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silversnakeeyes

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From: Seattle, WA

Registered: 2009-11-14

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VLC .Avi Playback fluctuates with acpi=off

I originally changed grub to boot with acpi off because of frequent crashes requiring hard resets. But now I've discovered that I cannot play .Avi videos when acpi=off, it opens, then immediately closes. It has no problem opening, just playing the 5 different .Avi's I've tried (Watching recent movies, 2012/Inglorious basterds/ etc.)

Any suggestions?

At the moment, I have to stop everything I'm doing, reset, type e to edit the kernel options in grub for Arch, and then delete acpi=off, boot, watch what I want to watch, have it freeze when done, and then restart again so I can use my computer.

silversnakeeyes

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From: Seattle, WA

Registered: 2009-11-14

Posts: 31

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Re: VLC .Avi Playback fluctuates with acpi=off

I've discovered, if I try to open VLC at all, it crashes. Not only that, I cannot play ANY video file in ANY media player with acpi off. I dunno how the power settings could cause video playback to err, but I'll keep looking for answers...