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Intrepid 8.10 installed and now no video

Asked by Rick Moquin

With fiesty I was using VLC to play DVDs, watch videos etc...

Since unstalling Intrepid 8.10 when I select to paly anything, the program window disappears. e.g play dvd and the program vanishes from my desktop (read screen).

I have installed all the codecs etc... that I can find. No player works, Real Player, MPlayer, VLC, Movie Player (totem) etc...

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amergermandude (truckerman-peter) said : 		#1

In case you have not tried this yet go to applications-add remove software-browsetype in Kubuntu and hit enter. Kubuntu
restricted extras should come up install this package and it should give you video and audio as well as flash player. I
hope this helps good luck.

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Rick Moquin (rmoquin) said : 		#2

I am running the GNOME desktop. restrited extras has been added via terminal (or konsole for kubuntu users)

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Koen (koen-beek) said : 		#3

can you start up vlc from a terminal (konsole) and check whether any error messages are output when the window disappears

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Rick Moquin (rmoquin) said : 		#4

http://www.ubuntugeek.com/fix-for-video-playback-problem-in-compiz-fusion.html

got it working from this link