Re: Help with VLC - no longer plays video files
On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 01:56:50PM +0100, andy wrote:
> Hi
>
> I cannot seem to get VLC to display the video when I am playing it.
> Instead, it only seems to play it as an audio file. The progress bar
> moves, but there is no video display. The settings seem to be fine, at
> least to my untutored eye. This is the same regardless of the format I
> am playing *.flv, *.mpg, *.avi, *.wmv etc.
I'll bet you're using files from debian-multimedia.org. Their libraries are
no longer compatible with the VLC distributed with Debian. See the newsbox
at that site for more information.
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