I broke VLC =(

[Ozymandias_117]

I've been messing with customizing my desktop appearance, so I installed docky and compizconfig-settings-manager. I then decided to remove docky and try awn, then removed it and put cairo-dock. After all this, VLC stopped working (When I open it on it's own, it works fine, if I try to play a video, it crashes). I've tried removing cairo-dock, setting visual effects to none, purging both vlc and ubuntu-restricted-extras and reinstalling. None of this has helped, does anyone have any other ideas?

[Sir Jasper]

Hi Ozymandias_117,

I have no clue at all; however, your helping other Forum members has not gone unnoticed - so here is a bump.

My regards

[bruno9779]

What graphic card do you have? and which driver do you have installed?

You could always try and compile VLC yourself.

here is the source : http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-sources.html

and here the compile instructions : http://wiki.videolan.org/UnixCompile

and here you have a link to build from git: http://www.webupd8.org/2010/01/how-t...om-git-in.html

[durand]

Have you tried opening it in the terminal? Open Applications > Accessories > Terminal, type vlc and press enter. Then open your video as usual. What errors do you get?

[Ozymandias_117]

@bruno9779 ATI Radeon HD 4770 I downloaded their drivers from their site and installed them. I haven't tried compiling, but since it worked beforehand, wouldn't the problem be elsewhere?

@durand vlc will open just fine, only problem is, it won't play anything. It doesn't give any error messages, just closes whenever I try to start a video

[durand]

Try vlc --verbose 2 maybe?

[theozzlives]

I think durand is right, try to run it from terminal. Your choice of the dock you use shouldn't break VLC.

[terabyte1]

I suggest that you go into your system> administration> Synaptic Package Manager and type 'VLC' (without the quote marks) into the seach bar which is near the top of the Synaptic Package Manager(SPM) Box on the extreme right. (It is vertically oblong and has a 'V' in it), click on this box and type in VLC and click on search. When you find the VLC program, if the box next to it has a tick in it already, remove it and hit apply. Then when the SPM completes, do the search again as above, and put a tick in the box next to it, then hit apply at the top of the SPM.


What you have affectively done is unloaded VLC. Then re-loaded VLC in a fresh space. You should find that it will now work.


Cheers!

terabyte1