VLC unable to open MRL

2010-11-07 Thread Matthias Andersson
VLC is unable to open MRL but the same file works perfectly in Totem media player. What am I missing? Cheers, Matthias -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJM1p1JAAoJEDF8u

Re: VLC unable to open MRL

2010-11-07 Thread Mark Allums
is unable to open MRL but the same file works perfectly in Totem media player. What am I missing? I don't know, but I had the exact same problem, except in reverse. VLC would play fine, but Totem either wouldn't play, or in one case, could not keep time synchronization. My guess

Re: VLC unable to open MRL

2010-11-07 Thread Matthias Andersson
On 11/07/2010 03:11 PM, Mark Allums wrote: I don't know, but I had the exact same problem, except in reverse. VLC would play fine, but Totem either wouldn't play, or in one case, could not keep time synchronization. My guess is that it's still the lack of the right codec(s), although that

Re: VLC unable to open MRL

2010-11-07 Thread Rob Owens
try to play a .m3p or .avi file in vlc is always gives the error message VLC is unable to open MRL but the same file works perfectly in Totem media player. Does mplayer work? I think there's something in debian-multimedia.org that breaks VLC playback of certain file types. I don't remember

Re: VLC unable to open MRL

2010-11-07 Thread Matthias Andersson
On 11/07/2010 03:38 PM, Rob Owens wrote: Does mplayer work? I think there's something in debian-multimedia.org that breaks VLC playback of certain file types. I don't remember the details, but I think you can find an explanation on www.debian-multimedia.org. -Rob mplayer works

Re: VLC unable to open MRL

2010-11-07 Thread Frank
the gstreamer packages ugly, bad, very bad. I then installed vlc but now when I try to play a .m3p or .avi file in vlc is always gives the error message VLC is unable to open MRL but the same file works perfectly in Totem media player. What am I missing? As far as I knowVLC does

Re: VLC unable to open MRL

2010-11-07 Thread Ron Johnson
message VLC is unable to open MRL but the same file works perfectly in Totem media player. What am I missing? vlc has always been old reliable for me when playing video, but honestly I've never tried playing audio files on it. (Aqualung and mpc are my audio players of choice.) Run it from