 May 2012 17:29:42 -0400, Paul Dejean <paul at officegps.com>
wrote:
> Dear Maintainer,
> vlc-nox does not include the module provided in
> /usr/lib/vlc/plugins/codec/libavcodec_plugin.so
> This means that to use the features provided by this module, the user
> would need to install the "vlc" package, which they might not want if
> they're running a headless server.

It used to be so that avcodec was in the without-X package. But these
days, avcodec depends on vaapi which depends on X. So avcodec belongs in
the with-X package.

I do not disagree that it severely limits the usability of vlc-nox. But
there is nothing VLC can do about it. It would need changes within lavc.

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