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Post by Death Eye on Mar 9, 2013 2:14:35 GMT
I feel like I'm making too many threads in this subforum here, so here's a thread where you ask your fellow forum members inane questions about why your computer isn't working quite right.
And no, this isn't Tech Talk Subforum: The Thread because this is about relatively simple computer troubles, not "Hey, where can I find a good computer for $5?" or "I want every window I open to be octagonal, what do I do?" or "Every window I open is octagonal, what do I do?" You know, resolving relatively minor issues.
Example:
Why does the VLC plugin crash immediately in Opera version 12.14? And not that I really want to, but why can't I report it?
(To clarify, that is actually a question, not just an arbitrary example I pulled from my hat.)
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Post by Metal on Mar 9, 2013 12:53:05 GMT
I feel like I'm making too many threads in this subforum here, so here's a thread where you ask your fellow forum members inane questions about why your computer isn't working quite right. And no, this isn't Tech Talk Subforum: The Thread because this is about relatively simple computer troubles, not "Hey, where can I find a good computer for $5?" or "I want every window I open to be octagonal, what do I do?" or "Every window I open is octagonal, what do I do?" You know, resolving relatively minor issues. Example: Why does the VLC plugin crash immediately in Opera version 12.14? And not that I really want to, but why can't I report it? (To clarify, that is actually a question, not just an arbitrary example I pulled from my hat.)Oh DE you and your reversed person logic. IE post nothing "complex here" postd the most complex thing he can think of. You make my day sir Moving on, try downloading an older version if the older version crashes then vlc needs a patch. If not its a virus bugging up your copy. Not that id suggest virus scanning it because most virus software reports vlc as a viral entitey anyway... |
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Post by Death Eye on Mar 9, 2013 19:00:24 GMT
I feel like I'm making too many threads in this subforum here, so here's a thread where you ask your fellow forum members inane questions about why your computer isn't working quite right. And no, this isn't Tech Talk Subforum: The Thread because this is about relatively simple computer troubles, not "Hey, where can I find a good computer for $5?" or "I want every window I open to be octagonal, what do I do?" or "Every window I open is octagonal, what do I do?" You know, resolving relatively minor issues. Example: Why does the VLC plugin crash immediately in Opera version 12.14? And not that I really want to, but why can't I report it? (To clarify, that is actually a question, not just an arbitrary example I pulled from my hat.)Oh DE you and your reversed person logic. IE post nothing "complex here" postd the most complex thing he can think of. You make my day sir It's not that complex. It's not like everything is being identified as a read-only filesystem or something. I'm just having difficulty with a plugin. (But yes, I did have that problem before.) Isn't getting an older version kind of evading the problem rather than solving it? I kind of want to solve this without getting a completely different version just to use the VLC plugin. (It probably doesn't help that I'm not entirely sure how to get an older version of anything in Ubuntu, what with its package system automatically finding every update for just about everything on your computer. Which pretty much guarantees it's not a virus that's causing the problem, at least, though it does also make getting older versions a bit more complicated, probably.) Could it be that Opera just auto-crashes VLC now to avoid the (browser) crashing issues it apparently has with VLC? It'd certainly explain why I can't report it. |
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Post by Metal on Mar 9, 2013 20:54:08 GMT
Problem solved! Your using linux/unix and opera. Id get chrome and you should be fine
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Post by Death Eye on Mar 9, 2013 22:11:16 GMT
Problem solved! Your using linux/unix and opera. Id get chrome and you should be fine Chrome isn't Opera, though. If I wanted to use an inferior browser I'd figure out how to install Netscape.  Seriously, though, there has to be some way for the actual plugin to actually work in Opera, right? (I mean, it apparently has no video controls and takes 5 minutes to start playing videos anyway when it actually works correctly, so unless that's configurable it's actually kind of worse than the usable-but-not-exactly-preferable thing I already have, but even if that's the case this doesn't seem like it should even be an issue. Every other Firefox plugin works fine, why not VLC?) |
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Post by Indigo on Mar 9, 2013 22:45:45 GMT
Apparently, the VLC plugin is the same for all browsers... They're all based on the Firefox plugin. Have you tried any of the nightly builds? nightlies.videolan.org/Man... I do really want octagonal windows now. Well, hexagonal... |
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Post by Metal on Mar 9, 2013 22:46:38 GMT
Opera<google chrome.
