SOLVED: Re: Wheezy: VLC player weirdness
--- 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 libraries to play videos. Any ideas? Thanks The VLC player is working fine now after updating the system to the latest packages in wheezy and manually removing old obsolete packages that can no longer be downloaded. I had a couple of those. # aptitude show vlc Package: vlc Version: 2.0.1-4+b2 # aptitude show phonon-backend-vlc Package: phonon-backend-vlc Version: 0.5.0-1 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1337774532.49792.yahoomailclas...@web121901.mail.ne1.yahoo.com
Wheezy: VLC player weirdness
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 # aptitude show phonon-backend-vlc Package: phonon-backend-vlc State: installed Version: 0.5.0-1 # aptitude show vlc Package: vlc State: installed Version: 2.0.1-4+b1 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1336986249.74484.yahoomailclas...@web121902.mail.ne1.yahoo.com
Re: Wheezy: VLC player weirdness
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. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4fb0d618.3060...@deathbycomputers.co.uk
Re: Wheezy: VLC player weirdness
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 play videos. Any ideas? Thanks # aptitude show phonon-backend-vlc Package: phonon-backend-vlc State: installed Version: 0.5.0-1 # aptitude show vlc Package: vlc State: installed Version: 2.0.1-4+b1 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4fb0d7bd.3020...@homeurl.co.uk
Re: Wheezy: VLC player weirdness
--- 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 media player 2.0.1 Twoflower (revision 2.0.1-0-gf432547) [0x21ab108] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface. [0x263a7d8] xcb_xv vout display error: no available XVideo adaptor [0x7f8b90d94d28] freetype spu text error: Breaking unbreakable line -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1336991298.27242.yahoomailclas...@web121905.mail.ne1.yahoo.com
Re: Wheezy: VLC player weirdness
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 /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 ..try vlc --ffmpeg-threads 0 file:///some/file/name.mp4, the zero here means auto. -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120514135758.39f81...@celsius.lan
Re: Wheezy: VLC player weirdness
--- 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) [0x987108] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface. [0x1c9ed48] xcb_xv vout display error: no available XVideo adaptor [0x7fccc1296c18] freetype spu text error: Breaking unbreakable line Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1336998116.82174.yahoomailclas...@web121904.mail.ne1.yahoo.com
Re: Wheezy: VLC player weirdness
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 file:///some/file/name.mp4 VLC media player 2.0.1 Twoflower (revision 2.0.1-0-gf432547) [0x987108] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface. [0x1c9ed48] xcb_xv vout display error: no available XVideo adaptor [0x7fccc1296c18] freetype spu text error: Breaking unbreakable line Try a different video driver (vout). The xv isn't working for you... -- ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ Indulekha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120514142040.GA1584@radhesyama
