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geezer

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Registered: 2023-05-26

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VLC Player problem

A video .mp4 file on a usb stick or external drive cannot be opened or played with VLC Player. I would have to copy or cut and paste to local hard drive to play the file. I dont think its a permission problem as I can play it on a desktop with windows 11 or MX Linux. Any ideas?

q4osteam

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Registered: 2015-12-06

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Re: VLC Player problem

What desktop environment do you use ? Plasma, Trinity, other ?

geezer

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Registered: 2023-05-26

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Re: VLC Player problem

Trinity

q4osteam

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Re: VLC Player problem

It seems, you have encountered known Trinity bug https://www.q4os.org/forum/viewtopic.php?id=3826 . It should have been fixed in the new Trinity 14.1.x version, what will be available in the upcoming Q4OS 5 Aquarius edition.
See also:
https://www.q4os.org/forum/viewtopic.php?id=4461
https://www.q4os.org/forum/viewtopic.php?id=3826

just1acc

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Registered: 2023-02-23

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Re: VLC Player problem

- Go to "/usr/share/applications/"
- Locate the .desktop file of the program that doesn't open the file you are trying to open (e.g. VLC would be "vlc.desktop")
- Right-click and select "Edit as system administrator"
- Search for the "Exec=" entry
- Replace the "%U" entry on the same line by "%F"
- Save and test if it now works.

geezer

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Registered: 2023-05-26

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Re: VLC Player problem

Thanks, working now