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Error starting VLC

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tmrensing

Error starting VLC

#1 Post by tmrensing »

Hi,

I'm new to debian and use sarge.
Every time I want to start vlc it comes to an error.
The very first error starting vlc, e.g. directly afert booting the system is the following:

VLC media player 0.8.2-svn Janus

Gtk-ERROR **: file gtksignal.c: line 262 (gtk_signal_init): assertion failed: (z ero == NULL)
aborting...
Abgebrochen

The second and all errors from now on are these:

GLib-WARNING **: g_main_iterate(): main loop already active in another thread

What could be the reason for this behaviour?

Any help is welcome, thanks

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Ryujin
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#2 Post by Ryujin »

I have seen a lot of problems with the VLC in sarge, I would recomend reinstalling it from the developer's repository:
deb http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/debian sarge main
deb-src http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/debian sarge main
this repo also maintains the dvd codecs libdvdcss
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