[Solved] Difficulty with Permissions: Trouble accessing video files from VScode

[jewbb]

Greetings -
I am running a Julia program with the VideoIO library and I am trying to load a video from my system into VScode. This was working on my Windows machine, so I believe it is a permissions issue in Linux.

I have tried:
(1) installing VLC as the media player in hopes that it was some sort of error with software, and
(2) using the full path name of the video in my code.

I am not yet to the point where I can comfortably tinker around with permissions in the Linux file system, so I humbly ask for some assistance
- Thanks, JB

[ke1th3216]

G'day

Congrats on a wise move.

VScode is a programming level text editor. I don't know how it will run a video file, other than call a designated program to run the file like you would when you open the file in a viewer. (Perhaps the windows versions of VScode attended to this automagically, and MS hasn't migrated that feature to the linux version.

VLC is one video viewer. You didn't say if your file ran in VLC


Another thing, when you say running a Julia program, do you mean you're running Mint Julia?

[Flemur]

Greetings -
I am running a Julia program with the VideoIO library and I am trying to load a video from my system into VScode.

Does that mean you used VScode to write a program in Julia and that program uses the "OpenCV (Open Computer Vision) Video I/O library" and the Julia program is supposed to open a video file?

This was working on my Windows machine, so I believe it is a permissions issue in Linux.

Try

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ls -l the-video-file

I have tried:
(1) installing VLC as the media player in hopes that it was some sort of error with software, and

And what happened? Run vlc in a terminal to see more information.

[jewbb]

Thank you all.
After a lot of digging and configuring, I figured out the issues. It was with the version of the libraries that I had installed.
Sorry for the late response, I have been slammed with schoolwork.
Thanks everyone for your help!