On Fri, 15 May 2020, Celejar wrote:
On Thu, 14 May 2020 22:05:41 -0400 (EDT) moelmoel2714 <moelmoel2714@gmail.com> wrote:Greets! not sure how I got into this bind but I seem to have lost the 'access modules' that allow vlc to view video files (and likely do many other things; I know I cannot convert video). when I try to look at an mp4, I get Your input can't be opened: VLC is unable to open the MRL 'file:///home/davisf/dwhelper/video.mp4'. Check the log for details. I don't know where the log is. I have noticed that there are very fewTry Tools -> Messages See here for more information: https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?t=97476
thanks. tried it but didn't seem to do anything. that's likely because the video file doesn't run so nothing to log. I get the error message above in the window, no log file is written. verbosity set to '2', etc.
'access modules' available, whereas there are a bunch in vlc on another machine. I am guessing that's the problem; maybe wrong diagnosis. I have tried purging vlc and reinstalling without effect - I generally use apt and apt-get. I looked at a bunch of vlc stuff in synaptic and installed some things I might use, some plugins, but to no effect on the present problem. I have not restarted the session or the computer. this is Debian Buster using 4qos-trinity, a variant of Trinity-Desktop, a variant of KDE derived from KDE3. vlc is installed from deb-multimedia. it's 3.0.10 Vetinari.Why deb-multimedia? Buster has 3.0.10 in the official repos:
no longer recall; pulled it over from a former install.
https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/vlc
recent discussions here about 'buster' and 'bullseye'. my systems have 'buster'; 'bullseye' is for the cutting edge?
vlc worked fine before I did something I know not what. and it works fine on the other computer. but, to repeat, the working system has a ton of modules listed but this one has four or so.
really appreciate your advice! f. -- Felmon Davis