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vlc not playing video

hi to all, I've centos 6.4 in VM. I installed vlc using yum. but it is not playing displays only 1st frame. no motion.

Code:

# rpm -ivh --force  epel-release-latest-6.noarch.rpm

# rpm -ivh --force  nux-dextop-release-0-1.el6.nux.noarch.rpm

# yum install vlc

Code:

[rahul@centos64client ~]$ yum info vlc

Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, refresh-packagekit, security

Determining fastest mirrors

 * base: centos.excellmedia.net

 * extras: centos.excellmedia.net

 * nux-dextop: li.nux.ro

 * remi-safe: remi.schlundtech.de

 * updates: centos.excellmedia.net

Installed Packages

Name        : vlc

Arch        : x86_64

Version    : 2.1.6

Release    : 2.el6.nux

Size        : 3.9 M

Repo        : installed

From repo  : nux-dextop

Summary    : The cross-platform open-source multimedia framework, player and

            : server

URL        : http://www.videolan.org

License    : GPLv2+

Description : VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player and

            : multimedia framework capable of reading most audio and video

            : formats as well as DVDs, Audio CDs VCDs, and various streaming

            : protocols. It can also be used as a media converter or a server to

            : stream in uni-cast or multi-cast in IPv4 or IPv6 on networks.

how to play videos

Quote:

Originally Posted by rahulvishwakarma (Post 6049526)

hi to all, I've centos 6.4 in VM. I installed vlc using yum. but it is not playing displays only 1st frame. no motion.

Code:

# rpm -ivh --force  epel-release-latest-6.noarch.rpm

# rpm -ivh --force  nux-dextop-release-0-1.el6.nux.noarch.rpm

# yum install vlc

Code:

[rahul@centos64client ~]$ yum info vlc

Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, refresh-packagekit, security

Determining fastest mirrors

 * base: centos.excellmedia.net

 * extras: centos.excellmedia.net

 * nux-dextop: li.nux.ro

 * remi-safe: remi.schlundtech.de

 * updates: centos.excellmedia.net

Installed Packages

Name        : vlc

Arch        : x86_64

Version    : 2.1.6

Release    : 2.el6.nux

Size        : 3.9 M

Repo        : installed

From repo  : nux-dextop

Summary    : The cross-platform open-source multimedia framework, player and

            : server

URL        : http://www.videolan.org

License    : GPLv2+

Description : VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player and

            : multimedia framework capable of reading most audio and video

            : formats as well as DVDs, Audio CDs VCDs, and various streaming

            : protocols. It can also be used as a media converter or a server to

            : stream in uni-cast or multi-cast in IPv4 or IPv6 on networks.

how to play videos

Would help if you said what you did to play them. What did you type in/run/click??? What type of video file was it?? Did you install the VLC codecs? Any details at all???

If you got a single frame up, did you click the PLAY button?

i played mp4 files by just drag and drop and also by open media->filename.mp4 . yes i clicked play button.

Quote:

Originally Posted by rahulvishwakarma (Post 6049553)

i played mp4 files by just drag and drop and also by open media->filename.mp4 . yes i clicked play button.

Ok...so do the videos play in any other application? Have you tried playing them from the command-line with "vlc <filename>", to see what messages come up? Are you sure the videos aren't corrupt?

If by "but it is not playing displays only 1st frame. no motion." you mean that it starts playing the video then stops, it would sound more like a 3D graphics related issue of some kind. Either way, TB0ne's right, you need to provide far more information for us to be able to help.

If you have the nux-dextop repository enabled and yum didn't flag any errors when installing the VLC package, then codecs should have also been installed by default, particularly since you say it's displaying the first frame of the video you're trying to play.

If I'm right about your situation so far, then please provide the following information in full;

The output of,

Code:

cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log

and we'll go from there.

Also, since you're running CentOS in a VM, this may very well be the reason for your problems.

PS: CentOS 6.x is getting old, so you might also consider updating to the latest version of CentOS.

There was some setting on VLC that could cause this. Sorry I forget exactly what the change in setting is. Some reference to how it uses video. Seems to me it was easily found and didn't require using advanced menus. Like right click on video and scroll down.

Sorry but what's the point of playing videos in a VM.
Also, I'm pretty sure that would cause huge performance problems on my machines.

Have you tried other media players? mpv? mplayer?

Show us some output.