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Linux Mint 19.1 refuses to install VLC. After Software Manager found the update for VLC (it was not listed at first) it "runs" easily but refuses to install VLC.

SOS, unfortunately. Worse, I see a message from Bla bla that says "VLC in Mint 19.1 works flawlessly."
 
Daniel~ said:
My SSD's came with the adapter...I thought they all did.. Try asking for just that...

"the adapter to put a 2.5" SSD into the rack that's pre-built for 3.5 inch spindle drives"
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Thank you Dan. What's the Data mini-ribbon connector called? Please. I don't have an extra.
 

Don't know if this will help. Thank you a million times for trying to!


george@george-System-Product-Name:~$ sudo apt-get update
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george@george-System-Product-Name:~$ sudo apt-cache search VLC
browser-plugin-vlc - multimedia plugin for web browsers based on VLC
cubemap - scalable video reflector, designed to be used with VLC
dvblast - Simple and powerful dvb-streaming application
forensics-extra-gui - Forensics Environment - extra GUI components (metapackage)
fp-units-multimedia - Free Pascal - multimedia units dependency package
fp-units-multimedia-3.0.4 - Free Pascal - multimedia units
freeplayer - wrapper around vlc for French ADSL FreeBox
freetuxtv - Internet television and radio player
getstream - DVB streaming application
hdhomerun-config - Configuration utility for Silicon Dust HD HomeRun
hdhomerun-config-gui - GUI Configuration utility for Silicon Dust HD HomeRun
kaffeine - versatile media player for KDE
laditools - Linux Audio Desktop Integration Tools
libbluray-bdj - Blu-ray Disc Java support library (BD-J library)
libbluray-bin - Blu-ray disc playback support library (tools)
libbluray-dev - Blu-ray disc playback support library (development files)
libbluray-doc - Blu-ray disc playback support library (documentation)
libbluray2 - Blu-ray disc playback support library (shared library)
libhdhomerun-dev - Development library for Silicon Dust HD HomeRun
libhdhomerun4 - Library for Silicon Dust HD HomeRun
libvcdinfo-dev - library to extract information from VideoCD (development files)
libvcdinfo0 - library to extract information from VideoCD
libvlc-bin - tools for VLC's base library
libvlc-dev - development files for libvlc
libvlc5 - multimedia player and streamer library
libvlccore-dev - development files for libvlccore
libvlccore9 - base library for VLC and its modules
mimms - mms (e.g. mms://) stream downloader
mpris-remote - command-line interface for mpris compatible media players
phonon-backend-vlc - Phonon VLC backend
phonon4qt5-backend-vlc - Phonon4Qt5 VLC backend
pidgin-mpris - sets your available message to your currently playing track
python3-pafy - Download videos and retrieve metadata from YouTube
python3-streamlink - Python module for extracting video streams from various websites
python3-streamlink-doc - CLI for extracting video streams from various websites (documentation)
smtube - YouTube videos browser
streamlink - CLI for extracting video streams from various websites to a video player
vlc - multimedia player and streamer
vlc-bin - binaries from VLC
vlc-data - common data for VLC
vlc-l10n - translations for VLC
vlc-plugin-access-extra - multimedia player and streamer (extra access plugins)
vlc-plugin-base - multimedia player and streamer (base plugins)
vlc-plugin-fluidsynth - FluidSynth plugin for VLC
vlc-plugin-jack - JACK audio plugins for VLC
vlc-plugin-notify - LibNotify plugin for VLC
vlc-plugin-qt - multimedia player and streamer (Qt plugin)
vlc-plugin-samba - Samba plugin for VLC
vlc-plugin-skins2 - multimedia player and streamer (Skins2 plugin)
vlc-plugin-svg - SVG plugin for VLC
vlc-plugin-video-output - multimedia player and streamer (video output plugins)
vlc-plugin-video-splitter - multimedia player and streamer (video splitter plugins)
vlc-plugin-visualization - multimedia player and streamer (visualization plugins)
vlc-plugin-vlsub - VLC extension to download subtitles from opensubtitles.org
vlc-plugin-zvbi - transitional dummy package
winetricks - package manager for Wine to install software easily
x264 - video encoder for the H.264/MPEG-4 AVC standard
libdvd-pkg - DVD-Video playing library - installer
george@george-System-Product-Name:~$ vlc
VLC media player 3.0.4 Vetinari (revision 3.0.4-0-gf615db6332)
[0000563fea035570] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface.

