VLC not lunching

[Iromrs]

I have installed vlc last night, from the repository. everything went fine but upon lunching it jumps around for a bit and just vanished with out a trace..and this seem to be a very common prob lem that i've experienced with server suse 10.2 installations..

how can i go about in solving this issue?
what causes such symptoms in general?

thanks

[dth1]

open a terminal window and type

vlc

then press enter and see what error message comes up

[falcifer]

I have installed vlc last night, from the repository. everything went fine but upon lunching it jumps around for a bit and just vanished with out a trace..and this seem to be a very common prob lem that i've experienced with server suse 10.2 installations..

how can i go about in solving this issue?
what causes such symptoms in general?

thanks

One thing you can do is to launch the program from the console, which should report some messages and give you some idea of what's wrong.

Open a console window and type "vlc" and post any error messages you get here. I don't know that I'll be able to help, but it's a step closer to finding out what's wrong.

The times that it's happened to me, it's usually caused by missing libraries, or other files.
Installing via YaST should either resolve the dependencies automatically, or at least let you know of any problems. If this didn't happen in your case, then you could try a fresh install after removing it with YaST. There is a huge list of "requires" for VLC Player, as can be seen here.

[Iromrs]

here is the error msg

vlc: error while loading shared libraries: libdc1394_control.so.12: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

i'm currently trying to get libdc1394,, i'm not sure if i'm on the right track..

thanks

[falcifer]

here is the error msg

vlc: error while loading shared libraries: libdc1394_control.so.12: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

i'm currently trying to get libdc1394,, i'm not sure if i'm on the right track..

thanks

If you're using YaST, it would be worth setting up some more repositories if you haven't already.
According to my installation, libdc1394 is available from the DVD (or extra CDs if you're using CDs), which means you should be able to install through YaST. It provides the exact file that you need.