[xubuntu-users] Video play back issues

Ralf ranfyy ranfyy at gmail.com
Sun Jun 9 16:34:38 UTC 2013


2013/6/9 Tim <tim at xendistar.co.uk>

> Morning all
>
> I am running Xubuntu 13.04 (upgrade from 12.10 when 13.04 first came out)
> and I am having an issue watching videos.
>
> If I launch Parole  and try to play either an mp4 or a wmv format video
> Parole will just crash.
>
> I installed VLC and if I try to play either of the above two formats I
> will get the normal sound track but the video player remains black.
>
> The mp4 video was taken on my android tablet and I could watch the video
> ok with VLC on the tablet, so I am guessing that this is some kind of codec
> issue but I have no idea what or how to check
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Tim
>

run vlc and/or parole from a terminal. They usually print error messages
there.
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