[Mageia-discuss] Playing .flv files (M2)

Mon Aug 27 18:58:23 CEST 2012

Hi Anne,
+
+On Mon, 27 Aug 2012 12:09:47 +0100
+Anne Wilson <annew at kde.org> wrote:
+
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+> In the past I've viewed .flv files in VLC.  Yesterday a friend sent me
+> such a file, and I was surprised that I couldn't manage to play it at
+> all.  No error message or anything - VLC just sits there waiting for
+> me to tell it what to do.  If I use the menu to point it to the file,
+> the same thing happens - or rather it doesn't happen: nothing changes.
+> 
+> What am I missing?
+> 
+
+Did you enable the tainted repository and upgraded VLC From there?
+
+Regards,
+
+	Shlomi Fish
+
+> Anne
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+> hNgAnjz9cDqIuUY7lEeUM61JtTVkp7r7
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