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guy_c

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Registered: 2009-07-05

Posts: 21

VLC Media Player won't launch [solved: must run not in superuser]

Hello,

To be able to see avi clips I installed with Syanapic the VLC package which had been categorized under "multimedia". When I launch it nothing happens  :-(. Tried to restart the machine but it does not do any better.

Thanks in advance for your help

Guy

Armada1750, 300MHz, 320MB ram, 20G hdd, XFCE4 squeeze

ManOfSteel

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Registered: 2005-10-06

Posts: 104

Re: VLC Media Player won't launch [solved: must run not in superuser]

Have you tried running it from a terminal emulator and looking for errors? You may get better replies on their forum.

But why use a QT-based application under a GTK-based desktop environment when there are many similar and better GTK-based applications?

All I've seen about non-Windows versions of VLC is that they're buggy. The last time I tried it, it launched fine, but used to crash every few seconds while watching any video.

If I were you I'd use mplayer with its native graphical interface or better, with the gnome-mplayer interface. mplayer plays virtually every format out there, including AVIs, FLVs and many more. Plus the interface is GTK-based.

guy_c

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Registered: 2009-07-05

Posts: 21

Re: VLC Media Player won't launch [solved: must run not in superuser]

Hello ManOfSteel,

As you said I went to their forum and they suggested just what you did. On the consol I saw that it won't execute as root. I retried logged a <user> and it did run and play the movie however, it did not play the sound.

... So I close this as resolved and reopen thread http://forum.xfce.org/index.php?topic=5267.0

guy_c

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Registered: 2009-07-05

Posts: 21

Re: VLC Media Player won't launch [solved: must run not in superuser]

I ended up installing mplayer. It works perfectly and i am now able to listen to music with my ruin. VLC is not recommended