On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 11:01 PM, Tom Low-Shang <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 09:11:29PM -0400, Daniel Wayne Armstrong wrote: > > Hi all... After a recent upgrade this week on a box running Debian > > stretch/testing the VLC media player continues to successfully play audio > > MP3 files but crashes trying to play video files with the message: > > > > "Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_i965.so: cannot open shared object > > file: No such file or directory > > Segmentation fault" > > > > VDPAU packages installed and their versions: > > > > ii libvdpau-va-gl1:amd64 0.3.4-3 > > ii libvdpau1:amd64 1.1.1-2 > > ii mesa-vdpau-drivers:amd64 11.0.2-1 > > ii vdpau-driver-all:amd64 1.1.1-2 > > ii vdpau-va-driver:amd64 0.7.4-4 > > > > No updates are pending. Any ideas about how to fix this would be much > > appreciated! > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=801457 > > The reporter "removed the vdpau libraries". I would un-install the vdpau > packages instead. Hopefully the CPU can handle the video decoding Thanks for the link... I tried removing the libraries as suggested and VLC crashes with segmentation fault. Re-installed the libraries and VLC generates a segmentation fault for everything... simply opening and closing the program generates a fault. I tried changing the video output in VLC preferences from 'automatic' to a few different settings and it crashes over everything. Hmm.... I installed smplayer and it plays video files OK.
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