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sheng

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Registered: 2009-02-19

Posts: 28

VLC does not working.

I get a video player VLC from Archlinux Packages.

When I click the VLC's ico, VLC does not working, and nothing happen.

And I open the processes panel, can't find VCL progress, too.

rickdg

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From: The Lowlands

Registered: 2011-01-01

Posts: 24

Re: VLC does not working.

Try running it from command line, what errors does it give?

wonder

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From: Bucharest, Romania

Registered: 2006-07-05

Posts: 5,941

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Re: VLC does not working.

@sheng if when installing vlc you didn't had a pacman -Syu vlc and only pacman -Sy vlc then is your problem

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sheng

Member

Registered: 2009-02-19

Posts: 28

Re: VLC does not working.

thanks, I find the cause.

[root@myhost ~]# vlc
VLC is not supposed to be run as root. Sorry.
If you need to use real-time priorities and/or privileged TCP ports
you can use vlc-wrapper (make sure it is Set-UID root and
cannot be run by non-trusted users first).

ngoonee

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From: Between Thailand and Singapore

Registered: 2009-03-17

Posts: 7,354

Re: VLC does not working.

thanks, I find the cause.

[root@myhost ~]# vlc
VLC is not supposed to be run as root. Sorry.
If you need to use real-time priorities and/or privileged TCP ports
you can use vlc-wrapper (make sure it is Set-UID root and
cannot be run by non-trusted users first).

Don't run as root, please. Even running as a normal user with a blank password is better than running as root.

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sheng

Member

Registered: 2009-02-19

Posts: 28

Re: VLC does not working.

Yeah, I have use command "useradd" to add a new normal user.

lilsirecho

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Registered: 2003-10-24

Posts: 5,000

Re: VLC does not working.

Sheng:

If you desire to run as root, it is possible to do so by modifying with  abs PKGBUILD.

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