Bug 20503

Summary:	New version of vlc has various problems
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	w unruh <unruh>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Shlomi Fish <shlomif>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:
Severity:	major
Priority:	High	CC:	davidwhodgins, ghibomgx, lists.jjorge, marja11
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	vlc-3.0.0-0.git.6.mga6.tainted.src.rpm	CVE:
Status comment:

Description w unruh 2017-03-16 15:40:07 CET

Description of problem:Updated cauldron, which included an update of vlc. Now vlc does not open if no file to be played whick means it cannot be opened from desktop icon.

opening it from clivlc Download/<filename>
VLC media player 3.0.0-git Vetinari (revision 2.2.0-git-10730-gf3a81d2)
[00000000018ad288] core libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface.
[000000000196fec8] qt interface error: Unable to load extensions module
[00007fc1f40109e8] equalizer audio filter error: No preset selected
[0000000001940c58] core audio output error: cannot add user audio filter "equalizer" (skipped)
Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_va_gl.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
[0000000001933758] core playlist: end of playlist, exiting
QObject::~QObject: Timers cannot be stopped from another thread onafile I get

/lib/vdpau/* existed but with no libvdpau-va-gl1. 
/lib64/vdpau was empty. Ie the dependencies for vlc were incomplete.

loading 
urpmi -y -a libvdpau solved that, but not the problem that vlc refused to open without a playlist nor the gt problem (another bad dependency?)









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Rémi Verschelde 2017-03-16 15:46:25 CET

Priority: Normal => High
CC: (none) => ghibomgx, lists.jjorge
Assignee: bugsquad => shlomif

Comment 1 w unruh 2017-03-17 03:39:24 CET

I have been told in alt.os.linux.mageia that the gl message is just a nuisance message. and that the libvdpau is not really needed (altough after I installed it, the cli message from vlc said a file was loaded from /lib64/vdpau/) 
It seems that the reinstall put the line
play-and-exit=1
into .config/vlc/vlcrc. Setting it to 0 now stopped vlc from exiting if it had no file to play, so I could open it from the desktop icon. Note that I cannot find this option anywhere in the preferences options in vlc. especially the pay-and-exit one, since the desktop icon is pretty useless with it set to 1.


So, it seems the solutions are small but it would probably be good to put them into the vlc package.

Comment 2 Dave Hodgins 2017-03-17 04:53:06 CET

Found the setting. Tools/Preferences. In the lower left, select All instead of
Simple, then select Playlist. On the right, one of the options is to play and exit.

The option is not selected on a fresh install of vlc on m6 or in my m5 install.

While the play and exit option is in ~/.config/vlc/vlcrc, it's commented out,
so has no effect.

The --play-and-exit is also available when running vlc from the command line,
but it does not alter the vlcrc setting.

No idea how the option was selected. In short, I can not reproduce the problem.

For anyone running into this in the future, finding this bug report a work around
is to run vlc from the command line with the option --no-play-and-exit

CC: (none) => davidwhodgins

Comment 3 w unruh 2017-03-17 06:23:16 CET

For me, vlc was running fine for many months on cauldron. It was only after the update to vlc-3.0.0-0.git.6.mga6.tainted.src.rpm two days ago that that play-and-exit  began. Perhaps it is fixed in .8.mga6 (although installing that version did not fix the bug) but it is certain that I did not enable that play-and-exit. 

Thanks for finding the play-and-exit option. I looked at the All but did not find it.

Comment 4 Rémi Verschelde 2017-03-17 07:48:27 CET

I can confirm that vlc works fine for me on an up-to-date Cauldron, and play-and-exit is disabled by default. Not sure what went wrong for w unruh, let's keep this open and see if we get duplicate bug reports.

Comment 5 w unruh 2017-04-20 11:03:24 CEST

This bug can probably be closed. after the save and exit was deselected, vlc is working. I also have no idea how it got selected-- I did not do it-- but without any smoking gun, this bug report is useless.

Comment 6 Marja Van Waes 2017-04-20 11:37:43 CEST

(In reply to w unruh from comment #5)
> This bug can probably be closed. after the save and exit was deselected, vlc
> is working. I also have no idea how it got selected-- I did not do it-- but
> without any smoking gun, this bug report is useless.

Maybe just one bit that toppled over :-)

Closing as WORKDFORME, it can be reopened if needed.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => WORKSFORME
CC: (none) => marja11