Hi On 2016-02-07 04:45:16, Juan R. de Silva wrote: > It is Dell Precision M4800 64 bit with Nvidia Quadro K2100M graphic card. > > Since I've installed Jessie last year I have nothing but problems with > VLC: > > 1. I can play DVDs but the screen is flickering awfully. Useless at > worse, can play some after a lot of preferences tweaking at best. > > 2. I have a number of movies/videos in MP4, some in AVI format. Some of > MP4 play nicely but most of them and neither of AVI files do not play at > all. Usually the sound track is there but no video at all. Attempting to > play some of them actually hangs up the system and reboot is required. > > For now I found a solution by installing SMPlayer. It plays everything > above without any problems. > > I however would still prefer using VLC, to which I simply get used in > past years. This may as well be a problem with the nvidia driver, so * do you have nvidia-vdpau-driver installed? * does it work better if you disable hardware decoding? If that does not help, please share the output of vlc -vvv. Cheers -- Sebastian Ramacher
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