On Fri, 15 May 2020, Celejar wrote:
On Thu, 14 May 2020 22:05:41 -0400 (EDT)
moelmoel2714 <moelmoel2...@gmail.com> wrote:
Greets!
not sure how I got into this bind but I seem to have lost the 'access
modules' that allow vlc to view video files (and likely do many other
things; I know I cannot convert video).
when I try to look at an mp4, I get
Your input can't be opened:
VLC is unable to open the MRL
'file:///home/davisf/dwhelper/video.mp4'. Check the log for details.
I don't know where the log is. I have noticed that there are very few
Try Tools -> Messages
See here for more information:
https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?t=97476
thanks. tried it but didn't seem to do anything. that's likely because
the video file doesn't run so nothing to log. I get the error message
above in the window, no log file is written. verbosity set to '2',
etc.
'access modules' available, whereas there are a bunch in vlc on
another machine. I am guessing that's the problem; maybe wrong
diagnosis.
I have tried purging vlc and reinstalling without effect - I generally
use apt and apt-get. I looked at a bunch of vlc stuff in synaptic and
installed some things I might use, some plugins, but to no effect on
the present problem.
I have not restarted the session or the computer.
this is Debian Buster using 4qos-trinity, a variant of
Trinity-Desktop, a variant of KDE derived from KDE3.
vlc is installed from deb-multimedia. it's 3.0.10 Vetinari.
Why deb-multimedia? Buster has 3.0.10 in the official repos:
no longer recall; pulled it over from a former install.
https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/vlc
recent discussions here about 'buster' and 'bullseye'. my systems have
'buster'; 'bullseye' is for the cutting edge?
vlc worked fine before I did something I know not what. and it works
fine on the other computer. but, to repeat, the working system has a
ton of modules listed but this one has four or so.
really appreciate your advice!
f.
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Felmon Davis
