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Robotman

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Registered: 2013-03-15

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Playing video freezes my laptop, except for the audio

Playing video in VLC or mplayer freezes my laptop, except for the audio, which continues to play.

Possibly related to upgrade.

Any ideas on why it's doing this?

Robotman

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Registered: 2013-03-15

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Re: Playing video freezes my laptop, except for the audio

(vlc:4225):IBUS-WARNING**: Unable to connect to ibus: Could not connect: Connection refused
Fontconfig warning: FcPattern object size does not accept value "0"

Last edited by Robotman (2013-07-09 22:20:51)

Robotman

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Re: Playing video freezes my laptop, except for the audio

I installed ffmpeg-full instead of ffmpeg, but it still does the same thing. Wtf?

drcouzelis

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Registered: 2009-11-09

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Re: Playing video freezes my laptop, except for the audio

I may be experiencing the same bug... Within the past week, mpv (mpv-git) will play audio correctly but video will either be "frozen" or run at around 1 frame every 5 seconds. I can close the video just fine, and videos still play correctly with mplayer2. Does this sound the same as your bug?

I'm using the open source radeon driver.

Robotman

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Re: Playing video freezes my laptop, except for the audio

It's worse, I'm afraid, drcouzelis. My whole laptop freezes up - the mouse won't move, and pressing ctrl-alt-fkey won't open a console. VLC or mplayer will open, but the actual video doesn't start. The audio plays. Doesn't matter which video it is.

Audacity gave me an error about ffmpeg, so I told it to use a file in /usr/lib/ffmpeg-compat, which fixed the Audacity problem. That's why I thought maybe it was an ffmpeg problem, and installed ffmpeg-full. Didn't change anything, tho.

brebs

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Re: Playing video freezes my laptop, except for the audio

Possibly related to upgrade

Yeah. My mplayer seems better after downgrading ffmpeg from 1.2.1 to 1.0.7 (2.0 breaks API again).

drcouzelis

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From: Connecticut, USA

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Re: Playing video freezes my laptop, except for the audio

Oops, I found a thread with my issue: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=166333

Sorry about hijacking your thread. Good luck!