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hatewindows
December 7th, 2009, 02:47 AM
Hello all and happy holidays--I have an issue with an AVI file here--VLC AND TOTEM wont play it--Is there a simple fix to get it to work? VLC says it cant open the file.. Thanks so much for any input... Mark

andrew.46
December 7th, 2009, 07:49 AM
Hi Mark,


VLC says it cant open the file.. Thanks so much for any input... Mark

Can you attempt to open the file from the commandline as follows:


cvlc -v my_file.avi

and post the command + full terminal output here?

Andrew