The VideoLAN Forums

While looking into a garbled text issue for Firefox, I changed a VirtualBox VM setting, “Enable 3D Acceleration.” Disabling 3D acceleration took care of not only the Firefox problems but also similar garbled character issues I have seen in other apps, including VLC. VLC is now running on my Debian 1...

Hi Rémi :D Thanks for taking a look at this. I installed VLC using sudo apt install vlc . I have not modified the repositories so VLC should be pulled from Debian repositories. The log file is from a new VM on which have not yet copied over any video files so I haven't done anything with VLC other t...

I’m running GNOME in wayland. I have a Debian stable 12.5 base on which I installed GNOME using tasksel running in a VirtualBox VM. After installing VLC I noticed the VLC title bar which should display the name of the currently playing content displays unintelligible characters shown here: https://i...