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DimStar

Hello,

How did you install VLC? What source did it come from?
Did you install from source (compile yourself)

Installed RPMs? In this case, please issue a in a terminal and give us the output.

Thank you.

Just to let you know:

Version 0.8.6d was just released and the RPMs for openSUSE are available.
I hope this might also solve your problems here in an easy way.

Best regards,
DimStar

Hi, first: the VLC Project offers own RPMs for openSUSE 10.3 too (check the website http://download.videolan.org/vlc/download-suse.html, there is even a 1-click install for openSUSE 10.3). The other question: no, that patch is not included in the packages 0.8.6c. But rumour has it that 0.8.6d will h...

Hi, sorry, did not realize that you're on 10.1... indeed, the firewall module had a bit less features at this time. So for you it might be that you have to enter the line directly in /etc/sysconfig/SuSEfirewall2 I think you should be able to find a line like: FW_SERVICE_ACCEPT_EXT (or something simi...

Hello, Well, you can set it in Yast2, Firewall (I just had to look up how.. I never did it :-) ) So.. go to Yast2, Firewall, and select 'Custom Rules' I guess all your devices are in the external zone (standard). Add a rule, with the following parameters: Source Network: 212.27.38.253/32 (if all ent...

Hello, to see exactly what we should do in your firewall, I'd suggest you have a look at /var/log/firewall to see exactly what is getting blocked. Then we can start adding a rule to /etc/sysconfig/SuSEfirewall2 that allows this specific connection. Post a few lines from the firewall log and I'll tel...

Can you provide the output of
please?

Try to set the video output module to something different in VLC (try X11, as that works for you in mplayer).

-> Settings, Preferences, Video, Output Module, select 'Advanced' and choose your prefered output method. This could help you in this case.

Do you have by any chances Compiz running on your system?

I've seen several issues with compiz and video playback, from blurry images up to not recognizable.

I'm afraid if we can't get the whole error message, it will be close to impossible to help. Try the following: su - zypper sl zypper in vlc If there comes a message about dependencies, let it do the full test if possible, then cancel. Copy the output here and I'm sure we can sort it out. Did you try...

Can you be a bit more verbose please? What dependencies are missing?

you can also paste the output of a zypper solver run... that could help as well.

We might need some more information for this issue.

Like: what URLs are you trying to access? A log file from vlc -vvv might also be quiet helpful in this case (maybe they use an unsupported codec?)

Hi, ignoring depencdency problems and conflicts in yast almost always renders the one or other software useless; that's what for the dependencies are there: to give you a good, stable system, but it only works as long as you respect it. I assume you also have at least some other repositories added t...

Hello,

when you clicked that link, was there an installer starting? (the Yast Meta Package Handler) or were you only asked to download a *.ymp file?

hey, I've just seen that you were the user that already had trouble adding the Repository first. Good that this one is solved at all ;) Now back to SLES 10 (from your other post I can see that you really use the 10.1 repo): SLES in fact is missing several libs (well, it's meant for servers and does ...

Are you certain you selected the 10.1 repository and not the 10.0?
SLES and SLED 10 are based on SUSE Linux 10.1, and not as the name would revel, on 10.0.

And you can not install vlc and vlc-beta together; they are exclusive to each other.

Depending on your needs, there are several packages maintained directly by the VLC project...

of course I would now make publicity for openSUSE Why: because it's different

The repos should be completely functional and gpg signed again.

In fact that's an error which of course was not intentional.
As workaround, you can set it to checksum, but I'll try to update the repo this evening to bring the signatures back online.

Sorry for this

John, well, from reading your output I would say you make a small mess on your system. What distribution are you using? I can see references to Mandrake (*.mdk*.rpm), Fedora 6 and 7 and the RPMs you seem to try to install are prepared for openSUSE. I'm not really sure what you try to achieve there i...

Well, there comes a problem of the 32bit Firefox on a 64bit machine. Either you have to: - use the 32bit version of vlc (I never tried that actually) - use a 64bit version of Firefox. You'll run in other problems though, basically Java and Flash (flash works good with the nspluginwrapper, never trie...

WEll, you found the right program :-) VLC is for you. Can you give some more informations about that AVI File? As you might know, AVI is only a container and it can contain a wide range of real formats. You can get some information inside VLC in the Codec Information screen. It might be an issue wit...

well, there it looks to me like you have a connection problem. Do you sit behind a proxy? Are you sure the whole setup of the network is correct? For the key you can try the following: wget http://download.videolan.org/pub/vlc/SuSE/10.1/repodata/repomd.xml.key sudo rpm --import repomd.xml.key please...

Maybe you first have to try to import the gpg key (happens apparently sometimes).
and then try to add the repo again. Maybe it helps.