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Look, I’m just a user, no programmer! Recompiling is no option for users.

You’re kidding?!

Any way to control the link/relink it?

I have even three installed:

Using openSUSE Linux 11.4, Gnome 2.30.2. Today, I upgraded vlc by: # zypper up vlc-beta 6 packages were upgraded from the vlc repo. The vlc version was 2.1.0-git Rincewind (sorry, can’t remember what was the previous one). Whichever video file was opened, the same error popped up (translating from R...

A follow-up: the problem seems to be gone in vlc 2.0. Thus, update!

So, there is no remedy, or is there?

Using VLC 1.2.0-git Twoflower compiled abuild on messiah (Jun 30 2011 10:30:18) on openSUSE 11.3/Gnome. With certain AVI files, speech is barely audible even with the sound volume maxed out (both vlc own and system volume control), while music/sound effects are OK. Ctrl+I shows that the files have A...

A follow-up to the story. By searching in Google, I have found a hint that the problem can relate to installing vlc-related packages from different repos. Indeed, when I checked through Yast, it turned out that some packages were installed from the vlc repo, some were from packman. I turned off pack...

Well, MPlayer runs fine on the same machine/system.

When I run strace vlc I get the following output: writev(4, [{"l\0\v\0\0\0\22\0\20\0\0\0", 12}, {"", 0}, {"MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1", 18}, {"\0\0", 2}, {"XXp\363I3\vfM\214\312V\te,\30", 16}, {"", 0}], 6) = 48 read(4, "\1\0\v\0\0\0+\2", ...

Of course, but when I run in gdb, there is not crash. Anyway, here is what I get: GNU gdb (GDB) SUSE (7.1-3.12) Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribu...

I fail to understand: what backtrace? As I understand [1], a program can be backtraced in case of a crash, but it does not crash when launched via gdb. Am I missing something?

[1] http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6391

I confirm that starts without problem, only with a warning that something missing and suggestion to install it using zypper. However, when I try to execute the suggested command, I get a message saying that this thing is installed (vlc-nox-debuginfo) and there is nothing to do.

Just to add, when I try launching as vlc --verbose 2 I get the following output: VLC media player 1.1.7 The Luggage (revision exported) [0x80503fc] main libvlc debug: VLC media player - 1.1.7 The Luggage [0x80503fc] main libvlc debug: Copyright © 1996-2011 the VideoLAN team [0x80503fc] main libvlc d...

I've upgraded VLC from 1.1.5 to 1.1.7 on my openSUSE Linux 11.3 (Gnome) via the VLC repo. Now, VLC does not start anymore. When I try launching via the command line, I get: VLC media player 1.1.7 The Luggage (revision exported) Blocked: call to unsetenv("DBUS_ACTIVATION_ADDRESS") Blocked: ...

A follow-up:

The problem turned out to be about the driver to my video card, not about VLC. After I’ve changed it from vesa to radeon (the proprietary fglrx would not work) by executing:
the colors became normal.

I don’t have nVidia. Do you mean, there is no remedy for Radeon?

OK, I see. Thanks. But this way, you have to react to any report (including possible multiple ones from different users), which may become every tiresome in case of real spam floods. My suggestion allows you to kill a bunch of threads at a time.

I’ve installed VLC 1.0.2 on openSUSE Linux 11.1 using one-click install following the link http://download.videolan.org/pub/vlc/SuSE/11.1/vlc.ymp . Everything seems to be fine except for one annoyance: all videos that I try to play irrespective of their formats appear with an excessive blue hue. Thi...

May I suggest a way of involving users in spam fight? Like they do at OpenOffice.org forums:
a) users that spot spam messages post a reply containing: b) moderators periodically search forums for the above string and remove the threads.

Thanks for the tips. I have libavcodec52 installed, and Yast2 does not issue any warning about dependencies. The command that you have specified produces the following output: [00000001] main libvlc debug: VLC media player - version 0.9.8a Grishenko - (c) 1996-2008 the VideoLAN team [00000001] main ...

OK, I have launched vlc as vlc --verbose 2 Here is what I get when opening a file: [00000398] qt4 interface debug: New item: /windows/D/file.avi [00000363] main playlist debug: adding item `file.avi' ( /windows/D/file.avi ) [00000363] main playlist debug: rebuilding array of current - root Плейлист ...

To fix this, please be sure to:

* Give your Operating System and VLC media player version

I’m terribly sorry, but did you read the very heading of my posting? Not to mention:

downloaded vlc 0.9.8a … and installed them all in my system (openSUSE 11.1/Gnome).

I’ve downloaded vlc 0.9.8a and a bunch of other required RPMs from ftp://download.videolan.org/pub/vlc/SuSE/11.1/i586/ and installed them all in my system (openSUSE 11.1/Gnome). When I tried to open several video files, I got each time a warning, that vlc could not play this file in DIV3, and there ...