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VLC 3.0 crashes on file open, VLC 2.2 is fine.

First of all, I would say I am an advanced beginner, so please bear with me.

I'm using a Retina MacBook Pro with GNOME 3 (running on Wayland) and have used VLC 2.2 from the official repositories perfectly fine for about 3 months. However, it doesn't really have support for HiDPI displays, and vlc-git from the AUR does. So I installed VLC 3 and I can open the actual application fine, but when I open a file, it crashes instantly. Here is the error message from the terminal:

VLC media player 3.0.0-git Vetinari (revision 2.2.0-git-14224-ge2d3d3b836)
[00000100d554d1a0] core libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface.
Using Wayland-EGL
Using the 'xdg-shell-v6' shell integration
[00007facc8001060] xcb vout display error: window not available
Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
[00007facc80042b0] xcb vout display error: window not available
libva info: VA-API version 0.40.0
libva info: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/dri/emgd_drv_video.so
libva info: va_openDriver() returns -1
[00007facc80045b0] gl gl error: vaInitialize: unknown libva error
libva info: VA-API version 0.40.0
libva info: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/dri/i965_drv_video.so
libva info: va_openDriver() returns -1
[00007facc80045b0] gl gl error: vaInitialize: unknown libva error
libva info: VA-API version 0.40.0
libva info: va_getDriverName() returns 1
libva error: va_getDriverName() failed with operation failed,driver_name=i965
[00007facc80045b0] gl gl error: vaInitialize: operation failed
[00007facc8004510] xcb vout display error: window not available
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

I'm sure the answer is glaringly obvious but I'm not sure what I'm looking for. Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

Last edited by SpontaneousAids (2017-08-09 23:11:25)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 21,743

Re: VLC 3.0 crashes on file open, VLC 2.2 is fine.

Post details on that coredump, try to disable hardware decoding in the preferences and/or see if you can reproduce in a Xorg session as opposed to a wayland session. Maybe it's also a problem of the revision you compiled, using -git builds that might happen from time to time.

Last edited by V1del (2017-08-10 07:05:48)