VLC FREEZES UP UBUNTU 11.4

[Ockie]

About 10 minutes after starting to watch a movie in VLC...it makes my laptop hang!

Any advice guys? Any of you experiencing the same thing?

And no...I was trying to watch "Clash of the Titans", and not gay porn that might have shocked my laptop into a coma!

PS: Sorry about the Caps...been multitasking like a SOB and did not notice it.

 

[Voicy]

About 10 minutes after starting to watch a movie in VLC...it makes my laptop hang!

And no...I was trying to watch "Clash of the Titans", and not gay porn that might have shocked my laptop into a coma!

I thought you'd enjoy a well hung lappy.

Unless it's bluray quality, your laptop should be fast enough to run it. However mkv (HD) files only seem to run via vlc and chomp a crapload of processing power. Sorry for not being able to assist with the problem, oclerouxenator.

 

[MyWorld]

So far no, and I use VLC on average a few hours a day over LAN and on the host.

What I would try is different video driver modes, in the VLC preferences, change video output to XVideo or X11, depending on the laptop GFX you could also try GLX.

Is it only VLC that does this? Other movie players work fine? Try "complete remove" and installing it again as well.

 

[Ockie]

So far no, and I use VLC on average a few hours a day over LAN and on the host.

What I would try is different video driver modes, in the VLC preferences, change video output to XVideo or X11, depending on the laptop GFX you could also try GLX.

Is it only VLC that does this? Other movie players work fine? Try "complete remove" and installing it again as well.

Ja...Ubuntu Movie Player works fine....it seems it is just VLC doing it. Think it might have something to do with my Nvidia card that VLC dont like...but then surely Movie Player should do the same thing?

 

[MyWorld]

I thought you'd enjoy a well hung lappy.

Unless it's bluray quality, your laptop should be fast enough to run it. However mkv (HD) files only seem to run via vlc and chomp a crapload of processing power. Sorry for not being able to assist with the problem, oclerouxenator.

I doubt that this would cause the laptop to hang, I run a variety of formats on my netbook and never had a problem thus far.
Oh, I almost forgot, if the update manager is running or if Synaptic or the Software Centre is running you can forget watching a movie on your laptop. Happened to me last night that a movie suddenly failed to play and I noticed the update manager doing it's thing. Killed it and everything was back to normal.

I think there might be a bug with Ubuntu application management software, in htop it reported Software Centre to run a 90%+ CPU power with nothing being installed and the same with Update Manager while it syncs.

 

[Ockie]

I thought you'd enjoy a well hung lappy.
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lolz.

no...just standard vids encoded as mp4 with H264 codec.

 

[ozoned]

I've had issues with VLC causing freezes. I'm running Lucid on desktop.
No issue with totem. I strongly suspect problem is with Nvidia card, or the driver.
I also get weird issues in FF with the mouse pointer sometimes going haywire.
Only occurs when using the Nvidia driver, not when using 2D, but I can't reliably reproduce the problem.

So yah, ur not the only one, but I can't give anything definitive. Removing VLC from FF plugins seems to help.

 

[DrJohnZoidberg]

I also have had issues with VLC before. Compiling it from source fixed my problems.

 

[jamster]

You need to disable all effects. You do this via the user screen when you bootup.

 

[Ockie]

I have done some reading on the VLC forum...and this is a known issue with version 1.9. They say it is fixed in version 1.2. I have just upgraded mine and will see if it fixes the freezing. Will report back.

 

[kingrob]

I have done some reading on the VLC forum...and this is a known issue with version 1.9. They say it is fixed in version 1.2. I have just upgraded mine and will see if it fixes the freezing. Will report back.

Huh? Version 1.2 fixes version 1.9?

You must stop taking those Hillbrow cookies.

 

[oldhat]

Current VLC(1.1.9) works well for me under Linux but hangs on Winslows :-( Previous version(1.1.8) used to hang with Linux!

 

[Ockie]

Huh? Version 1.2 fixes version 1.9?

You must stop taking those Hillbrow cookies.

lolz...soz man. My mistake. The new version (VLC media player 1.2.0-git Twoflower) not longer seems to freeze...but what happens now is that when I pause or ffwd through a video...it looses sound. I then have to change Audio Device under the "Audio" menu for sound to come back.....when I pause of ffwd again, same thing and I have to change audio device again! Very irritating!

 

[FHTheron]

I also have VLC crashes, but not reproducibly and every day.

It's a terrible terrible memory leak in my case it seems. It goes crazy grabbing all the free memory which slows down the whole system to the point of zero response. Once I decided to wait it out after trying, unsuccessfully, to login on another tty to see what was going on. The second tty would log in but never give a prompt - something I've seen with other memory trashers.

Eventually, the second tty printed a message about vlc's "score" (presumably about abuse/high resource usage) and that it has been killed. Switching back to the GUI everything started coming out of swap and was working just fine again.

I really prefer VLC and was wondering if the PPA will have a newer version. I've got a nice blackberry remote control app for VLC (just a pretty HTTP poller) and don't think I'm going to find one for Totem.

 

[FHTheron]

And there is is:
https://launchpad.net/vlc/+milestone/1.2.0 "#743323 vlc memory leak"

Sad part is the release is only planned for July this year. That's probably still sooner than when I get some free time to try and compile nightly sources.

 

[Ockie]

Oh Well....I am just using Movie Player for now. The big reason why I love VLC is because of the fantastic EQ is has. It gives Bass like no other media playeer!

 

[FHTheron]

What other nice player can do DVD ISOs properly? Totem (Movie Player) doesn't seem to.