Hello! New here but I couldn't find an answer to the problem I have anywhere else.
I've recently been having problems with VLC which I use as my main media player for video files. When I go to launch a video file from the file manager VLC will not start up. Even thou it showed the little VLC icon next to the mouse as it loaded it never came up. I tried launching it from the menu but it didn't work either. I can only get it to launch via the terminal. So I tried opening a video file from the terminal with vlc. This caused an error that told me to check the logs (which was a hole other issue trying to find VLC's logs) but when I finally got a log file it told me the error was a filesystem error. And that the video file didn't exist. That makes no sense, I know it exist. I can even open it in VLC when I launch VLC from the terminal and then open the file from it's menu.
It's really annoying having to use VLC this way. I wish it would just launch when I click on the video file or when I click on it in the menu or my dock. It use to be that way on my system but it recently broke and became like it is now.
I've heard that I need to install browser-plugin-vlc
but it didn't have an installation candidate.
I'm kinda at a lost right now as to what I should do, that's why I'm here with the hope to get some help.
Cheers!
I've recently been having problems with VLC which I use as my main media player for video files. When I go to launch a video file from the file manager VLC will not start up. Even thou it showed the little VLC icon next to the mouse as it loaded it never came up. I tried launching it from the menu but it didn't work either. I can only get it to launch via the terminal. So I tried opening a video file from the terminal with vlc. This caused an error that told me to check the logs (which was a hole other issue trying to find VLC's logs) but when I finally got a log file it told me the error was a filesystem error. And that the video file didn't exist. That makes no sense, I know it exist. I can even open it in VLC when I launch VLC from the terminal and then open the file from it's menu.
It's really annoying having to use VLC this way. I wish it would just launch when I click on the video file or when I click on it in the menu or my dock. It use to be that way on my system but it recently broke and became like it is now.
I've heard that I need to install browser-plugin-vlc
Code:
sudo apt install browser-plugin-vlc
I'm kinda at a lost right now as to what I should do, that's why I'm here with the hope to get some help.
Cheers!
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