VLC causes me to logout

schmidtbag · 2011-11-19 23:37:08

So I upgraded to xserver 1.11 and catalyst 11.11 yesterday and I noticed now every time I try playing a video in VLC, I'm immediately brought to the login screen. How do I avoid this?

I read somewhere in these forums that having vdpau installed while not having a vdpau compatible card can cause this, but I can't uninstall that without uninstalling other programs I want and I'm pretty sure I've had it installed for a while.

Weegee · 2011-11-19 23:56:14

I had the same problem, so I just uninstalled catalyst and installed xf86-video-ati. 3D performance is better than I expected it to be, dual-head finally works and native resolution on a tty is also very nice. You should give it a try (if you don't depend on catalyst because of ... whatever).

schmidtbag · 2011-11-20 02:10:48

actually multiple monitors works fine for me on catalyst, and i get great performance out of it too. i do also do depend on it for software i've written. i have tried the open source drivers and there was something about them that really bothered me, i can't remember what that is at this point.

anyways, although this may possibly be a driver issue, i'd still like to explore other options. it does seem to be specifically a vlc problem. for example, if i watch a flash video in opera, it plays just fine. but if i open opera's cache and try playing the video in vlc, i'm brought to the login screen. i'm not sure if other programs are getting problems yet, but most things that use the gpu (such as kwin compositing) seem to work fine.

k_ibou · 2011-11-20 04:16:47

I suffer this bug too but with smplayer and vlc too. Also I can view flash videos without any issue.

schmidtbag · 2011-11-20 04:48:12

just to double check, are/were both of you using catalyst 11.11? also, are either of you using a compositor? that may be causing a problem. i'm personally using kwin.

ChemBro · 2011-11-20 08:28:10

Use "GLX" in the video setting of VLC instead of "XV".

schmidtbag · 2011-11-20 15:07:21

ChemBro wrote:

Use "GLX" in the video setting of VLC instead of "XV".

I had it set to "auto" before. by changing it to glx, I could play a video for a few seconds but it did eventually bring me to the login screen again. still, thats better than not even being able to see the first second of the video.

foobar42 · 2011-11-20 15:19:56

I'm having the same issue in vlc and smplayer. I updated from catalyst 11.10 to 11.11 today.

*edit*
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=57084&p=138

Last edited by foobar42 (2011-11-20 15:32:45)

Warper4 · 2011-11-20 16:03:49

I'm having the same issue in vlc and dragonplayer. I downgrade xorg to 1.10 version and now all is ok. The catalyst version is 11.11

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TheImmortalPhoenix · 2011-11-20 17:42:45

Warper4 wrote:

I'm having the same issue in vlc and dragonplayer. I downgrade xorg to 1.10 version and now all is ok. The catalyst version is 11.11

Which package of xorg did you downgrade?

Warper4 · 2011-11-20 19:52:34

TheImmortalPhoenix wrote:

Warper4 wrote:
I'm having the same issue in vlc and dragonplayer. I downgrade xorg to 1.10 version and now all is ok. The catalyst version is 11.11
Which package of xorg did you downgrade?

xorg-server and xorg-server-common

schmidtbag · 2011-11-20 20:25:12

can anyone else confirm that xorg is the problem? also, is everyone else here using catalyst drivers?

k_ibou · 2011-11-21 16:56:23

Im using catalyst 11.11 and KDE SC.

There´s some tips here
for VLC Solution 1

and for (s)mplayer we can try this Solution 2

I will try it when I get home.

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