VLC player wont work

Hi I am a newbee to Linux. I installed VLC player through yum...now when I click on VLC player from applications menu nothing happens....there is no message in /var/log/messages..... when I run it my from terminal window with su , it runs, but if I run it with my user it generates an error.

what could be the reason

 

whats the error it generates ?

 

Here is the error message:

control/librc_plugin.so
00363000-004c6000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 16810142 /usr/lib/vlc/gui/libwxwidgets_plugin.so
004c6000-004da000 rwxp 00163000 fd:00 16810142 /usr/lib/vlc/gui/libwxwidgets_plugin.so
004da000-004de000 rwxp 004da000 00:00 0
004de000-00575000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 14735601 /usr/lib/libwx_gtk2u_adv-2.6.so.0.4.0
00575000-0057e000 rwxp 00096000 fd:00 14735601 /usr/lib/libwx_gtk2u_adv-2.6.so.0.4.0
0057e000-0057f000 rwxp 0057e000 00:00 0
0057f000-00591000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 28706303 /lib/libz.so.1.2.3
00591000-00592000 rwxp 00011000 fd:00 28706303 /lib/libz.so.1.2.3
00592000-00596000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 28706330 /lib/libgthread-2.0.so.0.1400.6
00596000-00597000 rwxp 00003000 fd:00 28706330 /lib/libgthread-2.0.so.0.1400.6
00597000-00599000 r-xp 00000000 fd:00 24248368 /usr/lib/libXinerama.so.1.0.0
00599000-0059a000 rwSegmentation fault


even with su it runs but after some time it hangs & the error on terminal window is :
(.:7325): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid unclassed pointer in cast to `GtkObject'
vlc: pcm_params.c:2351: sndrv_pcm_hw_params: Assertion `err >= 0' failed.
3614fc6f-8756-2a26-59d7b07c-62606869 is dumped

 

Hi Ezy,

please paste the output of

Code:

ls /etc/yum.repos.d/

and

Code:

rpm -q vlc

Best regards,

Olli

 

Hi o.meyer, Here is the output:

[Ezy@localhost ~]$ ls /etc/yum.repos.d/
fedora-development.repo fedora-updates-testing.repo livna-testing.repo
fedora.repo livna-devel.repo
fedora-updates.repo livna.repo

&

[Ezy@localhost ~]$ rpm -q vlc
vlc-0.8.6e-1.lvn8

I hope you will be able to help me out

 

Hi Ezy,

a try...

Please install the following package:

Code:

alsa-plugins-pulseaudio

Add your useraccount to the group "pulse-access" and "pulse-rt"

Please note that you have to log out and in again to take the changes effect - afterwards look what happens when you try to start VLC from the gnome menu. Additionally paste the output of:

Code:

cat /etc/alsa/pulse-default.conf

and

Code:

yum list installed | grep wx

Best regards,

Olli

PS: I've the same package installed on my system and it's working without problems.

 

alsa-plugins-pulseaudio already installed

Hi Olli
I checked, alsa-plugins-pulseaudio is already installed...please see the output of

Code:

[Ezy@localhost ~]$ cat /etc/alsa/pulse-default.conf
# PulseAudio plugin configuration

# Let's create a virtual device "pulse" for mixer and PCM

pcm.pulse {
    type pulse
}

ctl.pulse {
    type pulse
}

# Let's make it the default!

pcm.!default {
    type pulse
}

ctl.!default {
    type pulse
}

and

Code:

[Ezy@localhost ~]$ yum list installed | grep wx
compat-wxGTK26.i386                      2.6.4-0.8              installed       
wxGTK.i386                               2.8.4-6.fc8            installed       
wxGTK-gl.i386                            2.8.4-6.fc8            installed       
wxPython.i386                            2.8.4.0-2.fc8          installed    

please let me know if you want me to do anything else....

I think that pulse audio is only responsible for audio but my VLC does not even start.....& audio is fine with Real player & other media related softwares...

 

Very bizarre, personally i've neverh ad any problems with VLC Player