Upgrading to 2.0.5 would also fix bug 6115 (audio sync problems with pulseaudio).

CC: (none) => LpSolit
Blocks: (none) => 6115

(In reply to Frédéric Buclin from comment #1)
> Upgrading to 2.0.5 would also fix bug 6115 (audio sync problems with
> pulseaudio).

Please try vlc-2.0.6-0.1 from core/updates_testing | tainted/updates_testing :

http://pkgsubmit.mageia.org/

Regards,

-- Shlomi Fish

Yes, the sync problem seems to be fixed with VLC 2.0.6. :)

I upgraded to VLC 2.0.6 and When I play an AVI, arose box errors:

"Potential PulseAudio version problem:
PulseAudio is streaming with an excessive latency. Sound may be lost or quality degraded.
To address that issue, upgrade the PulseAudio daemon to version 3.0, or disable the alternate sampling rate in its configuration."

I'm also having problems with encoding of subtitles. I've tried all options that VLC offers and all accented words appear (?) In place of the accented letter. Happened to anyone? How to solve it?

I am using the VLC to repository Tainted Updates Testing;
I ran VLC with -- verbose to see the error, put down the principal errors:

[0x7fb4ec004108] pulse audio output warning: too early by 46084 us
[0x7fb4ec004108] pulse audio output warning: too early by 41638 us
[0x7fb4e4c39758] subsdec decoder error: failed to convert subtitle encoding.
Try manually setting a character-encoding before you open the file.
[0x7fb4e4c39758] subsdec decoder error: failed to convert subtitle encoding.
Try manually setting a character-encoding before you open the file.

@Andreson Carvalho: do these problems also happen with the older vlc? Pulseaudio is a can of worms and I always disable it, because it never works properly.

With VLC 2.0.3 the error box never opened. However, I did downgrade to VLC 2.0.3 to test with the same file. Also had trouble with character-encoding subtitle:

[0x7f9d20004108] main audio output warning: PTS is out of range (-31989), dropping buffer
[0x7f9d20004108] pulse audio output warning: underflow
[0x7f9d20004108] main audio output warning: PTS is out of range (-13982), dropping buffer
[0x7f9d20004108] main audio output warning: PTS is out of range (-37910), dropping buffer
[0x7f9cfc000d58] main video output warning: picture is too late to be displayed (missing 40 ms)
[0x7f9d14c1f978] subsdec decoder error: failed to convert subtitle encoding.
Try manually setting a character-encoding before you open the file.
[0x7f9d14c1f978] subsdec decoder error: failed to convert subtitle encoding.
Try manually setting a character-encoding before you open the file.

When I use smplayer it has the option Ocidental(ISO-8859-1) and the accents are correct. However, VLC offers only Default(Windows-1252) that does not work accents. It takes some package or configuration to work (Windows-1252) in Linux?

(In reply to Frédéric Buclin from comment #3)
> Yes, the sync problem seems to be fixed with VLC 2.0.6. :)

I take that back. After rebooting my PC, the sync problem is back, and the error mentioned in comment 4 is thrown when playback starts. :(

This is crazy. When the "Contrôle du volume PulseAudio" panel is open, the playback is in sync when a new song starts. If I close the panel, the playback is out of sync again when the next song starts. If I reopen the panel, the playback is in sync again for the next song, etc... No need to restart VLC, just let it loop over songs. 100% reproducible.

So my workaround for now is to leave the PulseAudio Volume Control panel minimized, but this is a weird workaround.

VLC 2.0.6 is in the update_testing repo (core and tainted)

but it doesn't appear in the list of Current update candidates :
http://mageia.madb.org/tools/updates

You might have more testers if it is in this list ...

CC: (none) => philippedidier

Can I push the VLC-2.0.6 update to Mageia 2?

Regards,

-- Shlomi Fish

It has to be assigned to qa-bugs@ml.mageia.org before qa will
test the update.  Once it's been assigned, then it have to be
tested on both i586 and x86_64, and in this case, both with
the release version, and the tainted version, before the update
can be validated, and qa will then request the update to be pushed.

