SOLVED: Re: Wheezy: VLC player weirdness

2012-05-23 Thread T Elcor
--- On Mon, 5/14/12, T Elcor tel...@yahoo.com wrote: For some reason VLC player refuses to play video files. It starts up, shows the first frame of the video but doesn't play it further. What's strange, KDE DragonPlayer plays the same videos fine and I believe DragonPlayer relies on VLC

Wheezy: VLC player weirdness

2012-05-14 Thread T Elcor
Hi, For some reason VLC player refuses to play video files. It starts up, shows the first frame of the video but doesn't play it further. What's strange, KDE DragonPlayer plays the same videos fine and I believe DragonPlayer relies on VLC libraries to play videos. Any ideas? Thanks #

Re: Wheezy: VLC player weirdness

2012-05-14 Thread Tom Grace
On 14/05/12 10:04, T Elcor wrote: Hi, For some reason VLC player refuses to play video files. It starts up, shows the first frame of the video but doesn't play it further. Any ideas? Thanks You may want to try running vlc from a terminal and seeing if you get any useful output. --

Re: Wheezy: VLC player weirdness

2012-05-14 Thread Bob
On 05/14/2012 05:04 PM, T Elcor wrote: Hi, For some reason VLC player refuses to play video files. It starts up, shows the first frame of the video but doesn't play it further. What's strange, KDE DragonPlayer plays the same videos fine and I believe DragonPlayer relies on VLC libraries to

Re: Wheezy: VLC player weirdness

2012-05-14 Thread T Elcor
--- On Mon, 5/14/12, Bob s...@homeurl.co.uk wrote: Try opening it from the a shell prompt with the option like below vlc --ffmpeg-threads 1 /home/bob/Videos/lolcat.mkv Let us know if that helps Didn't help but here's the output: $ vlc --ffmpeg-threads 1 file:///some/file/name.mp4 VLC

Re: Wheezy: VLC player weirdness

2012-05-14 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Mon, 14 May 2012 03:28:18 -0700 (PDT), T wrote in message 1336991298.27242.yahoomailclas...@web121905.mail.ne1.yahoo.com: --- On Mon, 5/14/12, Bob s...@homeurl.co.uk wrote: Try opening it from the a shell prompt with the option like below vlc --ffmpeg-threads 1

Re: Wheezy: VLC player weirdness

2012-05-14 Thread T Elcor
--- On Mon, 5/14/12, Arnt Karlsen a...@c2i.net wrote: ..try vlc --ffmpeg-threads 0  file:///some/file/name.mp4, the zero here means auto. Tried it, pretty much the same output: $vlc --ffmpeg-threads 0 file:///some/file/name.mp4 VLC media player 2.0.1 Twoflower (revision 2.0.1-0-gf432547)

Re: Wheezy: VLC player weirdness

2012-05-14 Thread Indulekha
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 05:21:56AM -0700, T Elcor wrote: --- On Mon, 5/14/12, Arnt Karlsen a...@c2i.net wrote: ..try vlc --ffmpeg-threads 0  file:///some/file/name.mp4, the zero here means auto. Tried it, pretty much the same output: $vlc --ffmpeg-threads 0