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Break. At about this point a full VLC window was launched. The too familiar orange traffic cone was presented. I loaded a DVD. VLC wan't presented as a choice in the drop down window. Chose "Media Player." No dice. SOS.
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qt5ct: using qt5ct plugin
qt5ct: D-Bus global menu: no
qt5ct: D-Bus system tray: no
[0000563fea0394e0] main playlist: playlist is empty
QObject::~QObject: Timers cannot be stopped from another thread
george@george-System-Product-Name:~$ cvlc
VLC media player 3.0.4 Vetinari (revision 3.0.4-0-gf615db6332)
[0000559b3f9ddbe0] dummy interface: using the dummy interface module...
[0000559b3f9094e0] main playlist: playlist is empty
 
OK, we're closer. VLC is actually installed, just, for whatever reason, not working correctly. Can I see which vlc packages you have installed already? Run

dpkg -l | grep -i vlc

...and post up the output.
 
Kaitain said:
OK, we're closer. VLC is actually installed, just, for whatever reason, not working correctly. Can I see which vlc packages you have installed already? Run

dpkg -l | grep -i vlc

...and post up the output.
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Thank you!

george@george-System-Product-Name:~$ dpkg -l | grep i vlc
grep: vlc: No such file or directory
george@george-System-Product-Name:~$

This reminds me of the old Elvis song "Return to Sender," product unknown.
 
cloasters said:
Thank you!

george@george-System-Product-Name:~$ dpkg -l | grep i vlc
grep: vlc: No such file or directory
george@george-System-Product-Name:~$

This reminds me of the old Elvis song "Return to Sender," product unknown.
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You missed a "-"

dpkg -l | grep -i vlc
 
Sorry! By the way, thanks a million for your help with this problem!

george@george-System-Product-Name:~$ dpkg -l | grep -i vlc
ii libvlc-bin:amd64 3.0.4-1ubuntu0.2 amd64 tools for VLC's base library
ii libvlc5:amd64 3.0.4-1ubuntu0.2 amd64 multimedia player and streamer library
ii libvlccore9:amd64 3.0.4-1ubuntu0.2 amd64 base library for VLC and its modules
ii vlc-bin 3.0.4-1ubuntu0.2 amd64 binaries from VLC
ii vlc-data 3.0.4-1ubuntu0.2 all common data for VLC
ii vlc-plugin-base:amd64 3.0.4-1ubuntu0.2 amd64 multimedia player and streamer (base plugins)
ii vlc-plugin-qt:amd64 3.0.4-1ubuntu0.2 amd64 multimedia player and streamer (Qt plugin)
ii vlc-plugin-video-output:amd64 3.0.4-1ubuntu0.2 amd64 multimedia player and streamer (video output plugins)
george@george-System-Product-Name:~$
 
OK, so VLC itself seems to be complete. Now I vaguely recall from the release notes that since Mint 18, it no longer installs certain libraries and codecs by default. We can just instruct the system to install them - if they're already installed, it'll just skip the packages safely.

sudo apt-get install mint-meta-codecs libdvdcss2
 
Kaitain said:
OK, so VLC itself seems to be complete. Now I vaguely recall from the release notes that since Mint 18, it no longer installs certain libraries and codecs by default. We can just instruct the system to install them - if they're already installed, it'll just skip the packages safely.

sudo apt-get install mint-meta-codecs libdvdcss2
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Holy fudge mo moto, Batman, that's a long list! Muchas gracias good sir!

george@george-System-Product-Name:~$ sudo apt-get install mint-meta-codecs libdvdcss2
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Looks like something should have been changed after all. Thank you Kaitain!
 
It works!!

THANK YOU KAITAIN! May manifold blessings be upon your house for seven generations and seven more! Seriously, you made my month!

Thank you for going to all that trouble to help a Member out!
 
Kaitain said:
Are you happy at this point, or do you need to look at nVidia drivers for gaming as well?
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Thank you greatest of Linux understanders! No, I'm supremely happy being able to play DVD's!! Summer is almost here in the Great White North (well, we are very close to Canada) which means watching the big tv becomes problematic thanks to Mr Sun (all hail!) sometimes. The PC faces east and is pretty far from the big window (faces south) that the tv is too near.
 
Great stuff! Using a different screen and still seeing some natural light is far superior to just closing the curtains - on that path lies madness

If I have any spare brainpower, I'll have a think about D~'s 4K problem. I think it's related to changes in the nvidia drivers between 340 and 370 regarding its handling of screen EDIDs.
 
So like. is anyone working on getting NVIDIA drivers back on track?
You know where they can properly install a wide choice of working drivers.

In as much as they all work for me now, but limit my irresolution to 1920x1080
It can't be that hard to mend.??

And oh!
Thank you K! ":O}
 
Daniel~ said:
So like. is anyone working on getting NVIDIA drivers back on track?
You know where they can properly install a wide choice of working drivers.

In as much as they all work for me now, but limit my irresolution to 1920x1080
It can't be that hard to mend.??

