19 Jun
2020
19 Jun
'20
11:34 p.m.
On Friday 19 June 2020 11:17:22 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
Anno domini 2020 Fri, 19 Jun 11:03:09 -0700
William Morder via trinity-users scripsit:
Sorry for the delay in responding. Sometimes I get tired of fighting against
the machine.
;-)
Well, so I got it going again, at least operable. I am a hoarder, and in one
of my hoards I found some old configuration files for VLC that preserve my
settings. I still have some problems playing anything directly from a saved
iso, as well as some vobs and mpegs. I checked this with an iso that I
created myself (so nothing weird to interfere with playback), and I still
have problems with some of them. This doesn't seem right.
I did find out something interesting, though. I have purged everything KDE4/5,
as well as any traces of MATE or LXDE or whatever else, and even after
purging I still keep finding KDE4/5 krap. It is like being in an abusive
relationship. My old desktop doesn't want to let me go, and keeps trying to
control me even after I have emotionally moved on to a better desktop.
After getting rid of any lingering KDE4/5 files, I suddenly realized that VLC
had been using KDE theme settings, rather than my TDE settings. (When I first
installed Debian, I used a DVD that had made KDE5 one of the default choices,
so I had to configure KDE Plasma before I could get TDE to work. Now I have
got rid of KDE, but it seems not quite.)
So I want to believe that I have it almost rebuilt as I like, but we'll see.
At the moment, no errors messages to report, but it's still not running quite
right.
Whenever I can do a fresh installation on a new SSD, I will try to build a new
machine as GNU/Linux Devuan with TDE from the bottom up.
Bill
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On Friday 19 June 2020 10:21:32 Dr. Nikolaus
Klepp wrote:
Can you start vlc from commandline and post the error message - if any?
Anno domini 2020 Thu, 18 Jun 15:19:49 -0700
William Morder via trinity-users scripsit:
Hi Nik!
No problem, as others jumped their suggestions. However I did miss the
entry in "~/.local/share/vlc", so that helps me, too. And I did believe
that I had resolved the issue, until I tried to play another film; when I
tried to load the next item, however, I got the same problems all over
again.
I am still fiddling with it, looking for old configurations that used to
work, to see if I can somehow adapt the settings, but it seems that VLC
has changed something, and whatever has changed now interferes with its
operation.
In particular, I notice that I am asked for explicit permission for
network access. But I don't stream videos from online sources; I only
play local files, and have no need of Internet while I am watching; so
that seems unnecessary. I don't remember being asked for such permissions
before, but maybe I used my own settings to evade the problem until now?
Anyway, at present I must delete VLC folders, etc., then start over for
every time I want to play a film. At least I made some progress: I can
use VLC (a little), whereas before yesterday, for a year or more past, I
could not use it at all. This is directed mostly to Nik (since I've
heard him mention both
Devuan and VLC); but also to anybody else who might have some inkling
what is causing this issue.
VLC is (or would be) my media player of choice on most of my machines
or devices. I use it on my smartphone, and don't need anything else
to play music, movies, stream videos or radio. (I've tried other
media players, yes, but they are all inadequate by comparison, at
least for my own needs.) So many good things to say about VLC ...
until about a year or two ago.
Ever since Jessie it will start up, but then immediately crashes.
I've gone through looking for conflicts, but nothing obvious jumps
out at me.
Any suggestions about where to look, or what might be causing such an
issue?
Bill
Sorry, I think I missed that message. If you have not solved it in the
meantime: delete "~/.config/vlc/" and "~/.local/share/vlc"
Nik Does anybody else remember the promise, that
computers would make our
lives easier, and give us more free time?
Yes. And the paperfree office. And then they published UT99 :)
Nik