opening vlc player in terminal window

[Catoga]

when my computer finished updating from ubuntu to kubuntu...a few of my programs don't run. For instance, vlc player...it won't open and dragon player won't work. Does anyone have the codes for updating vlc player and dragon player?

[Bucky Ball]

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Also, not sure what your thread title has to do with your post. Title mentions opening VLC in a terminal (open terminal, type 'vlc') but your post mentions nothing about it. I can change the title to reflect your problem more appropriately if you'd like.

Try this, one after the other, in a terminal:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

If there's any packages/apps that have an upgrade waiting that will upgrade them, and NOT the release so don't panic. Good luck.

[josephmills]

what happens when you open your terminal (ctrl+alt+t)and enter in

vlc -v

what is printed to the terminal screen can you paste that here ?

[Catoga]

@josephmills....this is what it says....VLC media player 2.0.6 Twoflower (revision 2.0.6-0-gbe9623c)[0x8509908] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface.

[deadflowr]

What is the output of just running "vlc" in the terminal?

Does it launch anything, or give you text outputs?

[josephmills]

there should be more then that -v just means list things verbose aka debug well kinda but there should be way more things at least a seg fault if it does not launch

try again

[Catoga]

@Bucky Ball...sorry about the color font...my favorite color is brown...didnt think it would be a problem. after sudo apt-get update...and sudo apt-get upgrade...vlc player and dragon player not opening.
any more ideas?

[Catoga]

@dead flowr...when i typed vlc -v...all that was shown was "VLC media player 2.0.6 Twoflower (revision 2.0.6-0-gbe9623c)[0x8509908] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface.".....in reference to what is the output of running vlc in the terminal window...im not sure...what do i have to do exactly to get the output?

[Catoga]

@josephmills...when i typed it again..it says the same thing..VLC media player 2.0.6 Twoflower (revision 2.0.6-0-gbe9623c)[0x8509908] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface.....do you think i need to reinstall vlc player? and if so, do you know the terminal codes? when i checked in my ubuntu software center...it says that vlc player is installed.

[deadflowr]

Do you get a vlc window to open at least?

If you try running a video or something using the cvlc command like such

cvlc path/tovideo/file.avi,or-something

Does it open a video screen, or do nothing?