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VLC not displaying picture:

  1. Sometimes during a power outage the power is restored and the PPS camera comes up before the switch.  The PPS camera tries to setup a multicast, but fails
    1. restart PPS camera to restore VLC image
  2. One time someone tried to make changes to VLC and created a "lock" file
    1. This will prevent the image from displaying
      1. /home/physics/.config/vlc

      [root@mccfs7 vlc]# ls -ltrh
      total 334K
      -r-------- 1 physics lcls 82K Oct 2 2019 vlcrc
      -rw------- 1 root root 82K Nov 14 2019 vlcrc-old
      -r-------- 1 root root 82K Nov 14 2019 vlcrc-Nov-2019
      -rw-rw-r-- 1 physics lcls 3.6K Sep 20 15:50 vlc-qt-interface.conf
      -rw-rw-r-- 1 physics lcls 16 Sep 20 16:02 vlc-qt-interface.conf.lock
      -r-------- 1 physics lcls 82K Sep 21 13:07 vlcrc-Sep-2023

      Removing the vlc-qt-interface.conf.lock fixed the issue

 




 

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Created by: Ken Brobeck   Sep 21, 2023

Modified: September 21, 2023