VLC won't play videos
Posted: 26. Nov 2015, 21:19
Hello. I'm pretty new to Salix and I'm loving it so far. I used Slackware for a while but lately I'm getting lazy.
Here's my problem: I can open any video in VLC and it shows the first frame of the video but won't go any further. I can't click any of the buttons or open the right-click menu. I can't even close VLC without killing it. From the terminal I get the following output:
That display error seems significant but I'm not sure what to do about it. I have all the gst-plugins installed. I have an AMD graphics card and on another computer with an nvidia card it works fine. Not sure if that means anything.
Any assistance would be appreciated. Thanks!

Here's my problem: I can open any video in VLC and it shows the first frame of the video but won't go any further. I can't click any of the buttons or open the right-click menu. I can't even close VLC without killing it. From the terminal I get the following output:
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VLC media player 2.1.2 Rincewind (revision 2.1.2-0-ga4c4876)
[0x25cb2d8] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface.
[mpeg4 @ 0x7f7248c18220] Video uses a non-standard and wasteful way to store B-frames ('packed B-frames'). Consider using a tool like VirtualDub or avidemux to fix it.
Fontconfig warning: FcPattern object size does not accept value "0"
Fontconfig warning: FcPattern object size does not accept value "0"
[0x7f7224001248] xcb_xv vout display error: no available XVideo adaptor
Fontconfig warning: FcPattern object size does not accept value "0"
Fontconfig warning: FcPattern object size does not accept value "0"
Any assistance would be appreciated. Thanks!