VLC Flatpak won’t play videos from network shares

Suddenly the Flatpak version of VLC on Ubuntu stopped playing video files directly from a network fileshare (SMB/windows share) mounted via Nautilus. The error is about VLC not being able to play "smb://" files. That's annoying because Nautilus is supposed to hide the fact that this is a network share and create then illusion of … Continue reading VLC Flatpak won’t play videos from network shares →

VLC / Ubuntu out of sync sound

In ubuntu 12.04 VLC runs out of sync when pausing a video. First, when pausing the video, sound will continue playing for a couple of seconds. Then when resuming the video, it will lag behind but eventually resync after several seconds. Somehow I lived with this bug for a while, unnecessarily as it seems as … Continue reading VLC / Ubuntu out of sync sound →