On Thursday 18 June 2020 21:58:26 deloptes wrote:
William Morder via trinity-users wrote:
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.
Might be through, but if I was to use GTK application, I wouldn't stick to TDE for so long.
You'll have to debug - find out where and why it fails.
From what you are writing it could be some old library on the way or some old configuration saved around.
Did you try with another fresh user (just create one, log in and run VLC). You will find out if it has to do with user configuration
My choice is mplayer with kplayer as frontend BTW. The only problem I have from time to time is with commercial DVDs.
It didn't take too long, once I started thinking about it from a different point of view. Somebody off-handedly mentioned permissions, and somebody else said to make sure X was included in group "video", etc. And I considered creating a new user, too. But before I did that I just used apt-get to purge, then I looked for the folders where the config files are kept. I didn't even delete them, but only renamed the folders everywhere that I found vlc, to vlc-x, so that I didn't lose them, but so a new installation of vlc wouldn't look there.
Funny thing is, I am pretty sure I tried all this once before. At least now it's working; maybe something will get changed again?
I'm still not sure how it got messed up, since I generally stick with what works, and even make a backup of that folder or file. But somehow, something got messed up. Anyway, so that's better, because I was having a problem watching videos of some file types.
Bill
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