Same problem (assumed) here with Kubuntu 16.04, and Kubuntu 17.10.
Nvidia 384.90 video drivers.
Seeking in large files causes VLC to hang freezing the desktop session.
Sometimes I can CTL-ALT-F2 and get a console session. VLC cant be
killed, wont even die with a -9 for several minutes.
Sometimes I cant even CTL-ALT-F2 to a console. Graphical console is
completely frozen.
I can ssh in, which leads me to believe that the problem is not that the
entire system is frozen, just something in the video side.
Ive tried every setting in VLC I can from disabling hardware
acceleration, use/dont use VDPAU, etc..
Other video players which do use HW Acceleration seem to have no issue.
The larger the file, the more I seek/skip, the more likley VLC is to
trigger the freeze.
Relevant Graphical PKGS:
rc libcg:amd64 3.1.0013-2
amd64 Nvidia Cg core runtime library
rc libcggl:amd64 3.1.0013-2
amd64 Nvidia Cg Opengl runtime library
all X Window System (X.Org) infrastructure
ii xfonts-utils 1:7.7+4
amd64 X Window System font utility programs
ii xorg 1:7.7+19ubuntu3
amd64 X.Org X Window System
ii libvdpau1:amd64 1.1.1-3ubuntu1
amd64 Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix
(libraries)
ii libvdpau1:i386 1.1.1-3ubuntu1
i386 Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix
(libraries)
ii mesa-vdpau-drivers:amd64 17.2.2-0ubuntu1
amd64 Mesa VDPAU video acceleration drivers
ii mesa-vdpau-drivers:i386 17.2.2-0ubuntu1
i386 Mesa VDPAU video acceleration drivers
ii vdpau-driver-all:amd64 1.1.1-3ubuntu1
amd64 Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix
(driver metapackage)
ii vdpau-driver-all:i386 1.1.1-3ubuntu1
i386 Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix
(driver metapackage)
ii vdpau-va-driver:amd64 0.7.4-6
amd64 VDPAU-based backend for VA API
ii vdpau-va-driver:i386 0.7.4-6
i386 VDPAU-based backend for VA API
ii vdpauinfo 1.0-1
amd64 Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix
(vdpauinfo utility)
ii libvlc-bin:amd64 2.2.6-6
amd64 tools for VLC's base library
ii libvlc5:amd64 2.2.6-6
amd64 multimedia player and streamer library
rc libvlccore5 2.0.8-1
amd64 base library for VLC and its modules
rc libvlccore7 2.1.6-0ubuntu14.04.1
amd64 base library for VLC and its modules
ii libvlccore8:amd64 2.2.6-6
amd64 base library for VLC and its modules
ii vlc 2.2.6-6
amd64 multimedia player and streamer
ii vlc-bin 2.2.6-6
amd64 binaries from VLC
ii vlc-data 2.2.6-6
all Common data for VLC
ii vlc-l10n 2.2.6-6
all Translations for VLC
rc vlc-nox
3.0.0~~git20160813+r65787+62~ubuntu16.04.1 amd64 multimedia player
and streamer (without X support)
ii vlc-plugin-base:amd64 2.2.6-6
amd64 multimedia player and streamer (base plugins)
ii vlc-plugin-notify:amd64 2.2.6-6
amd64 LibNotify plugin for VLC
ii vlc-plugin-qt:amd64 2.2.6-6
amd64 multimedia player and streamer (Qt plugin)
ii vlc-plugin-samba:amd64 2.2.6-6
amd64 Samba plugin for VLC
ii vlc-plugin-skins2:amd64 2.2.6-6
amd64 multimedia player and streamer (Skins2 plugin)
ii vlc-plugin-video-output:amd64 2.2.6-6
amd64 multimedia player and streamer (video output
plugins)
ii vlc-plugin-video-splitter:amd64 2.2.6-6
amd64 multimedia player and streamer (video
splitter plugins)
ii vlc-plugin-visualization:amd64 2.2.6-6
amd64 multimedia player and streamer (visualization
plugins)
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1574354
Title:
playing .mp4 in VLC freezes machine
Status in mesa package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
VLC was running fine on 15.10 but since upgrading, video files (e.g.
.mp4) play for a few minutes and then crash the whole machine (i.e. I
have to power off and on). Possibly linked is that audio (in web pages
or playing audio files thru Banshee) loops (stutters) for about a
second every few minutes (but doesn't crash the machine).
vlc-nox: /usr/bin/vlc
Description: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
Release: 16.04
vlc:
Installed: 2.2.2-5
Candidate: 2.2.2-5
Version table:
*** 2.2.2-5 500
500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: vlc 2.2.2-5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-21.37-generic 4.4.6
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-21-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Sun Apr 24 19:20:41 2016
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-02-17 (797 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Release amd64
(20131016.1)
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: vlc
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2016-04-22 (2 days ago)
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