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fede

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Registered: 2007-06-29

Posts: 126

[SOLVED] vlc - no video picture / image / display

Hello,

I cannot see any video images on vlc: they seem to play and the sound works, but there is no image.
I have tried all output modules within vlc settings, and the same thing happens always.
Kaffeine plays the same videos fine.

I am using a current system with kdemod. I've installed xorg-server 1.3.0.0-3 and xf86-video-intel from testing, since that was the only way I could find to make my widescreen (1440x900, viewsonic vg1921wm) work with my video card (Intel 965).

The same setup worked fine about a week ago under arch64.

EDIT: Another observation: the video track (under video menu) always starts disabled. If I enable it when playing, nothing happens, and I can't enable it before playing since the video menu is then empty.

Thanks!

Last edited by fede (2007-07-09 15:23:25)

bluePoet

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From: Düsseldorf, Germany

Registered: 2006-01-09

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Re: [SOLVED] vlc - no video picture / image / display

I had the same problem. I deleted ~/.vlc and everything worked like before...

fede

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Registered: 2007-06-29

Posts: 126

Re: [SOLVED] vlc - no video picture / image / display

Thanks for the reply, bluePoet,

I've just tried that, but it didn't fix the problem.

fede

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Registered: 2007-06-29

Posts: 126

Re: [SOLVED] vlc - no video picture / image / display

I have just solved this problem: I compiled vlc from abs (didn't  change anything) and it now works.
My self compiled package works; the one from the official repos still doesn't. I've checked this after compiling, since I thought that perhaps the dependencies I had to install to make the package with abs had solved the problem. They hadn't: if I sync to official repos with pacman -S vlc, the problem is there; if I update to my local (abs) version with pacman -U vlc-0.8.6.c.... it works fine.

I find this strange: aren't the packages we install from repos the binary versions of what we compile with abs? Just a newbie question...
In any case, abs is great!

warlord

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Registered: 2007-07-04

Posts: 58

Re: [SOLVED] vlc - no video picture / image / display

I also solved the problem with compiling from abs whithout changing anything.
Now vlc can play video files.

steven

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Registered: 2007-07-17

Posts: 56

Re: [SOLVED] vlc - no video picture / image / display

I would also like to confirm that recompiling vlc using ABS fixed the problem for me too.

skottish

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Registered: 2006-06-16

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Re: [SOLVED] vlc - no video picture / image / display

I posted this in another thread also: The more VLC relies on FFMPEG and x264, the more it's becoming dependent on certain versions of external libraries. In fact, some time in the last two or three x264 subversion releases, FFMPEG, MPlayer, and VLC, have to be recompiled against it everytime I upgrade.

Edit-->>

Well, I just upgraded x264 right after I wrote this (rev. 667), and it didn't replace 'libx264.so.56' with a newer version. In consequence, nothing broke this time.

Last edited by skottish (2007-07-18 00:34:30)