Comments on: Fix for VLC doesn’t play video after ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic) Upgrade

By: Cordeiro

Cordeiro — Fri, 28 May 2010 21:13:51 +0000

The 5th solution worked very well, thanks a lot…
Something I’d really recomend:
$ sudo apt-get remove smplayer
$ sudo apt-get remove mplayer
$ sudo apt-get remove libx264-67 --purge
$ sudo apt-get install libx264-67
$ sudo apt-get install smplayer
$ sudo apt-get install mplayer
$ sudo apt-get install vlc

By: Guille

Guille — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 11:00:24 +0000

Thanks!!!, finaly the Solution 3 worked for me. I did a fresh install, but couldn’t play DVD, until I followed your suggestions.

By: SilvioZG

SilvioZG — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 10:17:21 +0000

The procedure and example #5 has worked fine for me!
THNX!!!

$ sudo apt-get remove smplayer
$ sudo apt-get remove mplayer
$ sudo apt-get remove libx264-67 --purge
$ sudo apt-get install libx264-67
$ sudo apt-get install smplayer
$ sudo apt-get install mplayer
$ sudo apt-get install vlc

By: Becky

Becky — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 21:56:13 +0000

Solution #3 worked for me. Thanks!

By: jsaffar

jsaffar — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 01:26:23 +0000

Thanx for all these different solutions,

since I upgraded to karmic I was having trouble playing almost any video, I followed the last method in your post and it’s working like charm ,,,

thanx a million

By: Ronald

Ronald — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:18:08 +0000

I fixed this by changing VLC’s video output module to OpenGL video output. I suspect that the X11 mode was causing the crashes.

By: Kimme Utsi

Kimme Utsi — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:02:06 +0000

What about using an better player, namely SMPlayer?

By: asn

asn — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:50:57 +0000

none of this worked for me. Can’t play some dvds on any of the afore mentioned programs.

By: Stephan Beal

Stephan Beal — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:34:48 +0000

FWIW: i upgraded two machines from Ubuntu 9.04 to 9.10, and VNC worked as before on both machines after the upgrade (some UI differences, but they both played videos as expected).

By: xbtorrent

xbtorrent — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:56:23 +0000

thank you very many for that one! even before upgrading to karmic my vlc player stopped working. wildly (un-)installing probably all of the above mentioned packages gave me no luck. deactivating the medibuntu repository and purging the apt cache did the job.
the only bugger in karmic remains the slowish boot after upgrading from jaunty (from 25s to 1’30m determined with bootchart).

By: slumbergod

slumbergod — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:56:51 +0000

My vlc worked fine after moving to karmic. I recently upgraded to the new 1.0.3 and that is working perfectly too.

By: brian

brian — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:22:18 +0000

I didn’t have any problems with VLC after my upgrade to 9.10. I’ve been using VLC for both listening to audio books and watching .mpg and DVD’s
and its been working fine?

By: Bill

Bill — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:53:47 +0000

What not go to Ubuntu software center and search for “ubuntu-restricted-extras” and install. This should add flash and some common drivers easily without command line.

By: foomatiker

foomatiker — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:26:12 +0000

> The above might remove ubuntu-desktop

I’m missing the hint this will break the whole system (Oo)!