[GTALUG] VLC unable to play video

[Daniel Wayne Armstrong]

Turns out I was bitten by this bug:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=802811

Removing libqt5x11extras5 (5.5.1-2) and replacing it with (5.4.2-2+b1)
retrieved from:

snapshot.debian.org/package/qtx11extras-opensource-src/5.4.2-2/#libqt5x11extras5_5.4.2-2:2b:b1

... fixed the issue with VLC.


On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 12:13 AM, Daniel Wayne Armstrong <
daniel at circuidipity.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 11:01 PM, Tom Low-Shang <tom at lowshang.com> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 09:11:29PM -0400, Daniel Wayne Armstrong wrote:
>> > Hi all... After a recent upgrade this week on a box running Debian
>> > stretch/testing the VLC media player continues to successfully play
>> audio
>> > MP3 files but crashes trying to play video files with the message:
>> >
>> > "Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_i965.so: cannot open shared
>> object
>> > file: No such file or directory
>> > Segmentation fault"
>> >
>> > VDPAU packages installed and their versions:
>> >
>> > ii  libvdpau-va-gl1:amd64                 0.3.4-3
>> > ii  libvdpau1:amd64                       1.1.1-2
>> > ii  mesa-vdpau-drivers:amd64              11.0.2-1
>> > ii  vdpau-driver-all:amd64                1.1.1-2
>> > ii  vdpau-va-driver:amd64                 0.7.4-4
>> >
>> > No updates are pending. Any ideas about how to fix this would be much
>> > appreciated!
>>
>> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=801457
>>
>> The reporter "removed the vdpau libraries". I would un-install the vdpau
>> packages instead. Hopefully the CPU can handle the video decoding
>
>
> Thanks for the link... I tried removing the libraries as suggested and VLC
> crashes with segmentation fault. Re-installed the libraries and VLC
> generates a segmentation fault for everything... simply opening and closing
> the program generates a fault. I tried changing the video output in VLC
> preferences from 'automatic' to a few different settings and it crashes
> over everything. Hmm....
>
>  I installed smplayer and it plays video files OK.
>



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