Re: VLC player doesn't playback correctly

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Fri, 26 Nov 2010 16:35:33 +0200, Matthias Andersson wrote:

> I've installed vlc 1.1.3 according to the instructions at
> www.videolan.org/vlc/download-debian.html for unstable.
>
> Now the problem is that all videos play black and white and the picture
> is crammed to a quarter of the window to the left. I've tried all the
> different settings but to no avail.

Black/White & jolted video
http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=67743&p=225152

And maybe also:

Important notice for Debian/Ubuntu users
http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=70719

I wonder why VideoLAN does not provide Debian packages directly.

> Another problem is that when I mount a partition on another machine and
> try to play a video from there I always get a "Unable to open MRL"
> error.

Check out this thread:

VLC unable to open MRL
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2010/11/thrd2.html#00498

Wait... that were you :-?

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón