Re: VLC froze twice: so reboot

[Sian Mountbatten <poenikatu@fastmail.co.uk>]

On 01/03/12 17:50, tv.debian@googlemail.com wrote:
> 01/03/2012 18:01, Sian Mountbatten wrote:
> > Hello All!
> >
> > I started to watch a DVD last night with VLC when the screen froze.
> > Nothing would work, neither the mouse nor the keyboard. I did a H/W
> > reset and rebooted the OS and VLC. I set the film to close to where
> > it froze and went on watching. A few minutes later, the computer froze
> > again.
> >
> > This time, after I had done the H/W reset and rebooted the OS, I started
> > using Kaffeine. No more problems. Then, this morning, I watched another
> > DVD using Kaffeine and again no problems.
> >
> > The version of VLC was 2.0.0 with KDE 4.7.2 and kernel
> >     3.2-7.towo.2-siduction-686 #1 SMP PREEMPT
> > I am using the siduction distribution which is based on Debian unstable.

> Hi, what is the video driver in use (i.e. nvidia, fglrx, radeon,
> nouveau, intel) ?
Nvidia, AFAIK.

> Did you try to launch vlc from the command line with "-v" option:
>
> vlc -v /path/to/video
>
> to see if it prints any error ?
No, I did not.

> I had a freeze yesterday while using vlc, but it turned out to be a more
> general video driver bug.
I shall try Kaffeine next time I want to watch a DVD.
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Sian Mountbatten
Algol 68 specialist