[Mageia-discuss] Playing flv files

[Len Lawrence]

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

On my system that directory contains a qt4 configuration file.
Restarting vlc might regenerate the contents and might help with the
missing module problem - shooting in the dark here though.

And, if you want to use skins, remember to install svlc.