Article 6PK80 Running VLC from HDMI console

Running VLC from HDMI console

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asarangan
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I've been trying to get VLC to run on my Raspberry pi 3B, which I freshly installed with aarch64-current, but when I invoke it from the command line, it shows the video in ugly ascii art form. I compiled the binary from source (version 3.0.21) using the build script from slackbuilds.org, with x264 and x265 libraries. Compilation and installation went fine.

I am not sure if the following is related to this issue or not, but I am also unable to start the xfce manager. I am using runlevel 4. The boot process says "starting X11", but I see nothing other than the text console prompt.

Any ideas would be appreciated.
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