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Re: VLC froze twice: so reboot



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.
> 
> Anybody else had freeze problems with VLC?
> -- 
> Sian Mountbatten
> Algol 68 specialist
> 
> 

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

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 ?

I had a freeze yesterday while using vlc, but it turned out to be a more
general video driver bug.


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