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seth

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From: Don't DM me only for attention

Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 73,695

Re: [SOLVED] VLC is crashing immediately after start from menu

@xerxes_ vlc works, the problem is that the KDE implementation of xdg-open closes its input and VLC apparently does not like that
@borgch,

Did you btw file a bug against vlc?

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xerxes_

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Registered: 2018-04-29

Posts: 1,029

Re: [SOLVED] VLC is crashing immediately after start from menu

There is xdg-open substitute: 'gio open file.mp4'

borgch

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Registered: 2017-10-10

Posts: 39

Re: [SOLVED] VLC is crashing immediately after start from menu

Did you btw file a bug against vlc?

Still no, I'll do it today

borgch

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Registered: 2017-10-10

Posts: 39

Re: [SOLVED] VLC is crashing immediately after start from menu

VLC has been updated today, and the problem has gone - thank you very much for the advices!