What kind of hardware are you working with? Perhaps these VLC packages are by default configured to use hardware encoding and more work is needed to get it working (whether it be with VLC or a driver / library issue with your video card). On another note, LMDE has been great. I haven't yet fully installed it (been using the live iso), but I can attest that rolling releases have their perks (been using Arch Linux for about 10 years) for keeping things up to date and more streamlined. However, my personal preference would be to figure out what the problem is first before hopping distros- VLC is still VLC, pre-configured and sometimes patched differently depending on the distro being used. Feel free to post more insight on the hardware on TCLUG, others might have had the same issue- I'd also check the community forum for Mint, they are very helpful with problems and I have solved a few quickly by searching without having to make a new thread. Good luck, Jay On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 4:18 PM, gregrwm <tclug1 at whitleymott.net> wrote: > > eek. natty's eol. and the last natty firefox update was sick. so, i > was unwittingly motivated, time to jump to quantal. after the jump, > quantal vlc was hosed. well shucks, i figured, perhaps quantal is too > bleeding edge. so i tried maya. you know, since i'm installing > *again*, might as well see what the mint buzz is all about. mint 13 > xfce vlc worked great on the liveCD, and worked great after installing > to disc. but after apt-get upgrade, maya vlc has the same frozen > display that quantal vlc had. sound works great if you pass a stream > on the vlc commandline, but the vlc display is frozen. other apps, eg > firefox, are fine. heck. could this force my hand to try LMDE? is > ubuntu losing whatever quality process it may have had previously? or > is distrohopping just being silly, perhaps it's just vlc's problem, > perhaps i shouldn't blame ubuntu. i guess i'm uninterested in testing > at this stage, i just want stuff that works, and isn't eol. is that > unfair? thoughts? > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list