linuxgeek: [LINUX_Newbies] Re: VLC in Mint 17

Friday, February 20, 2015

[LINUX_Newbies] Re: VLC in Mint 17

Duly noted. At the risk of being repetitive, should you do a google search,you will find page after page of Youtube problems as well as VLC. Try it.

I ask for no apologies. I ask for solutions. Why do Youtube and VLC videos display with sound and video out of sync,and why work in one of two

identical AsRocks I`ve tested,and one dell with Dual boot. Other computers I tested thoroughly, constantly failed to display video and You tube

properly as I systematically tried various Ubuntu, Zoren,and Mint flavours. There are no penalties for saying " I don`t know why". I herby so proclaim.

Should that be your reply also,then I look elsewhere. There are some that say Youtube and VLC work as advertized. I do not doubt them. Three

of my computers do. For the others computers I have, IF there is a WHY that VLC and Youtube do not work,then I want to know WHY and WHAT to do

to correct.There has to be a better way than cut and paste. Why do want to find solutions? WHY NOT? I applaud your personal pride in how open source

works.Far be it from me to sully your pride. However, what part of your post actually addresses solutions for problems that do exist. Did I read right past them,

with none of that reactive response called frustration? I don`t know the answer. I`ve already said so. I`m searching for those that do know,and I will humbly

defer to them. Do they exist? I think so.

Cheers

Respectfully

Gene Henley

Newbie looking for solutions.

On Feb 20, 2015, at 7:53 AM, Linux Canuck linuxcanuck@yahoo.ca [LINUX_Newbies] wrote:

GNOME has its own video player as does KDE. It is made specifically to work with that desktop and with Pulse Audio and the video codecs. VLC in contrast does its own thing and ignores the desktop on which it is installed. You will find VLC users in pockets rather than clumped into Ubuntu or Mint etc. So finding users with precisely your problem is harder. That will take time which is why I suggested using something else until you track things down. I sense some frustration on your part. I am not denying the problem exists, just that I cannot duplicate it.

The second part of this is that Mint or Ubuntu cannot resolve the issue because VLC or VideoLan is an independent project from France that is made to work independent of the host desktop. Ubuntu or Mint make it available but it is not bundled with the OS for that reason. In making it available it is tested so see that it installs. Bugs and exceptions still happen but it is up to the user and VideoLan to fix them.

I am not trying to apologise for the way open source works. I am rather proud of it. Users have choice. One of those is to install alternatives. You have chosen to do that with installing VLC. Another choice is to go with the default or to install something different. There are no guarantees that everything will work for everybody in any OS. As a long time computer user I know only too well that different hardware renders different results with different OSes and I have been in your situation of trying to explain a problem to someone who cannot duplicate it on their equipment. It is frustrating and like you I stay with it till I can fix it. Sometimes I can't, but it is satisfying when I can. It is also good to know that I can opt for a different application at no cost should things not work out.

Roy