VLC Media Player
 

HELP!!!

Anyone installed VLC media player ?

I can get the sound working but i get no video...
Any ideas

Hi,

What distribution have you installed it on, and what type of file are you trying to play?

I had no issues installing VLC using yum, I do know it requires a lot of dependencies, when I installed it with yum it downloaded 25 some packages, all I had to type was "yum install vlc", I run FC5.

You may need to install xvid/divx codecs, it sounds like thats what the problem is.

it's possible that vlc doesn't know what display to use:

settings>preferences>video>output modules....make sure 'advanced' is checked

you may have to input your display number (often 0) in X11, or OpenGL, or XVideo - or all the above, to get it to work.

cheers,

I made sure all that was done, there was a display name secion what should i put in there ?

Is it not be the ffmpeg that's a problem

hey i too am facing problem with VLC. i have installed it in FC5. installation was smooth without any probs. but whenever i try opening a file via file -> open. the player crashes. i tried all types of files, avi, mpg, mp3, ogg, rm, rmvb. but nothing works. any idea what problem it would be?