On 2017-07-13 at 18:00:57 Ed Greshko wrote:
On 07/13/17 17:56, John Pilkington wrote:
> On 13/07/17 09:02, Erik P. Olsen wrote:
>> On 2017-07-13 at 14:47:25 Ed Greshko wrote:
>>
>>> On 07/13/17 14:42, Erik P. Olsen wrote:
>>>> On 2017-07-13 at 03:44:06 Ed Greshko wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 07/13/17 03:22, Richard Shaw wrote:
>>>>>> VLC has been broken for me for months but it appears to be an
>>>>>> issue with the nvidia binary drivers.
>>>>>>
>>>>> FWIW, I'd been running vlc on F25 and now F26 with no issues.
>>>>> And I use nVidia drivers as well.
>>>>>
>>>>> Since vlc is packaged by the fine folks at RPMfusion you may
>>>>> want to raise this issue with them to investigate.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Removed ~/.config/vlc/vlcrc and vlc works again.
>>>>
>>> You didn't happen to save the old config file? Would have been
>>> nice to find out what parameter was causing the problem in your
>>> case.
>>>
>>>
>> Yes, I saved it. I'll take a look at it later and let the list
>> know.
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>> Erik P. Olsen
>
> I just looked: I have vlcrc, vlcrc.txt and vlcrc1.txt, the two
> latest both from June and partly related to my recent installation
> of a new nVidia card.
>
> Each file is > 85 Kb of almost entirely commented out options. I
> looked at a diff, and then tried "cat vlvrc | grep -v \#", but that
> still gives a fairly dilute output dominated by empty lines. I'm
> no grep expert.
>
> But I do see 'audio-visual=glspectrum' - and it's on-screen too.
FWIW, I got rid of all the blank lines first with
sed -i '/^$/d' vlcrc
Only difference was that the line:
#play-and-exit=0
was changed to:
play-and-exit=1
in the vlcrc I removed.
--
Regards,
Erik P. Olsen