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techwiz

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Registered: 2012-01-26

Posts: 48

VLC controls go MIA in fullscreen & Xorg 100% cpu

Hey guys,

I ran across a weird issue where randomly (although rather frequently) VLC's controls will visibly vanish but still be "usable." There's a semi-visible box where the controls should be and I can hover over and see tool-tips.

I'm not sure if this is a VLC issue or an Xorg issue since Xorg will peg my CPU while in fullscreen and continue doing so after VLC is done. I was wondering if anyone else has seen such a thing happen before and if anyone knows how to fix it (or at least have some leads).

r0b0t

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From: /tmp

Registered: 2009-05-24

Posts: 511

Re: VLC controls go MIA in fullscreen & Xorg 100% cpu

mm, can you post some screenshot of vlc before and during the issue?

techwiz

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Registered: 2012-01-26

Posts: 48

Re: VLC controls go MIA in fullscreen & Xorg 100% cpu

I don't think screenshots are doing the issue justice here... Basically, the control box near the bottom of the fullscreen videos gets overlaid by the video so it's no longer visible (as it would normally when it's fullscreen) and when you hover over the control box, the box is "there" and usable but you can't see it. The video likes to lag a little where the box is supposed to be so you can make out the outline of the box by where the video starts to lag and tooltips are available. That's really all there is to it and I can't really manage to capture that on a screenshot. I'll keep try and see if I can finally get one that's lagging enough to be clearly visible.

techwiz

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Registered: 2012-01-26

Posts: 48

Re: VLC controls go MIA in fullscreen & Xorg 100% cpu

Hey guys, I managed to get a screenshot but I can't capture the control box's "lag rectangle"

In this screenshot you can see I'm hovering on the timeline and see a tooltip for the time I have targeted on the timeline but no actual controls.

Picture is 1920x1080 as I don't have time to crop it, sorry

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: VLC controls go MIA in fullscreen & Xorg 100% cpu

Remove or rename your configuration: ~/.config/vlc.

What graphics card and drivers are you using?

I found https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/36911 but I guess it deals with some other issue.

techwiz

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Registered: 2012-01-26

Posts: 48

Re: VLC controls go MIA in fullscreen & Xorg 100% cpu

Moving .config/vlc didn't fix anything unfortunately.

I'm using Intel-DRI on HD 4000 because optimus kicked the bucket recently and I haven't been able to recover it. I'm starting to think this is exclusively an X bug and VLC is just a victim as there's really no way to reproduce it consistently.