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rushikesh988
June 18th, 2009, 03:50 PM
Hello friends I got a new problem now ....
Whenever I open any media file, it open In a new window of VLC player ...


I want to turn it Off it should open in a one window only (just like VLC acts as in windows)



do any cool body have any solution ;)

mynameinc
June 18th, 2009, 04:09 PM
What is VLC player, and is it downloaded or pre-installed with Ubuntu? If pre-installed, where can I find it?

rushikesh988
June 18th, 2009, 04:20 PM
What is VLC player, and is it downloaded or pre-installed with Ubuntu? If pre-installed, where can I find it?


VLC Player is my favorite player to play audio and video media..

I installed it manually by myself ...

You can find it at

videolan.org

lovinglinux
June 18th, 2009, 05:36 PM
Hello friends I got a new problem now ....
Whenever I open any media file, it open In a new window of VLC player ...

I want to turn it Off it should open in a one window only (just like VLC acts as in windows)

do any cool body have any solution ;)

It's a known bug. There is a PPA repository somewhere that fixes this issue, but I don't remember the address.


What is VLC player, and is it downloaded or pre-installed with Ubuntu? If pre-installed, where can I find it?

Click here (apt:vlc) [apt-get] to install it.

BTW, I prefer smplayer (apt:smplayer) [apt-get]

Arup
June 18th, 2009, 07:23 PM
https://launchpad.net/~c-korn/+archive/vlc

Before installing from this do a sudo apt-get --purge remove vlc in case its installed.

HappyFeet
June 18th, 2009, 08:20 PM
This is an easy fix. Just go to Tools>Preferences>Check off "Allow only one instance". Then click save button.

Tamara Perera
June 18th, 2009, 09:29 PM
have you tried with the latest version of ubuntu named jaunty jacklop. You must try it because here the latest version of VLC is included. I also hated the old version of VLC once but I think now VLC is more cool than anyothers multimedia software.

taylorsmithereens
June 18th, 2009, 09:32 PM
Thanks, this problem was really bugging me and I'm glad to have fixed it so easily.

lovinglinux
June 19th, 2009, 12:59 AM
Never mind.