vlc wont start

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vlc wont start

Postby patrickdarcy » May 18th, '12, 06:52

inmageia 1 my vlc wont start


[patrick@localhost ~]$ vlc
VLC media player 1.1.12 The Luggage (revision exported)
[0x8faa914] main libvlc error: No modules were found, refusing to start. Check that you properly gave a module path with --plugin-path.
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Re: vlc wont start

Postby doktor5000 » May 18th, '12, 19:43

Please show the output of
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rpm -qa | grep vlc


You can also try to rename/move away ~/.config/vlc/ folder where VLC stores its settings, maybe those are at fault so you can rule that out.
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