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fettouhi

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Registered: 2007-05-07

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[SOLVED] Vlc crashing when trying to play wmv, asf and mov files

For the last few days now every time I try to play files that are wmv, asf and mov vlc crashes. The files work fine in dragon player and others but not in vlc anymore. All other filetypes like avi, mp4, mp3, mkv etc. for fine. Is there a bug in vlc ATM?

Here is the output from playing a wmv file

[af@andre ~]$ vlc
VLC media player 2.1.5 Rincewind (revision 2.1.4-49-gdab6cb5)
[0x1c271f8] main libvlc: VLC kører med standardbrugerfladen. Brug "cvlc" for at køre VLC uden brugerflade.
Object::connect: No such signal org::freedesktop::UPower::DeviceAdded(QString)
Object::connect: No such signal org::freedesktop::UPower::DeviceRemoved(QString)
Fontconfig warning: FcPattern object size does not accept value "0"
Fontconfig warning: FcPattern object size does not accept value "0"
Fontconfig warning: FcPattern object size does not accept value "0"
Fontconfig warning: FcPattern object size does not accept value "0"
[0x7fbed4c0fcc8] main vout display error: Failed to resize display
[0x7fbecc0009b8] main input error: ES_OUT_SET_(GROUP_)PCR  is called too late (pts_delay increased to 1000 ms)
[0x7fbecc0009b8] main input error: ES_OUT_RESET_PCR called
Segmentation fault

Last edited by fettouhi (2014-10-02 08:38:20)

Lone_Wolf

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Re: [SOLVED] Vlc crashing when trying to play wmv, asf and mov files

i tested a few wmv files myself, they give different errors but also segfault .

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fettouhi

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Registered: 2007-05-07

Posts: 745

Re: [SOLVED] Vlc crashing when trying to play wmv, asf and mov files

So it seems to be a bug then.

Potomac

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Registered: 2011-12-25

Posts: 528

Re: [SOLVED] Vlc crashing when trying to play wmv, asf and mov files

it's the same bug like this :

https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/41369#comment126681

the solution is to rebuild the vlc package with the last version of ffmpeg, it's easy to do with makepkg/ABS,

but the vlc maintener seems on holidays, still no new vlc package

Last edited by Potomac (2014-08-21 13:29:49)

fettouhi

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Registered: 2007-05-07

Posts: 745

Re: [SOLVED] Vlc crashing when trying to play wmv, asf and mov files

Fixed now after the update of vlc.