Bug#672972: Wheezy: VLC player can't play videos

[T Elcor]

--- On Mon, 5/14/12, Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi at remlab.net> wrote:

> It looks like:
> - You have forced the XVideo video output in the
> preferences,

Maybe, though I don't remember when or how it was done and am not sure what preferences you refer to.

> - Your system does not support XVideo.
> 
> Not much VLC can do then. Reset the VLC video output to
> default,

How? In Tools|Preferences|Video settings the Output is already set to Default and I unchecked "Accelerated video output" just to be sure. Same result.

Thanks

# aptitude show vlc
Package: vlc                             
State: installed
Automatically installed: no
Version: 2.0.1-4+b1
Priority: optional
Section: video
Maintainer: Debian Multimedia Maintainers <pkg-multimedia-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org>
Architecture: amd64
Uncompressed Size: 3,546 k
Depends: ttf-freefont, vlc-nox (= 2.0.1-4+b1), libaa1 (>= 1.4p5), libavcodec53 (>= 5:0.8-2~) | libavcodec-extra-53
         (>= 5:0.8-2~), libavutil51 (>= 5:0.8-2~), libc6 (>= 2.8), libfreetype6 (>= 2.2.1), libfribidi0 (>=
         0.19.2), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1), libgl1-mesa-glx | libgl1, libice6 (>= 1:1.0.0), libqtcore4 (>=
         4:4.7.0~beta1), libqtgui4 (>= 4:4.7.0~beta1), libsdl-image1.2 (>= 1.2.10), libsdl1.2debian (>= 1.2.11),
         libsm6, libstdc++6 (>= 4.6), libtar0, libva-x11-1 (> 1.0.15~), libva1 (> 1.0.15~), libvlccore5 (>= 2.0.0),
         libx11-6, libxcb-composite0, libxcb-keysyms1 (>= 0.3.8), libxcb-randr0 (>= 1.1), libxcb-render0,
         libxcb-shape0, libxcb-shm0, libxcb-xfixes0, libxcb-xv0 (>= 1.2), libxcb1 (>= 1.6), libxext6, libxinerama1,
         libxpm4, zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.3.3)
Recommends: vlc-plugin-notify (= 2.0.1-4+b1), vlc-plugin-pulse (= 2.0.1-4+b1), xdg-utils
Suggests: videolan-doc
Breaks: vlc-data (< 1.1.5), vlc-nox (< 1.1.5)
Replaces: vlc-data (< 1.1.5), vlc-nox (< 1.1.5)
Provides: mp3-decoder
Description: multimedia player and streamer
 
Homepage: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/