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Mountainjew

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2008-08-24

Posts: 405

VLC crashes on KDE

So i've had this problem for a while and i'm assuming it's Qt related.

Whenever i open VLC and click open > file or directory, it hangs, and i have to force close it. I've tried --reset-config and i've also tried numerous versions from the aur, including GIT, SVN & Phonon. All of them have the same problem. I also tried running it as another user but still had the issue.

When i run it from the terminal, i don't get any error messages.

So last night i decided to try E17 for fun, and tried vlc in there and it worked perfectly. I've searched and searched about this and couldn't find anything. So this is my last resort, anybody got any ideas?

Btw, i'm using KDE 4.3, not kdemod.

Last edited by Mountainjew (2009-11-15 18:17:26)

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davidlondonuk

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Registered: 2009-06-24

Posts: 49

Re: VLC crashes on KDE

I had this problem on XFCE4, I just got rid of VLC until the problem is sorted. If you want a decent little media player in the meamwhile try Whaaw, its in AUR.

Last edited by davidlondonuk (2009-11-15 20:16:05)

Mountainjew

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2008-08-24

Posts: 405

Re: VLC crashes on KDE

Yeah i was gonna check it out. I had been using smplayer instead, and think it's actually better than vlc, but vsync doesn't work for some reason.

Edit: Hmmm, doesn't seem like it's limited to VLC either. Virtualbox is doing the same thing when i try to mount an iso

Last edited by Mountainjew (2009-11-15 21:02:54)

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