And oh!
Thank you K! ":O}
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"We sell no wine before its time" said Orson Wells in advertisements for a California winery years ago. Seems that all tv's for sale nowadays are indeed 4K capable. But does this mean that PC's and monitors have to be 4K capable now too?

Dan, are you using your giant tv for a monitor nowadays?
 
Kaitain said:
Great stuff! Using a different screen and still seeing some natural light is far superior to just closing the curtains - on that path lies madness

If I have any spare brainpower, I'll have a think about D~'s 4K problem. I think it's related to changes in the nvidia drivers between 340 and 370 regarding its handling of screen EDIDs.
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Thank you very, very much for your detailed and exhaustive help in making my PC DVD-able again Kaitain!
 
Alas after down sizing to our trailer..There wasn't a single wall it would fit. So We gave it to one who owns a bigger trailer. While my 60 inch plasma was a real gem at 1080 my new 46 inch gives me a computer monitor that displays 4096x 2160.

So yeah, they make great monitors. ":O}
 
Daniel~ said:
So like. is anyone working on getting NVIDIA drivers back on track?
You know where they can properly install a wide choice of working drivers.
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To some extent, they do. nVidia only provides a single kernel module for all its generations of graphics card. In trying to support older cards, it will eventually get too big, too unwieldy, too hard to maintain and thus too bug prone to support all older generations of card. So, nVidia's decision to cut off support for older cards at particular driver levels is practical, and beneficial for owners of newer cards.

At some point, the abilities of your card's GPU are exhausted - there are no new features to exploit, no new opengl instructions to implement and thus no benefit to newer drivers. As you've discovered, changes needed by newer cards may introduce regressions.

Anyway:

sudo inxi -Fx

... and paste the output. Also, let me know the exact make and model number of your TV/monitor.
 
Don't get me wrong, old the 340's maybe but they do work rather well.
So do ALL the drivers offer by Mint "Driver manger"
The 340's are flawed only in that you can not uninstall them, the system freezes and I only know how to do a restore from back up, which works very well.":O}

All other drivers from Nvidia work, install and and uninstall properly. But they are all flawed in that that give me a 1920X 1080 max resolution.

daniel@daniel-System-Product-Name:~$ sudo inxi -Fx
[sudo] password for daniel:
System: Host: daniel-System-Product-Name Kernel: 4.15.0-54-generic x86_64 bits: 64
compiler: gcc v: 7.4.0 Desktop: Cinnamon 4.0.10 Distro: Linux Mint 19.1 Tessa
base: Ubuntu 18.04 bionic
Machine: Type: Desktop Mobo: ASUSTeK model: SABERTOOTH Z77 v: Rev 1.xx serial: 120700388000702
BIOS: American Megatrends v: 2104 date: 08/13/2013
CPU: Topology: Quad Core model: Intel Core i7-2600K bits: 64 type: MT MCP
arch: Sandy Bridge rev: 7 L2 cache: 8192 KiB
flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 54574
Speed: 1928 MHz min/max: 1600/4800 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1928 2: 3919 3: 2084
4: 3984 5: 2464 6: 2404 7: 1809 8: 2411
Graphics: Device-1: NVIDIA GK104 [GeForce GTX 670] vendor: eVga.com. driver: nvidia v: 340.107
bus ID: 01:00.0
Display: server: X.Org 1.19.6 driver: nvidia resolution: 4096x2160~30Hz
OpenGL: renderer: GeForce GTX 670/PCIe/SSE2 v: 4.4.0 NVIDIA 340.107
direct render: Yes
Audio: Device-1: NVIDIA GK104 HDMI Audio vendor: eVga.com. driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
bus ID: 01:00.1
Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.15.0-54-generic
Network: Device-1: Intel 82579V Gigabit Network vendor: ASUSTeK P8P67 Deluxe driver: e1000e
v: 3.2.6-k port: f040 bus ID: 00:19.0
IF: eno1 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: 30:85:a9:95:94:e6
Drives: Local Storage: total: 788.08 GiB used: 433.92 GiB (55.1%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: OCZ model: VERTEX4 size: 238.47 GiB
ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Corsair model: Force GT size: 83.85 GiB temp: 21 C
ID-3: /dev/sdc vendor: Samsung model: SSD 850 EVO 500GB size: 465.76 GiB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 218.03 GiB used: 93.02 GiB (42.7%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/dm-0
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 29.8 C mobo: 27.8 C gpu: nvidia temp: 40 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 0
Info: Processes: 247 Uptime: 1d 22h 59m Memory: 15.61 GiB used: 6.30 GiB (40.4%)
Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 7.4.0 Shell: bash v: 4.4.20 inxi: 3.0.27
daniel@daniel-System-Product-Name:~$

I have a HiSence
H6D series smart TV
46 inch
a little over a yer old, bought at Walmart


This shows my current Nvidia display
 

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