Probably the fact that its vlc and opera cant run it
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Post by Death Eye on Mar 9, 2013 23:07:08 GMT
Apparently, the VLC plugin is the same for all browsers... They're all based on the Firefox plugin. Have you tried any of the nightly builds? nightlies.videolan.org/As far as I can see those are the player itself, not the plugin. Also I'm kind of still running Ubuntu 11.10, so I sort of can't install any of the stuff in the relevant PPA.  With a bit of configuration, Opera allows you to use any site's search function from the address bar, go to any site with Ctrl+[number], log in to any site with Ctrl+Enter, and, if I'm not mistaken, configure a keyboard shortcut for anything. Unless I was doing the whole Chrome thing wrong the whole time, Chrome has nothing on that. Also Chrome enjoys auto-updating itself and killing my entire computer in Windows XP and I don't like that.I have read that Opera crashes when it tries to run VLC. I have not read that VLC crashes when Opera tries to run it. If it were just Opera not being able to handle it, wouldn't the whole browser crash instead of just the plugin? Or is my understanding of how plugins work just fundamentally flawed?  |
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Post by Indigo on Mar 10, 2013 0:01:50 GMT
Well... I'm not entirely sure how VLC and Ubuntu and stuff works. But I did find this: forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=99037It's a bit dated, though, but it might be that they've been lazy for a whole year and still haven't fixed it. |
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Post by Death Eye on Mar 10, 2013 0:23:55 GMT
Well... I'm not entirely sure how VLC and Ubuntu and stuff works. But I did find this: forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=99037It's a bit dated, though, but it might be that they've been lazy for a whole year and still haven't fixed it. That's not it; VLC itself plays YouTube videos fine, it's just the plugin that won't work. |
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Post by Indigo on Mar 10, 2013 0:50:45 GMT
It seems I'm failing to contribute anything here... So I'll just let metalherox keep telling you to change browsers.
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Post by Metal on Mar 10, 2013 0:55:36 GMT
It seems I'm failing to contribute anything here... So I'll just let metalherox keep telling you to change browsers. |
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Post by Death Eye on Apr 28, 2013 23:08:45 GMT
[rant]
Have I complained about how much more of a pile of s*** Windows 7 is than XP yet? Because apparently Microsoft saw fit to build their OS for computer-illiterate morons. Windows XP had a menu for working with file types in the Folder Options (which makes very little sense, but hey, at least it exists), but I assume somewhere between XP and 7 Microsoft thought "You know, having a clearly visible menu to freely configure what opens what as the user sees fit is too dangerous for our userbase" because they presumably think their userbase is about 3 billion 6-year-olds who randomly click and modify settings they don't understand, so they got rid of that.
I assume the next thought that came to them was something along the lines of "Come to think of it, all these applications can make changes to things, too. Change is scary. We should make it so the changes our users make don't actually take effect unless they click to run as administrator. You know, 'cause our userbase will never fiddle around with settings they don't understand after they figure out how to run as administrator." And so now running as administrator is a thing.
Now, I realize Ubuntu has a similar thing in the sudo command, where you have to open a terminal and type "sudo [program/command/thing you want to run]" in order to make changes to critical system files and whatnot. I don't mind that, though, and before you think it, no, it has nothing to do with my inherent bias in matters like this. It's because in Ubuntu you can just do what you do, and if you can't do it without going root you get an error or a warning or some manner of pop-up and then you can just Ctrl-Alt-T and then do the whole sudo rigamarole, whereas in Windows you open the program, make all the changes you want, then find out afterward that oops! You forgot to run as administrator! Too bad! Looks like you'll have to do all that again! Which is already utterly f***ing stupid, but to make matters worse, apparently a program's preferences count as critical system files. So if I want to, say, change some hotkeys in VLC, I have to run as administrator. To change settings. And, as I've come to expect from Windows, there's no clear easy way to change that. So, to get to the point of this post,
[/rant]
How do I make everything in Windows 7 run as administrator by default?
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Post by Indigo on Apr 29, 2013 3:54:08 GMT
I've come across some problems with not being able to change some files, despite being the administrator (and only user). I'm still not sure just what I'm expected to do. Like say, if I want to give permissions to some folder... I can't, because I'm not the administrator? But I've written that off as just those two or three occurrences were bugged folders...
Don't really get what you mean about folder options, but do you mean when it opens folders 'optimized' for certain file types? Like how it'll list music folders with the track number and album and stuff, and picture folders will automatically be listed as thumbnails? If that's what you mean, you can click View > Customize this folder, also reachable by right-clicking empty space and going into Properties.
As for running everything as administrator, if you're the administrator, and not just an account with admin privileges, it should run everything as admin by default. Otherwise, I think really the only way is to mark the programs you want in the Properties > Comparability tab, or right-click the program and Run as administrator. If you're the administrator, something that may or may not help is turning off user account control settings: Control Panel > User Accounts and Family Safety > User Accounts > Change User Account Control settings.
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Post by Death Eye on Apr 29, 2013 5:42:42 GMT
I've come across some problems with not being able to change some files, despite being the administrator (and only user). I'm still not sure just what I'm expected to do. Like say, if I want to give permissions to some folder... I can't, because I'm not the administrator? But I've written that off as just those two or three occurrences were bugged folders... Yet another addition to the list of Microsoft's failures... or it would be if I weren't too lazy to keep such a list.  No, I mean in XP in the window where you unhide extensions for known file types there's also a File Types tab that has a list of every registered file type and lets you change the context menus for them, the default programs, their icons, etc. But they got rid of it because they think their userbase can't handle configurability. So how do I log in as Administrator by default? Also why doesn't Micrsoft understand the concept of Administrator=Administrator? If they're telling me I'm the administrator, you'd think that would mean, you know, that I'm the bloody administrator. |
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