[SOLVED] VLC crashes on movie start

[LAlbert11]

Hi,

I've been looking through forums and helps, but didn't find any clue on how to fix this.

So, when I try to play a video with VLC, it crash instantly. Here is what I get:

VLC media player 1.1.12 The Luggage (revision exported)
Blocked: call to unsetenv("DBUS_ACTIVATION_ADDRESS")
Blocked: call to unsetenv("DBUS_ACTIVATION_BUS_TYPE")
[0x81c792c] main libvlc: Launching vlc with default interface. Use «*cvlc*» to launch VLC with no interface.
Blocked: call to setlocale(6, "")
Blocked: call to setlocale(6, "")
Blocked: call to putenv("LANGUAGE=")
libva: VA-API version 0.32.0
Xlib:  extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0".
libva: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva: Trying to open /usr/lib/dri/nvidia_drv_video.so
libva: va_openDriver() returns -1
Segmentation fault

I tried to launch it with gdb to get more information and get the backtrack, but here comes a weird thing. When launching VLC through gdb, it just doesn't crash :/

Any advice?

Thank you

[rokytnji]

Reading your thread brought me to

Alien Pastures » Decoding HD video in VLC

I have no advice for VLC as I run

$ apt-cache policy gnome-mplayer
gnome-mplayer:
  Installed: 1.0.5-1
  Candidate: 1.0.5-1
  Version table:
 *** 1.0.5-1 0
        500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing/main i386 Packages
        500 ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ sid/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

in my Beta AntiX install

Edit: Search term I used was Link

[LAlbert11]

Thanks

But I don't know why but after removing libva and vlc and reinstalling them, VLC seems to work.

[rokytnji]

Thanks

But I don't know why but after removing libva and vlc and reinstalling them, VLC seems to work.

Probably because the vlc you had re-installed was updated to a newer version with the patch as per this statement

Last weekend, the bug in VLC was fixed which made the player crash as soon as the VAAPI functions were called. My updated packages (32-bit and 64-bit) for vlc-1.1.0-rc3 are available now, with the patch included, and indeed I have no more crashes.