Problems with VLC

[chinmay152]

When i try to start vlc, it does not start... i went to the terminal and typed in vlc and got the following message:

VLC media player 1.1.9 The Luggage (revision exported)
Blocked: call to unsetenv("DBUS_ACTIVATION_ADDRESS")
Blocked: call to unsetenv("DBUS_ACTIVATION_BUS_TYPE")
Blocked: call to setlocale(6, "")
Warning: call to srand(1316288432)
Warning: call to rand()
Blocked: call to setlocale(6, "")

(process:11157): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library.
Using the fallback 'C' locale.
Blocked: call to setlocale(6, "")
[0xb4b12454] xml xml error: XML parser error (line 1) : Document is empty

[0x886389c] skins2 interface error: no skins found : exiting

Please help!

[wolfen69]

It seems it might be related to X somehow.
Try

sudo apt-get remove --purge vdpau-video
then reboot. You can always put it back if it didn't work.

[chinmay152]

Not working :( :(