dibl, sorry for the late reply
@piper, two questions.
(1) Is it a multiarch system?
(2) Are the gstreamer plugins installed?
Here, vlc is not installable for the same reason as above. Kaffeine is sufficient for my purposes.
gstreamer-plugins default with non-multiarch using xorg with kde-standard as the only package being built as I type this, 2 days ago I used kde-full (works well for me)
libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0 libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0 libgstreamer0.10-0 libgstreamer1.0-0
I had a nightmare doing a dist-upgrade on my main box (muilti-arch) , like devil said, a few hours, I am rolling now, and I think a build is better than fixing a dist-upgrade.
The transition is not over, so don't really expect a "official" build any time soon.
You best know what your doing to do a du and survive
I had
963 upgraded, 89 newly installed, 83 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
Need to get 865 MB of archives.
After this operation, 198 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Using xorg, kde-standard without kde-next builds fine and installs in 3 minutes, those with ssd's possibly a lot less