i did that as i wrote in my previous reply...i don't know what might have be wrong...maybe it has to do something with ffmpeg?? any more ideas would be greatfully appreciated...thanks...<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote"> On 03/12/2007, <b class="gmail_sendername">Andrey Falko</b> <<a href="mailto:ma3oxuct@gmail.com">ma3oxuct@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> You compiled with the following USE variables "by adding the line <pre>media-video/vlc dvd ffmpeg mpeg mad<br>wxwindows aac dts a52 ogg flac theora oggvorbis matroska freetype<br>bidi xv svga gnutls stream vlm httpd cdda vcd cdio live</pre> <p>to the file <i>"/etc/portage/package.use"</i>. This will give you a fully functioning VLC. Be very careful if you decide to disable some of these USE flags. You can loose more functionality than you might expect."</p>Right?<br><br>If yes, then I'm out of ideas except to contact vlc devs.<div><span class="e" id="q_1169d9b365686e7f_1"><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"> On Dec 2, 2007 7:56 PM, Danis Petkakis < <a href="mailto:dpetka2001@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">dpetka2001@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> just compiled the latest unstable version but still the problem remains...any other suggestions?? <div><div></div><div><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 03/12/2007, <b class="gmail_sendername">Danis Petkakis</b> <<a href="mailto:dpetka2001@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> dpetka2001@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">well i don't have the latest version of vlc compiled as suggested from the link you gave me so i will add vlc in portage.keywords for now and then compile the latest unstable version of it...hope that should solve my problems...i will post back for results...thanks... <div><span><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 03/12/2007, <b class="gmail_sendername">Andrey Falko</b> <<a href="mailto:ma3oxuct@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> ma3oxuct@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <span>On Dec 2, 2007 6:16 PM, Danis Petkakis <<a href="mailto:dpetka2001@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">dpetka2001@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <span>hi there i have some files in .mkv and format and would like to to view them using vlc...the problem is that there is only the sound in the background...by that i mean that i can only hear for example the music that plays in the background and not the people talking in the movie...subtitles and video are all displayed correctly...i just cannot hear the people talking...when i watch the files in kaffeine and kmplayer i have no problem at all...what might be the problem with vlc?? thanks in advance...</span> </blockquote></div><br><br></span>My inclination is that it is a vlc specific bug....check this page to see if you have it compiled with the use flag listed there: <a href="http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-gentoo.html" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-gentoo.html </a><br><br>If you have it compiled with all of those use flags, then I'd email vlc at <a href="http://video-lan.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">video-lan.org</a>: <a href="http://www.videolan.org/support/lists.html" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> http://www.videolan.org/support/lists.html </a> <br> </blockquote></div><br> </span></div></blockquote></div><br> </div></div></blockquote></div><br> </span></div></blockquote></div><br>