Hi
Just installed the new Mint 7 KDE CE
Everything went nice and dandy but... my beloved VLC won't open
It's VLC 1.0 , i tried with an older version too no luck
I ve been using Mint the Gnome edition and it was working just fine
Now i see something in the taskbar for few seconds and then disappears whithout doing anything
It's a brand new install, fresh, clean slate
Can anyone point me into the right direction please.
Appreciate it!
VLC not opening
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VLC not opening
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richyrich
Re: VLC not opening
Hi,
Can you open a terminal and type vlc , then hit enter.
What error messages in the terminal ?
Can you open a terminal and type vlc , then hit enter.
What error messages in the terminal ?
Re: VLC not opening
Here it is :
VLC media player 1.0.1 Goldeneye
[0x9f5a140] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface.
Segmentation fault
Typing cvlc gives me :
VLC media player 1.0.1 Goldeneye
[0x8fa1298] dummy interface: using the dummy interface module...
Segmentation fault
VLC media player 1.0.1 Goldeneye
[0x9f5a140] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface.
Segmentation fault
Typing cvlc gives me :
VLC media player 1.0.1 Goldeneye
[0x8fa1298] dummy interface: using the dummy interface module...
Segmentation fault
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richyrich
Re: VLC not opening
By searching through the VLC Forum,
You may have artifacts left over from 0.9.9, open Synaptic and type vlc in the search bar, is there anything left from your previous version? if so, un-install.
Make sure you have libdvdcss2 and libdvdread4 installed. (Synaptic)
Another thing, was to clear the cache & config files before doing the upgrade: ~/.cache/vlc , ~/.config/vlc
http://forum.videolan.org/index.php ( they can explain it much better than me - just search for "segmentation")
Richy
You may have artifacts left over from 0.9.9, open Synaptic and type vlc in the search bar, is there anything left from your previous version? if so, un-install.
Make sure you have libdvdcss2 and libdvdread4 installed. (Synaptic)
Another thing, was to clear the cache & config files before doing the upgrade: ~/.cache/vlc , ~/.config/vlc
http://forum.videolan.org/index.php ( they can explain it much better than me - just search for "segmentation")
Richy
Re: VLC not opening
I ended up removing it and reinstalling.
Along with this i thought it would be a good idea to install the video drivers(nvidia)
After rebooting i was staring at a white and gray checkered screen where i couldn't do anything
Did i mention i didn't have any sound?
3 hrs later and 2 smashed keyboards
i finally got my screen and my VLC back
The sound is still spotty. Now working later not.No error messages in any of the logs.Gotta dig a bit deeper.Didn't have time
Thank You for your help!!
Along with this i thought it would be a good idea to install the video drivers(nvidia)
After rebooting i was staring at a white and gray checkered screen where i couldn't do anything
Did i mention i didn't have any sound?
3 hrs later and 2 smashed keyboards
i finally got my screen and my VLC back The sound is still spotty. Now working later not.No error messages in any of the logs.Gotta dig a bit deeper.Didn't have time
Thank You for your help!!
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richyrich
Re: VLC not opening
Glad you got it working. . . hmmm, audio . . .
Open a terminal and type lspci, hit enter , and aplay -l (small case L), enter, can you then post the two outputs back here?
Open a terminal and type lspci, hit enter , and aplay -l (small case L), enter, can you then post the two outputs back here?
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DrHu
Re: VLC not opening
And which version of VLC was installed thenphotek wrote:I ended up removing it and reinstalling.
--in Linux mint 7-gloria 32bit version, my VLC is version [0.9.9a Grishenko], audio/video are fine
Re: VLC not opening
OK
i really wanted to try KDE 4.X
I was hoping it got better from the last time i tried (when it came out)
Total disaster, and i'm talking obviously from my own experience
From the moment i installed it : sound working ...now and then, video crashed (yes it gave me blackouts!) no idea why, never happened ,the plasmoids(widgets) crashed whenever i was expecting the least, the system overall felt sluggish, unresponsive.Monitoring the system showed strange processor behaviour bouncing from idle 9%- 15% to 80- 90 whithout using anyting. ??!!!
Put back my trusted Gloria x64 and it feels like i got back home
No bashing intended really, i know some people here spent a boatload of time on this release to make it happen but i don't think it's their fault.It's just KDE 4.x that is not quite ready for the masses (or at least not for me )
Thank you rich for your kind support !
i really wanted to try KDE 4.X
I was hoping it got better from the last time i tried (when it came out)
Total disaster, and i'm talking obviously from my own experience
From the moment i installed it : sound working ...now and then, video crashed (yes it gave me blackouts!) no idea why, never happened ,the plasmoids(widgets) crashed whenever i was expecting the least, the system overall felt sluggish, unresponsive.Monitoring the system showed strange processor behaviour bouncing from idle 9%- 15% to 80- 90 whithout using anyting. ??!!!
Put back my trusted Gloria x64 and it feels like i got back home
No bashing intended really, i know some people here spent a boatload of time on this release to make it happen but i don't think it's their fault.It's just KDE 4.x that is not quite ready for the masses (or at least not for me
)Thank you rich for your kind support !