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Topic: [solved] VLC player is broken

So i added the debian multimedia repo's and after i upgraded my vlc player now shrinks the videos to the right side of the screen and plays in black and white. subtitles still play in correct spots though. i would like to keep vlc and not use a different media player so recommending a different player doesnt help. thanks for reading.

here is a screenshot of whats happening.
http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/368/2010062112771586181280x.th.png

Last edited by lastgreatsea (2010-06-22 00:30:51)

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Re: [solved] VLC player is broken

What version do you have? I have 1.0.6 with no problems.

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Re: [solved] VLC player is broken

I read somewhere here that the Debian Multimedia repos are not all that good.

I would suggest you remove vlc completely, then remove the Debian Multimedia repo from your sources list and then reload vlc from the repos that Statler uses by default.

I have VLC media player 1.0.6 Goldeneye

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Re: [solved] VLC player is broken

^ That is correct. The debian multimedia repo breaks vlc but from memory it is one of the dependencies that breaks it. The statler repos contain all the multimedia codecs you are likely to need so I wouldn't use the debian multimedia repo if possible.

I'd suggest trying the following

sudo apt-get remove vlc
sudo apt-get autoremove

Comment out the multimedia repo in your sources list then

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install vlc

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Re: [solved] VLC player is broken

thank you omns and sector11. i followed what you guys said and it fixed the problem, cant thank you guys enough.

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Re: [solved] VLC player is broken

lastgreatsea wrote:

thank you omns and sector11. i followed what you guys said and it fixed the problem, cant thank you guys enough.

You are welcome.  You and I both learned something here.

omns gave you a "How To" do what I suggested you do.

I have to remember to do that in the future.

Glad you are all fixed up.

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Re: [solved] VLC player is broken

i'm currently using #! 9.04.01
is it possible to install vlc from the statler repos?
if yes, how do you do it? thanks

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Re: [solved] VLC player is broken

If you just want to get an updated VLC, read these threads:

http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/post/23392/#p23392
http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic … ies-error/

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Re: [solved] VLC player is broken

yes, i have tried those but i haven't gotten them to work with my netbook so i'm looking for other options
but since you have put emphasis on those, i might as well try them again, i may be doing something wrong

but just out of curiosity, does using statler (or debian) repos for 9.04.01 not advisable or not recommended?
id like to try the new stuff there before i update to statler when it becomes stable, thanks



update:
after following the two threads, this is what i get in synaptic

"An error occured"

E: /var/cache/apt/archives/vlc_1.0.2~0.git20090807~ppa1~jaunty1_i386.deb: trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/vlc/video_output/libcaca_plugin.so', which is also in package vlc-nox
E: /var/cache/apt/archives/vlc-nox_1.0.2~0.git20090807~ppa1~jaunty1_i386.deb: trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/vlc/codec/libx264_plugin.so', which is also in package vlc
E: /var/cache/apt/archives/vlc-data_1.0.2~0.git20090807~ppa1~jaunty1_all.deb: trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/man1/vlc-wrapper.1.gz', which is also in package vlc-nox

i wonder what i'm doing wrong sad

Last edited by bensoliman (2010-09-01 12:35:40)

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Re: [solved] VLC player is broken

What happens if you delete those files first then install VLC?

sudo rm /usr/lib/vlc/video_output/libcaca_plugin.so
sudo rm /usr/lib/vlc/codec/libx264_plugin.so
sudo rm /usr/share/man/man1/vlc-wrapper.1.gz
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Re: [solved] VLC player is broken

oh i see, thanks for the suggestion anonymous, it gave me another idea
i decided to completely remove vlc and re-installed using the methods mentioned in the two posts
vlc 1.1.0 is now up and running, thank you for your adive and patience

cheers!

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