Re: VLC unable to open MRL

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 11/07/2010 06:36 AM, Matthias Andersson wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I have installed debian and activated the debian-multimedia.org
> repository. I've installed the gstreamer packages ugly, bad, very bad.
> I then installed vlc but now when I try to play a .m3p or .avi file in
> vlc is always gives the error message "VLC is unable to open MRL" but
> the same file works perfectly in Totem media player.
>
> What am I missing?

vlc has always been "old reliable" for me when playing video, but 
honestly I've never tried playing audio files on it.  (Aqualung and 
mpc are my audio players of choice.)

Run it from a terminal window so that you can see any errors.

$ apt-cache policy vlc
vlc:
  Installed: 1.1.3-1
  Candidate: 1.1.3-1
  Version table:
     1.1.4-1 0
          1 http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ 
../project/experimental/main amd64 Packages
 *** 1.1.3-1 0
        500 http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ sid/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status


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