VLC doesn't show external drive

[SkinnyPete]

When I select File > Open Directory, the contents of my connected external drive are not shown - just the internal drive. On the other hand, the small player "Celluloid" has no problem seeing the external drive.

[EduardoP]

Maybe is a problems in codec or file is not available

[SkinnyPete]

No, I don't think that's the issue. Files are on the external drive and I can play them with another media player. The problem is that VLC doesn't show the external drive when I try to select a file or directory to open. I can use a different medial player - in fact that's what I am doing. But since I VLC is one of the most widely used players for Linux, I'm surprised it would have an issue with something as basic as this.

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

The open dialogues are provided by the Qt framework, which is provisioned by the Linux distribution, not the VLC media player project, so there is not a whole lot to say or do here.

[SkinnyPete]

So the other player on my system that does recognize isn't using Qt? It sounds l like VLC is not compatible with my Linux distro, so I'll need to find a different media player.

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

If you mean Celluloid, then it does indeed use GTK+ rather than Qt.

But I'd rather guess that the external media is not mounted, and thus not visible to much any application, not as regular directories and files anyway.

[SkinnyPete]

Ah - so I should be able to fix that in Linux. I thought if the drive was visible to other apps, then it must be mounted.

I'm somewhat of a Linux newbie.