[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?
>
Further to the vlc question; these are the components installed on my 
system:

[lcl at belexeuli ~]$ rpm -qa | grep vlc
vlc-plugin-pulse-2.0.1-1.mga2.tainted
lib64vlc5-2.0.1-1.mga2.tainted
vlc-plugin-theora-2.0.1-1.mga2.tainted
vlc-plugin-common-2.0.1-1.mga2.tainted
svlc-2.0.1-1.mga2.tainted
vlc-2.0.1-1.mga2.tainted
lib64vlccore5-2.0.1-1.mga2.tainted