[Mageia-discuss] Playing flv files - correction

Sun Sep 2 10:30:56 CEST 2012

On 02/09/12 17:28, Len Lawrence wrote:
+> On 02/09/12 07:08, Phil wrote:
+>> Thank you for reading this.
+>>
+>> Someone recently asked a question about this very topic but the answer
+>> didn't help me.
+>>
+>> I have always been able to play flv files, with various players, until
+>> Mageia 2. For example, this is the error that VLC generates:
+>>
+>> VLC media player 2.0.1 Twoflower (revision 2.0.1-0-gf432547)
+>> [0x841e920] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use
+>> 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface.
+>> [0x84692d8] qt4 interface error: Unable to load extensions module
+>>
+>> I tried cvlc and although it didn't generate an error message it also
+>> didn't seem do anything either.
+>>
+>> The "extension module" seems like a likely place to start but I cannot
+>> see anything useful in MCC. Can anyone help?
+>>
+> I have seen this in the past. Cannot remember what the fix was.
+>
+> cvlc works for me.
+>
+> Poking around on the Ubuntu forums I saw this suggestion to get vlc
+> going after a different problem:
+>
+> rm -rf ~/.config/vlc
+
+I do have that directory. I deleted it an ran vlc and svlc, neither 
+worked, and the directory was recreated.
+
+-- 
+Regards,
+Phil
+