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Hi all, I noticed I can't open symlinks in VLC, either from the file browser, neither from the command line. The error messages are as follows (translated from Portuguese): > cvlc "/home/familia/Música/Ro40/Iron Maiden - Wasted Years.mp3" VLC media player 2.2.1 Terry Pratchett (Weatherwax)...

You solved my problem! If fact, it wasn't a matter of enabling qt4, but many required libraries were just not installed, including some related to qt4. Anyway, by searching how to enable qt4, I ended up in the step by step instructions to build vlc from source, and installed everything required. Thi...

Now I'm confused. I don't get a vlc window or panel button. What exactly is running? How do I use the program at this point?
Thanks,
Emerson

It doesn't. It just shows this message in the terminal window, but never opens up.

Hi all, I compiled vlc 2.0.1 from source to get the latest stable version and check a playlist possible bug. I use Linux Mint Debian Edition (which follows Debian Testing kinda close), which currently has 2.0.0. I configured with "--disable -lua" switch, since I couldn't settle luac depend...

The members of the VideoLAN project as well as the official Debian Multimedia maintainers[1] strongly advise that you do not use the Debian Multimedia repository under any circumstances. Hi, I'm using Linux Mint Debian Edition, which is derived from Debian Testing. I can't tell exactly which packag...