From 4b76db7ad7c2b3398e90306ea86654dabb56c040 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andreas Preikschat <googol@lavabit.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2013 12:54:11 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] convert bytes to str

---
 openlp/core/ui/media/vlcplayer.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/openlp/core/ui/media/vlcplayer.py b/openlp/core/ui/media/vlcplayer.py
index 28966fc23..8c943dc82 100644
--- a/openlp/core/ui/media/vlcplayer.py
+++ b/openlp/core/ui/media/vlcplayer.py
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ except OSError, e:
 
 if VLC_AVAILABLE:
     try:
-        VERSION = vlc.libvlc_get_version()
+        VERSION = vlc.libvlc_get_version().decode('UTF-8')
     except:
         VERSION = u'0.0.0'
     # LooseVersion does not work when a string contains letter and digits (e. g. 2.0.5 Twoflower).