Re: Problems with VLC in jessie

[Juan R. de Silva]

On Wed, 10 Feb 2016 23:38:03 -0500, Charles Kroeger wrote:

> On Mon, 08 Feb 2016 19:10:01 +0100 "Juan R. de Silva"
>  wrote:
> 
>> > If that does not help, please share the output of vlc -vvv.
>> 
>> Well, I did...
> 
> You might as well try this:
> 
> $ vlc --reset-config

Finally had time to get to this back again. Yes, this helped me. My .avi 
and .mp4 work now.

It did not fix the flickering issue with DVDs. But this is all different 
story, since in my own believe it is a problem that VLC has with my video 
card. And since for this I have a solution - SMPlayer, I do not bother. 
One day it get fixed either with nvidia driver update or with VLC update. 

Thank you.

Re: Problems with VLC in jessie

[Charles Kroeger]

On Mon, 08 Feb 2016 19:10:01 +0100
"Juan R. de Silva"  wrote:

> > If that does not help, please share the output of vlc -vvv.
> 
> Well, I did...

You might as well try this:

$ vlc --reset-config

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Re: Problems with VLC in jessie

[Juan R. de Silva]

> If that does not help, please share the output of vlc -vvv.

Well, I did...

Re: Problems with VLC in jessie

[Ric Moore]

On 02/06/2016 11:50 PM, Juan R. de Silva wrote:

Sorry, forgotten to mention I use Nvidia 340.96-1 proprietary driver.


Under tools/preferences/video pick "X11 video output (XCB)" then save 
and exit and re-start VLC again. I also use "GTK+" under the "interface" 
tab / "Force Window style". Good luck! Ric




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Re: Problems with VLC in jessie

[Sebastian Ramacher]

Hi

On 2016-02-07 04:45:16, Juan R. de Silva wrote:
> It is Dell Precision M4800 64 bit with Nvidia Quadro K2100M graphic card.
> 
> Since I've installed Jessie last year I have nothing but problems with 
> VLC:
> 
> 1. I can play DVDs but the screen is flickering awfully. Useless at 
> worse, can play some after a lot of preferences tweaking at best.
> 
> 2. I have a number of movies/videos in MP4, some in AVI format. Some of 
> MP4 play nicely but most of them and neither of AVI files do not play at 
> all. Usually the sound track is there but no video at all. Attempting to 
> play some of them actually hangs up the system and reboot is required.
> 
> For now I found a solution by installing SMPlayer. It plays everything 
> above without any problems.
> 
> I however would still prefer using VLC, to which I simply get used in 
> past years.

This may as well be a problem with the nvidia driver, so

* do you have nvidia-vdpau-driver installed?
* does it work better if you disable hardware decoding?

If that does not help, please share the output of vlc -vvv.

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Re: Problems with VLC in jessie

[Juan R. de Silva]

On Sun, 07 Feb 2016 08:53:21 -0500, Ric Moore wrote:

> On 02/06/2016 11:50 PM, Juan R. de Silva wrote:
>> Sorry, forgotten to mention I use Nvidia 340.96-1 proprietary driver.
> 
> Under tools/preferences/video pick "X11 video output (XCB)" then save
> and exit and re-start VLC again. I also use "GTK+" under the "interface"
> tab / "Force Window style". Good luck! Ric

Tried all of them before posting without any result.

Thanks

Re: Problems with VLC in jessie

[Juan R. de Silva]

> This may as well be a problem with the nvidia driver

I thought it this way initially but then...

If this is a driver problem, why SMPlaer plays everything just fine. And 
BTW, I forgotten to mention that even Totem also plays all my files and 
DVDs just fine. 

What is so peculiar about the nvidia driver when it comes to VLC then?

> * do you have nvidia-vdpau-driver installed?

Yes, it is installed.

> * does it work better if you disable hardware decoding?

No.

> If that does not help, please share the output of vlc -vvv.

Here it is...

http://pastebin.com/AxEdc2Jt

Re: Problems with VLC in jessie

[Juan R. de Silva]

Sorry, forgotten to mention I use Nvidia 340.96-1 proprietary driver.

Problems with VLC in jessie

[Juan R. de Silva]

It is Dell Precision M4800 64 bit with Nvidia Quadro K2100M graphic card.

Since I've installed Jessie last year I have nothing but problems with 
VLC:

1. I can play DVDs but the screen is flickering awfully. Useless at 
worse, can play some after a lot of preferences tweaking at best.

2. I have a number of movies/videos in MP4, some in AVI format. Some of 
MP4 play nicely but most of them and neither of AVI files do not play at 
all. Usually the sound track is there but no video at all. Attempting to 
play some of them actually hangs up the system and reboot is required.

For now I found a solution by installing SMPlayer. It plays everything 
above without any problems.

I however would still prefer using VLC, to which I simply get used in 
past years.

Tried to follow this WIKI https://wiki.debian.org/
MultimediaCodecs#Available_Codecs_for_Debian after installation. I would 
prefer to avoid not recomended deb-multimedia.org. 

Any advise, please?