Re: Issues running VLC on Xserver
On Wed, 23 Mar 2016 06:00:02 +0100
Himanshu Shekhar <irm2015006@iiita.ac.in> wrote:
> I have been using VLC for playing videos, as it scales up the video to fit
> the screen even if the size of video doesn't match the screen size. This
> was done using "Always fit windows" settings. However, after some recent
> update (no idea which one), videos with smaller resolution doesn't scale
> up. They run in the middle of the screen, and when "always fit windows" is
> checked, it runs in the same size in the top left corner of the window.
> Things work fine in GNOME Videos.
> This is not the same everywhere, as when I login to "GNOME on Wayland", VLC
> work fine. There is no issue.
>
> Also, when I change "Hardware accelerated decoding" to X11 codecs, few
> videos work well (mp4/mkv/avi), while sometimes (now-a-days frequent),
> entire RAM gets used up. On running VLC from Terminal, I saw some messages
> about segmentation fault.
I don't know, try:
$ vlc --reset-config
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CK
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