SOLVED: Re: Wheezy: VLC player weirdness

2012-05-23 Thread T Elcor
--- On Mon, 5/14/12, T Elcor 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 pla

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 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/nam

Re: Wheezy: VLC player weirdness

2012-05-14 Thread T Elcor
--- On Mon, 5/14/12, Arnt Karlsen 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) [0x98710

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 wrote: > > > Try opening it from the a shell prompt with the option like > > below > > vlc --ffmpeg-threads 1 /home/bob/Videos/lolcat.mkv > >

Re: Wheezy: VLC player weirdness

2012-05-14 Thread T Elcor
--- On Mon, 5/14/12, Bob 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.

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 pl

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.