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On playing disc 2 of the Firefly DVD boxed set, I received this error message: @mundo:~$ vlc VLC media player 3.0.21 Vetinari (revision 3.0.21-0-gdd8bfdbabe8) [0000557621b43400] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface. [0000557621bd6cb0] main play...

My current system: GTK 3.24.42 / GLib 2.80.3 Locale: C (charset: US-ASCII) Operating System: Linux 6.6.15-amd64 (x86_64) contained the obsolete driver: vdpau-va-driver that has been out of the archive since August 2019. This was causing the libva error I removed and purged vdpau-va-driver and instal...

I have removed all the VA drivers associated with the Debian package: va-driver-all I looked into the libva info in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/nvidia_drv_video.so and found that there is a '@ sign' in front of this nvidia driver. This means in Midnight Commander, it is a symlink to that driver. V...

I installed vainfo: ~$ vainfo libva info: VA-API version 1.21.0 libva error: vaGetDriverNames() failed with unknown libva error vaInitialize failed with error code -1 (unknown libva error),exit can you interpretate this? I don't have Nvidia VA to remove it seems. this error with libva keeps cropping...

On trying to play a DVD on VLC 3.0.20 on GTK 3.24.41 / GLib 2.80.0 Locale: C (charset: US-ASCII) Operating System: Linux 6.6.15-amd64 (x86_64) received the following print out: :~$ vlc --reset-config VLC media player 3.0.20 Vetinari (revision 3.0.20-0-g6f0d0ab126b) [000055615a230430] main libvlc: Ru...

Using VLC on Debian sid AMD-64_86 with XFCE4 Desktop: Seems to launch but does not show on DeskTop root@mundo:/home/charles# dpkg -l | grep vlc ii libvlc5 2.1.2-2+b1 amd64 multimedia player and streamer library rc libvlccore4 1:1.1.13-0.0 amd64 base library for VLC and its modules rc libvlccore5 1:2...

Thanks Jean-Baptiste, so small a command to relieve so big a problem

C.

Thanks for your considerate reply. I'm glad to know it isn't a bug. Where can I find this file for editing, or can you suggest the proper proceedure to reset the configuration.

C.

I'm using the XFCE4 desktop on a mixture of unstable and experimental packages in Debian. When starting the VLC upgrade from unstable to experimental on Debian I receive a window asking to select a skin from a skin file. I do this but receive no GUI. Here's the error information from an Xterm. Can a...