CC: (none) => davidwhodgins

Assigning to QA per https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9155#c13 . Please test.

Assignee: shlomif => qa-bugs

Reminder to other testers, this update has to be tested on both arches,
both the core updates testing version, and the tainted updates testing
verison.

Shlomi could you add an advisory please and list rpms & srpms so nothing gets missed, thanks.

https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Example_update_advisory_announcement

I think we can use the description, as the advisory. The srpms are
vlc-2.0.6-0.1.mga2.src.rpm
vlc-2.0.6-0.1.mga2.tainted.src.rpm

rpm packages ...
lib64vlc5
lib64vlccore5
lib64vlc-devel
svlc
vlc
vlc-plugin-aa
vlc-plugin-bonjour
vlc-plugin-common
vlc-plugin-dv
vlc-plugin-flac
vlc-plugin-fluidsynth
vlc-plugin-gme
vlc-plugin-gnutls
vlc-plugin-jack
vlc-plugin-kate
vlc-plugin-libass
vlc-plugin-libnotify
vlc-plugin-lirc
vlc-plugin-lua
vlc-plugin-mod
vlc-plugin-mpc
vlc-plugin-ncurses
vlc-plugin-opengl
vlc-plugin-projectm
vlc-plugin-pulse
vlc-plugin-schroedinger
vlc-plugin-sdl
vlc-plugin-shout
vlc-plugin-speex
vlc-plugin-theora
vlc-plugin-twolame
vlc-plugin-upnp
vlc-plugin-zvbi

Whiteboard: feedback => (none)

Testing complete on Mageia 2 x86-64 for both the Core Updates Testing version,
and the Tainted updates Testing  version.

Whiteboard: (none) => MGA2-64-OK

Testing complete on Mageia 2 i586, Core and Tainted.

Could someone from the sysadmin team push the srpm
vlc-2.0.6-0.1.mga2.src.rpm
from Mageia 2 Core Updates Testing to Core Updates and the srpm
vlc-2.0.6-0.1.mga2.tainted.src.rpm
from Mageia 2 Tainted Updates Testing to Tainted Updates.

Advisory: Vlc upgrade for bug fixes.

2.0.5 fixes around a hundreds of bugs, and adds around 100 commits on top of 2.0.4, fixing 50 bugs.

With faster decoding on multi-core, GPU, and mobile hardware and the ability to open more formats, notably professional, HD and 10bits codecs, 2.0 was a major upgrade for VLC.

2.0.5 is an important update that fixes some regressions of the 2.0.x branch of VLC.

2.0.5 introduces an important number of fixes for MKV, SWF, AIFF, RTSP, subtitles and encoding.

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/releases/2.0.5.html

2.0.4 is a major update that fixes a lot of regressions of the 2.0.x branch of VLC.
2.0.4 introduces an important number of fixes and improvements for all playback, notably for Blu-Ray, DVD, HLS, Ogg and MKV files; but also for Youtube, Vimeo, Koreus and Soundcloud.
2.0.4 adds Opus codec support, including multichannel ones and streams, and MSS playback through DMO libraries.
2.0.4 fixes numerous issues, including audio device selection, Qt and Mac OS interface, security issues and Windows wallpaper mode...
With faster decoding on multi-core, GPU, and mobile hardware and the ability to open more formats, notably professional, HD and 10bits codecs, 2.0 was a major upgrade for VLC.
2.0.4 fixes around a hundreds of bugs, and adds more than 300 commits on top of 2.0.3.

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/releases/2.0.4.html

https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9155

Whiteboard: MGA2-64-OK => MGA2-64-OK MGA2-32-OK

Sorry, forgot the validated tag. See comment 19 for srpms and advisory.

Keywords: (none) => validated_update
CC: (none) => sysadmin-bugs

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGAA-2013-0029.html

Status: ASSIGNED => RESOLVED
CC: (none) => boklm
Resolution: (none) => FIXED