just a point more regarding vlc. In my karmic pc , vlc often hangs while playing .avi and .mkv videos . Though it corrects itself in a few seconds , it's really irritating while watchin a movie. Any fixes??
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 4:35 PM, Subin Sebastian <subinsebast...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hello friends, > I've vlc player installed on my system. (ubuntu 9.10) > ... > $ vlc --version > VLC media player 1.1.0-git The Luggage > VLC version 1.1.0-git The Luggage (exported) > Compiled by buildd on hassium.ppa (Mar 2 2010 19:22:47) > Compiler: gcc version 4.4.1 (Ubuntu 4.4.1-4ubuntu9) > This program comes with NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. > You may redistribute it under the terms of the GNU General Public License; > see the file named COPYING for details. > Written by the VideoLAN team; see the AUTHORS file. > ... > Since it is a ppa version, it may have bugs, but the problem is, > It does not play flash video files. I tried running vlc from a normal > terminal, and on playing flv files it doesn't dump any error! For AVI or mp4 > files it dumps errors like "h264 is missing, can't fix it!" etc. But the > strange thing is that, I tried $sudo vlc, it plays everything including > flash videos without any problems. And it was for the first time I run vlc > as root. Now amazingly everything is fixed!!! Vlc runs in normal mode > without any errors!!! Do anyone know what could be the possible causes? Just > need to know :) > ---------------------------------------- > Freedom Is The Only Law... > ---------------------------------------- > Subin Sebastian > College of Engineering > Munnar - 685612 > +91-944-6475826 > > -- > "Freedom is the only law". > "Freedom Unplugged" > http://www.ilug-tvm.org > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "ilug-tvm" group. > To post to this group, send email to ilug-tvm@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > ilug-tvm-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > > For details visit the website: www.ilug-tvm.org or the google group page: > http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en > -- "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ilug-tvm" group. To post to this group, send email to ilug-tvm@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to ilug-tvm-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For details visit the website: www.ilug-tvm.org or the google group page: http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en
