VLC would NOT work in any case on my system. Tried with many different video output settings, NOT REALIZING I HAD TO CLOSE VLC TO APPLY THEM, so I pressed the "reset preferences" button, and after closing and loading it up once more it worked again.
No idea what caused this. strace is here for the record. http://pastebin.sabayon.org/pasties/store/8406/log.txt On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 7:49 PM, Lorenzo Cogotti <[email protected]> wrote: > Long ago, VAAPI use on VLC was disabled due to a Nvidia issue with that > flag that made VLC segfault, support was also occasionally unstable on > other GPUs. > > Since VLC2 claims its GPU support to be no more experimental, this USE > flag is now enabled (along with egl) and begs for testing. > media-video/vlc-2.0.0 > > More details on this discussion can be found on bug 2713: > https://bugs.sabayon.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2713 > > For KDE4 users, phonon and phonon-vlc packages were also updated and > need testing: > media-libs/phonon-4.6.0-r1 > media-libs/phonon-vlc-0.5.0 > > -- > Lorenzo Cogotti > >
