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Ulf

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Registered: 2007-08-26

Posts: 46

Mplayer/Vlc hard lock ups

Hello forum,

i have been using Archlinux for some months now and so far the only issue is that Mplayer/Vlc seems very unstable. For some time i didn't have any problems but I guess that after upgrading glibc or glib that I experience hard lock ups in the kernel (flashing lights on the keyboard). Only happens when watching movies in mplayer/vlc. No error logs indicating what the problem could be. Anyone experiencing the same?

Running Arch64 (duh...) on a dual opteron 250, xfce4/e17, quadro-fx 1100

Thanks for help,
Ulf

tony5429

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Registered: 2006-03-28

Posts: 1,017

Re: Mplayer/Vlc hard lock ups

yes; today vlc kept locking up on my arch64 system...

Ulf

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Registered: 2007-08-26

Posts: 46

Re: Mplayer/Vlc hard lock ups

Good, than it is not just me, sorry tony I hope it gets fixed soon...I recompiled mplayer but it still locks up.

tony5429

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Registered: 2006-03-28

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Re: Mplayer/Vlc hard lock ups

i havent had a problem with this since that day. maybe the new packages are the reason why it works now?

Ulf

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Registered: 2007-08-26

Posts: 46

Re: Mplayer/Vlc hard lock ups

I downgraded my nvidia drivers to version 96xx and now the issue seems to be solved.

Ulf

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Registered: 2007-08-26

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Re: Mplayer/Vlc hard lock ups

not...recompiled ffmpeg, mplayer and now i could watch a vid for more than 40 continuous minutes...the saga continues....

skottish

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Registered: 2006-06-16

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Re: Mplayer/Vlc hard lock ups

It was probably the upgrade to glibc (8/25/2007) that did this. You'll notice that FFMPEG depends on zlib which in turn depends on glibc. It seems like FFMPEG is the reason why VLC keeps breaking too. It's a little hard to track because FFMPEG keeps happily plugging away.

Ulf

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Registered: 2007-08-26

Posts: 46

Re: Mplayer/Vlc hard lock ups

Well i figured it was due to glibc, it happened before and i was already building/trying a new distro. Luckily the arch linux guys posted a message about the mplayer/flash/firefox/zlib/glibc bug. After the updates it worked again but then there was yet another release of glibc and it broke things again...Guess i should be more carefull with updating.

If i experience more crashes i'll try recompiling zlib, ffmpeg, vlc and mplayer (in that order).

skottish

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Registered: 2006-06-16

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Re: Mplayer/Vlc hard lock ups

I build FFMPEG from subversion at least once a week, so for me simply rebuilding VLC fixes it. I haven't had to rebuild MPlayer in a very long time.

Ulf

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Registered: 2007-08-26

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Re: Mplayer/Vlc hard lock ups

Thanks for the tips. Will rebuild vlc too. Hope things will turn out stable.