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Jubijub

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From: Zurich, Switzerland

Registered: 2018-04-04

Posts: 42

KDE / VLC - video plays for 1 sec then stops

Hello,

I have a weird problem with VLC :
- launching vlc via command line
- drag & drop the video I want to read (an MKV file on an SMB share)
- Arch linux up to date, using NVIDIA DKMS and VDPAU
- the SMB user is the admin, so had RW rights on the folder.

  ~  vlc                                                                                                                  23:23:20 
VLC media player 3.0.1 Vetinari (revision 3.0.1-0-gec0f700fcc)
[000055b2c40635d0] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface.
[000055b2c4067140] main playlist: playlist is empty
uint DBusMenuExporterDBus::GetLayout(int, int, const QStringList&, DBusMenuLayoutItem&): Condition failed: menu
uint DBusMenuExporterDBus::GetLayout(int, int, const QStringList&, DBusMenuLayoutItem&): Condition failed: menu
[00007f2b9c001b90] filesystem stream error: read error: Invalid argument
[00007f2b9cc15740] mkv demux error: Error while reading Tag 
[00007f2b9c001b90] filesystem stream error: read error: Input/output error
[00007f2b9c001b90] filesystem stream error: read error: Input/output error
[00007f2b9cc0dba0] filesystem stream error: read error: Invalid argument
[00007f2b80002be0] egl_x11 gl error: cannot select OpenGL API
uint DBusMenuExporterDBus::GetLayout(int, int, const QStringList&, DBusMenuLayoutItem&): Condition failed: menu
[00007f2b9d848720] avcodec decoder: Using NVIDIA VDPAU Driver Shared Library  390.48  Wed Mar 21 23:47:29 PDT 2018 for hardware decoding
[00007f2b9d848720] main decoder error: buffer deadlock prevented
[00007f2b9c001b90] filesystem stream error: read error: Input/output error
[00007f2b9c001b90] filesystem stream error: read error: Input/output error

What happens :
- the video starts to play (VLC resizes to the proper video size)
- I get sound and subtitles, for a brief second
- then VLC stops, and goes back to its original size, with the blank screen as if I had no video loaded

Workarounds / tests :
- the video works perfectly fine with mplayer on the same computer, playing from the SMB share
- just tested : the video works fine if copied locally on the computer

I am evaluating KDE instead of GNOME, so all I installed is plasma-meta package, I may miss something important.

Last edited by Jubijub (2018-05-10 19:32:20)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,074

Re: KDE / VLC - video plays for 1 sec then stops

How is the SMB share mounted? If you use direct KDE support that SMB implementation is a bit clunky with non KDE utilities, and if you drag and drop it's likely that only a single frame comes through, that is copied to a temp directory and VLC just plays the first frame will the rest of the copy happens..

And FWIW VLC has it's own SMB support and it might use a more specific implementation if you were to use the SMB URL directly instead of relying on some undefined direct file playback implementation.

Last edited by V1del (2018-05-11 07:43:45)

Jubijub

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From: Zurich, Switzerland

Registered: 2018-04-04

Posts: 42

Re: KDE / VLC - video plays for 1 sec then stops

I did use KDE (mounted via Dolphin).

I will other ways as you suggest.