On Thursday 18 June 2020 21:58:26 deloptes wrote: > William Morder via trinity-users wrote: > > VLC is (or would be) my media player of choice on most of my machines or > > devices. I use it on my smartphone, and don't need anything else to play > > music, movies, stream videos or radio. (I've tried other media players, > > yes, but they are all inadequate by comparison, at least for my own > > needs.) So many good things to say about VLC ... until about a year or > > two ago. > > Might be through, but if I was to use GTK application, I wouldn't stick to > TDE for so long. > > You'll have to debug - find out where and why it fails. > > From what you are writing it could be some old library on the way or some > old configuration saved around. > > Did you try with another fresh user (just create one, log in and run VLC). > You will find out if it has to do with user configuration > > My choice is mplayer with kplayer as frontend BTW. The only problem I have > from time to time is with commercial DVDs. > > It didn't take too long, once I started thinking about it from a different point of view. Somebody off-handedly mentioned permissions, and somebody else said to make sure X was included in group "video", etc. And I considered creating a new user, too. But before I did that I just used apt-get to purge, then I looked for the folders where the config files are kept. I didn't even delete them, but only renamed the folders everywhere that I found vlc, to vlc-x, so that I didn't lose them, but so a new installation of vlc wouldn't look there. Funny thing is, I am pretty sure I tried all this once before. At least now it's working; maybe something will get changed again? I'm still not sure how it got messed up, since I generally stick with what works, and even make a backup of that folder or file. But somehow, something got messed up. Anyway, so that's better, because I was having a problem watching videos of some file types. Bill --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting
