The VideoLAN Forums

Not much we can do. If Ubuntu would not include VLC at all, we could relatively easily provide our own version on the VideoLAN.org website. But overriding a package provided by the distribution is a bad idea. You can find plenty of users complaining about broken or abandoned VLC PPA on this very fo...

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-ubuntu.html

Only provides 0.8.4

Any suggestions?

I have switched to Ubuntu Linux, and having used VLS for years in Window$, I am encountering some problems. I dislike most other Linux players as not fully CODED enables or just not featured enough, so I am hoping for success (again) with VLC. I am 95% sure I used VLC to play my SWF files, like this...

What about .flv (stand alone flash videos) as found on sites like youtube.com?

do you have both the Mozilla and Firefox browsers installed? did you install the plugin using the vlc installer?(or by manually copying the plugin files) it matters because I'm trying to help troubleshoot the situation.. you say the plugin does not work. ;) No, only Mozilla 1.7.11 only. I used what...

OK - justa wondering.

Now how about a frame grabber that grabs, say every first, second, 4th or 8th frame, and stores and writes it to a image file? Sort of a poor man's frame-by-framer...

E:\Program Files\mozilla.org
and
E:\Program Files\VideoLAN
with Mozilla cache files at
E:\Mozcache

Why does that matter?

Have win98SE, Pentium 350mHz, 128M RAM Mozilla shows: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.11) Gecko/20050728 and: VLC multimedia plugin File name: npvlc.dll VLC multimedia plugin Version "0.8.2" VideoLAN WWW: http://www.videolan.org/ MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled audio/m...

Gee - didn't know it was a bug - just avoided MPEG4 - any ETA on fix???

Hmmm, How difficult would that be to implement???

Is ther a "frame-by-frame" advance feature available? Moving the slider bar does not seem to advance the image and have found no frame advance controls.

(Win 98SE, 350Mhz 128MEG antqwue but functional PC)