[Pkg-xbmc-maintainers] Bug#683703: Re: Bug#683703: Acknowledgement (xbmc: Video playback fails when VAAPI is enabled and a VAAPI driver is installed)

[Matt Horan]

Balint -

On Wed, Dec 25, 2013 at 06:13:19PM +0100, Bálint Réczey wrote:
> 2013/12/25 Matt Horan <matt at matthoran.com>:
> > I'm running wheezy, and it seems the unstable package dependencies are
> > not provided in that release. Do you have any guess of how much trouble
> > it would be for me to backport the new package, or should I investigate
> > upgrading to unstable?
> >
> > My machine is finally "stable" in my mind, so I'm a bit hesitant to
> > upgrade.
> I think due to the missing dependencies backport to stable is a bit hard. :-(
> xbmc needs libav from unstable which would possibly break other software.
> 
> I guess upgrade to testing or giving testing/unstable a try on a spare
> partition would
> be the easier way.

I upgraded to jessie and the official xbmc package is working great.

Thanks for your help.

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