preliminaries: my version of VLC is whatever is in the Saucy repos. I can't get any other version (see the last paragraph in this post)
I used to use VLC for playing videos, but I switched to Kaffeine as I like some of its features and it doesn't crash randomly like VLC does (unless you try to play wmvs...which I don't!)
I've continued to use VLC for playing plain audio files without any problems. As I find the default VLC interface rather ugly I installed a few skins and until today was using one.
It started to annoy me because I have my close/minimise/maximise buttons on the left (like OS X) and the skin didn't, and also the order of the playback buttons, etc wasn't customisable. So today I opened up VLC, switched back to the default interface and customised the buttons to my liking, modified a few hotkeys, and played some MP3s. All good.
I then tried to play an MP4 video. The audio worked, but the image didn't update, staying 'stuck' on the first frame. I closed VLC and tried again; this time I just got a black screen, no image at all.
A google search shows this problem seems to be pretty common, but none of the answers I was able to find have helped at all. I tried uninstalling and purging VLC, then reinstalling it; resetting preferences; I saw one solution that involved installing the kubuntu restricted extras package, so I tried that. Nothing helped. VLC used to play videos just fine (including when I was using a skin), so I'm not sure what happened.
I wanted to download the latest version of VLC from the website, but it's an 'apt link' (or whatever they're called) which asks to be opened with an application. I can never use those things cause the window that pops up for choosing an application just provides a file browser, rather than a list of apps to choose from. (Maybe I'm being daft here? how does this work?)
I used to use VLC for playing videos, but I switched to Kaffeine as I like some of its features and it doesn't crash randomly like VLC does (unless you try to play wmvs...which I don't!)
I've continued to use VLC for playing plain audio files without any problems. As I find the default VLC interface rather ugly I installed a few skins and until today was using one.
It started to annoy me because I have my close/minimise/maximise buttons on the left (like OS X) and the skin didn't, and also the order of the playback buttons, etc wasn't customisable. So today I opened up VLC, switched back to the default interface and customised the buttons to my liking, modified a few hotkeys, and played some MP3s. All good.
I then tried to play an MP4 video. The audio worked, but the image didn't update, staying 'stuck' on the first frame. I closed VLC and tried again; this time I just got a black screen, no image at all.
A google search shows this problem seems to be pretty common, but none of the answers I was able to find have helped at all. I tried uninstalling and purging VLC, then reinstalling it; resetting preferences; I saw one solution that involved installing the kubuntu restricted extras package, so I tried that. Nothing helped. VLC used to play videos just fine (including when I was using a skin), so I'm not sure what happened.
I wanted to download the latest version of VLC from the website, but it's an 'apt link' (or whatever they're called) which asks to be opened with an application. I can never use those things cause the window that pops up for choosing an application just provides a file browser, rather than a list of apps to choose from. (Maybe I'm being daft here? how does this work?)
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