VLC not opening in 11.4 KDE

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Cant get VLC to open in 11.4 KDE but opens fine and plays videos in 11.4 Gnome. Anyone get any ideas why it wont open in the KDE version

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try starting it from the terminal with: vlc

post any output from the terminal

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username@dhcppc7:~> vlc
VLC media player 1.1.7 The Luggage (revision exported)
Blocked: call to unsetenv(“DBUS_ACTIVATION_ADDRESS”)
Blocked: call to unsetenv(“DBUS_ACTIVATION_BUS_TYPE”)
Blocked: call to setlocale(6, “”)
Blocked: call to dlopen("/usr/lib/kde4/plugins/gui_platform/libkde.so", 1)
Blocked: call to setlocale(6, “”)
Blocked: call to putenv(“LANGUAGE=”)
KGlobal::locale::Warning your global KLocale is being recreated with a valid main component instead of a fake component, this usually means you tried to call i18n related functions before your main component was created. You should not do that since it most likely will not work

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There is a bug in kde
AFAIK it has not been fixed.
Things to try: If you use Oxygen theme in kde try changing it

To open a file in vlc, do it from file manager, right click open with vlc

does that help?

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I have the exact same problem, and yes right clicking from Konqueror will launch vlc normally.

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Since I only ever open files that way with vlc, probably why I never noticed it.
Thanks for the confirm @ionmich

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Thank you very much!
I search a topic in 4rum VLC.it say “Followed the link and found, that the bug has been fixed already. Updated KDE from 4.6.0 to 4.6.1 and the problem has gone.”

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I update VLC bate2 to fix it! then VLC is good, now

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I have the same problem. Is there any way to avoid this problem without updating to a beta version of VLC?