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cisforcojo

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From: China

Registered: 2009-02-01

Posts: 36

Bizarre VLC problem after uninstalling Pulseaudio

After uninstalling Pulseaudio, when I right click on a video file and select Open with... VLC, the file cannot be opened. But if I then go to Media->Open File in VLC and select the same file, it plays fine. In the log it's saying there is no such file or directory which is not true.

What could be causing this?

Ranguvar

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Registered: 2008-08-12

Posts: 2,563

Re: Bizarre VLC problem after uninstalling Pulseaudio

EDIT: Whoops, realized you said uninstall.

Try deleting your VLC config folder (I think it's ~/.vlc) after backing it up.

Last edited by Ranguvar (2009-02-15 15:34:24)

cisforcojo

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From: China

Registered: 2009-02-01

Posts: 36

Re: Bizarre VLC problem after uninstalling Pulseaudio

Hmm.. it's ~/.config/vlc
I just renamed it to vlc-backup and then reconfigured VLC but had exactly the same problem. I'm not sure what is going on.

EDIT: Solved. It was a problem with the path that VLC couldn't parse. It can't handle [], those are respectively B and D in VLC's path

Thanks for your suggestion. I'd also like to know how that project you're working on is going! I'm looking to learn more about encryption ...

EDIT 2: Is it possible for me to mark this thread as solved?

Last edited by cisforcojo (2009-02-18 05:06:40)

Ranguvar

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Registered: 2008-08-12

Posts: 2,563

Re: Bizarre VLC problem after uninstalling Pulseaudio

I'm waiting for a more stable 2.6.29 kernel to begin, so I can test ext4 better and test btrfs But I'll probably do it once with an rc, 'cause I'm bored. </offtopic>