I went ahead and installed the new Vlc Media Player; 2.0.3
I executed:
And, it is not working on my system either. I don't have sound and I can't see the video; the screen is black.

Starting to get a little :banghead:

I've never had this much trouble with free software.
If it is an Codec issue (I don't know how to tell)I'm not sure how to manipulate codex's to fix it-

Please advise

This link might help. Apparently, you need to pass an argument to VLC from the command line to play *.flv media:

http://wiki.videolan.org/Flash_Video

Thanks for the link frankbell!

I read the page twice to be certain I understood the argument.

Iv'e never seen this (%) in an commandline argument before.

Is this; (%)and ( " ") required to work properly in the terminal?

I doubt it is a codec issue. VLC has maybe the most there is in a single program choice.

It would be easy to test it on some other files or even dvd's.

Sorry the overlay deal wasn't it. I have only had this issue once and it was some setting, click and it worked.


From a different forum, try this.

"
Open VLC Player, Go to Preferences -- Video -- highlight Output Modules.
Check Advanced Options at the bottom and select X11 video output from the drop-down list.

Restart VLC Player."

http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/man...o-video-2.html

The percent sign might be an attempt to illustrate the command prompt. It can't hurt to try the command with it; the worst that will happen is a "command not found" error.

Jefro:

Great news!

I went to Preferences> Video and found X11 in the drop down menu. Selected it and saved the changes.
Closed VLC and than re-started it with a video it plays all my videos and movies.

It's so nice to have VLC working! Thank You!

Frankbell:

First I tried:


Going in under Preferences> Video> and selecting the X11 video output solved the problem.
I now have sound and video and it's nice to have a working media player!

I didn't run that command afterall; but I did write it and the link down just in case for the future.

Thanks for helping me.:)

Glad you got it working. Thanks for the update--it might help someone else who comes here with that issue.

Thanks for the update.

I think you can mark this solved.

Thanks for the help:cool: