[SOLVED] Problem using VLC ( aka Videolan)

[Satboy]

Hi,
Every time I try to watch a video with VLC it happens the same.Mageia crashes & reloads again.
Any help will be apreciated.

Thanx!

Bye!

P.S.I can listen to radio (stream) with VLC without any problem.

[rob]

This doesn't answer your problem but this happens to me when I use Stellarium.
either when I select an object and rotate the view to it or as I exit. Both will cause either a log off to log in gui or a restart to terminal log in.
have just loaded vlc and kaffeine , other than the lack of sound (no mp4a encoder) they ran fine.

update Bangarang crashes out too
but still shows in system activity for times, kmplayer twice along with kaffeine - one is showing as disk sleep but none can be killed off.
banshee works but locks up then halts
sorry getting off topic now

[isadora]

This doesn't answer your problem but this happens to me when I use Stellarium.
either when I select an object and rotate the view to it or as I exit. Both will cause either a log off to log in gui or a restart to terminal log in.
have just loaded vlc and kaffeine , other than the lack of sound (no mp4a encoder) they ran fine.

update Bangarang crashes out too
but still shows in system activity for times, kmplayer twice along with kaffeine - one is showing as disk sleep but none can be killed off.
banshee works but locks up then halts
sorry getting off topic now

The last line of your message, saved you

Please be so kind to split up your questions, and give it it's own dedicated topics.
It's better for you getting answers, better for the rest of the world finding back answers.

[doktor5000]

VLC is working fine here, videos, music, converting stuff ....

Is this on Mageia 1 or on Cauldron (Mageia development version)?
What VLC packages do you have installed?

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rpm -qa | grep vlc

What desktop environment (GNOME, KDE ...) are you using, what graphics card,
and dou you have 3D / desktop effects activated?

[Satboy]

VLC is working fine here, videos, music, converting stuff ....

Is this on Mageia 1 or on Cauldron (Mageia development version)?
What VLC packages do you have installed?

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rpm -qa | grep vlc

What desktop environment (GNOME, KDE ...) are you using, what graphics card,
and dou you have 3D / desktop effects activated?

Hi,
Sorry, I forgot to tell the details of my O.S.:

Mageia 1 64 bits with Gnome desktop
No 3D / desktop effects activated
Graphic card SIS 670/671
Resolution is Automatic
I installed almost all VLC packages (mistake?)

Thanx!!

[doktor5000]

No, you only forgot to tell which vlc packages you have installed, please show the output of:

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rpm -qa | grep vlc

[Satboy]

Hi,
This are the packges I've got:

phonon-vlc-0.4.0-1.mga1
vlc-plugin-speex-1.1.11-0.1.mga1
vlc-plugin-aa-1.1.11-0.1.mga1
vlc-plugin-common-1.1.11-0.1.mga1
vlc-plugin-bonjour-1.1.11-0.1.mga1
lib64vlccore4-1.1.11-0.1.mga1
vlc-plugin-mpc-1.1.11-0.1.mga1
vlc-plugin-lua-1.1.11-0.1.mga1
vlc-plugin-mod-1.1.11-0.1.mga1
vlc-plugin-pulse-1.1.11-0.1.mga1
vlc-1.1.11-0.1.mga1
vlc-plugin-lirc-1.1.11-0.1.mga1
vlc-plugin-libass-1.1.11-0.1.mga1
vlc-plugin-schroedinger-1.1.11-0.1.mga1
mozilla-plugin-vlc-1.1.11-0.1.mga1
lib64vlc5-1.1.11-0.1.mga1
vlc-plugin-libnotify-1.1.11-0.1.mga1
vlc-plugin-fluidsynth-1.1.11-0.1.mga1
vlc-plugin-theora-1.1.11-0.1.mga1
vlc-plugin-flac-1.1.11-0.1.mga1
vlc-plugin-jack-1.1.11-0.1.mga1
vlc-plugin-ncurses-1.1.11-0.1.mga1
vlc-plugin-zvbi-1.1.11-0.1.mga1
vlc-plugin-gme-1.1.11-0.1.mga1
vlc-plugin-shout-1.1.11-0.1.mga1
vlc-plugin-ggi-1.1.11-0.1.mga1
vlc-plugin-sdl-1.1.11-0.1.mga1
vlc-plugin-kate-1.1.11-0.1.mga1
vlc-plugin-svgalib-1.1.11-0.1.mga1
vlc-plugin-opengl-1.1.11-0.1.mga1
vlc-plugin-twolame-1.1.11-0.1.mga1
vlc-plugin-dv-1.1.11-0.1.mga1
vlc-plugin-projectm-1.1.11-0.1.mga1
vlc-plugin-upnp-1.1.11-0.1.mga1
vlc-plugin-gnutls-1.1.11-0.1.mga1

Bye!

[ahmad]

For a SiS graphics card try switching to X11, open VLC →Tools → Preferences → Video, change the Output to X11 Video Output (XCB).

[Satboy]

Hi,
working fine now,but still having an error message:
"VLC does not support this video or audio format "mp4a"."

Any help?

Thanx!

Bye!

[doktor5000]

You can try switching to the Tainted version of VLC, which enables more codecs.
For this, run drakrpm-edit-media as root and activate the tainted_release and tainted_updates sources,
they should be there but disabled.

Then wait for the next update, or in software management (rpmdrake) switch the Filter to "All Updates"
and select the VLC package from tainted, should update all your current vlc packages.

[ahmad]

Or update the system from terminal using urpmi:

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su
urpmi --auto-update -v

[Satboy]

You can try switching to the Tainted version of VLC, which enables more codecs.
For this, run drakrpm-edit-media as root and activate the tainted_release and tainted_updates sources,
they should be there but disabled.

Then wait for the next update, or in software management (rpmdrake) switch the Filter to "All Updates"
and select the VLC package from tainted, should update all your current vlc packages.

I just did what you suggested, and i had the same error message again.

Thank you, anyway!!

Bye!

[doktor5000]

The problem is, if you want to hear AAC-encoded audio, be it embedded in a video or in music files, you will have no luck.
Due to patents and Copyright problems, FAAC, the library which would enable to decode this, is not available in Mageia.
Please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAAC

[wobo]

The problem is, if you want to hear AAC-encoded audio, be it embedded in a video or in music files, you will have no luck.
Due to patents and Copyright problems, FAAC, the library which would enable to decode this, is not available in Mageia.

More clearly: it is not yet available in Mageia repos. This nature of the library (among others) caused a discussion in the dev list about where to put it in repos (tainted_free / tainted_non-free). The discussion has ended but the consequentual actions have not yet been taken, due to summer holiday season mostly. (Doktor, pls correct me if I'm wrong)

[doktor5000]

Well, the discussion has come to a standstill, not ended. My try to bump it (again) failed, seems we have to wait till holidays are over.

[ahmad]

faad for decoding/playing back AAC encoded files
faac to encode using the AAC codec

You only need faad, which is available in the Tainted repos, to play back AAC-encoded files.

What's the output of:
rpm -qa | grep tainted | sort

[Satboy]

faad for decoding/playing back AAC encoded files
faac to encode using the AAC codec

You only need faad, which is available in the Tainted repos, to play back AAC-encoded files.

What's the output of:
rpm -qa | grep tainted | sort

Hi,
First of all thanx very much Doktor & Wobo for you clear explanations.
Ahmad, that's what I've got:

lib64freetype6-2.4.4-5.1.mga1.tainted
lib64rtmp0-2.3-3.1.mga1.tainted
lib64vlc5-1.1.11-0.1.mga1.tainted
lib64vlccore4-1.1.11-0.1.mga1.tainted
vlc-1.1.11-0.1.mga1.tainted
vlc-plugin-pulse-1.1.11-0.1.mga1.tainted

Thanx for your pacience, guys!!

[ahmad]

You didn't update the system fully after enabling the Tainted repos, for example vlc-plugin-common isn't the one from tainted (as it didn't show up in 'rpm -qa | grep tainted'. So make sure the Tainted Release and Tainted Updates repos are enabled, then as root:

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su
urpmi --auto-update -v

then try again.

[Satboy]

You didn't update the system fully after enabling the Tainted repos, for example vlc-plugin-common isn't the one from tainted (as it didn't show up in 'rpm -qa | grep tainted'. So make sure the Tainted Release and Tainted Updates repos are enabled, then as root:

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su
urpmi --auto-update -v

then try again.

Hi,
I just update it and you were right "vlc-plugin-common" wasn't istalled.Now everything works fine!!
See:

ffmpeg-0.6.3-2.mga1.tainted
gstreamer0.10-faad-0.10.21-3.mga1.tainted
gstreamer0.10-lame-0.10.17-2.mga1.tainted
gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-0.10.21-3.mga1.tainted
gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-0.10.17-2.mga1.tainted
gstreamer0.10-soundtouch-0.10.21-3.mga1.tainted
gstreamer0.10-voip-0.10.21-3.mga1.tainted
lib64avformats52-0.6.3-2.mga1.tainted
lib64avutil50-0.6.3-2.mga1.tainted
lib64ffmpeg52-0.6.3-2.mga1.tainted
lib64freetype6-2.4.4-5.1.mga1.tainted
lib64gstphotography0.10_0-0.10.21-3.mga1.tainted
lib64postproc51-0.6.3-2.mga1.tainted
lib64quicktime0-1.2.2-3.mga1.tainted
lib64rtmp0-2.3-3.1.mga1.tainted
lib64swscaler0-0.6.3-2.mga1.tainted
lib64vlc5-1.1.11-0.1.mga1.tainted
lib64vlccore4-1.1.11-0.1.mga1.tainted
lib64vo-aacenc0-0.1.1-2.mga1.tainted
lib64vo-amrwbenc0-0.1.1-2.mga1.tainted
mencoder-1.0-1.rc4.0.r32713.5.mga1.tainted
mplayer-1.0-1.rc4.0.r32713.5.mga1.tainted
vlc-1.1.11-0.1.mga1.tainted
vlc-plugin-common-1.1.11-0.1.mga1.tainted
vlc-plugin-pulse-1.1.11-0.1.mga1.tainted

Thanx very much indeed!!

[wobo]

Now everything works fine!! .... Thanx very much indeed!!

Marking this topic as solved.

[pradhanphy]

Really Thanks guys...
initially i had same problem with vlc,smplayer,mplayer,kaffeine ,
video would works fine but no sound..vlc will give a output like this "VLC does not support the audio or video format "mp4a" ...."
Including "tainted" repo and "urpmi --auto-update -v " does the job.