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VLC does not display video from DVD or streaming video

Bug #1725326 reported by Glenn Brumfield on 2017-10-20

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #1721343: VLC does not display video from DVD or streaming video. Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	vlc (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

This is a duplicate of Bug #1721343 on a different 64-bit computer. This makes 3 of my PC's running Ubuntu 16.04+current updates that VLC is unable to display video, so I find it difficult to believe it is just me. By the way, the Video application that comes with Ubuntu works just fine on all 3 PC's; displays video & audio from the same sources just fine. I suspect but cannot prove that there may be a dependency issue with VLC, unless there is a newer version of VLC that isn't in the repositories yet. I know 18.04 will be out in April 2018, but I hope we can get this fixed for 16.04.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: vlc-nox 2.2.2-5ubuntu0.16.04.4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.10.0-37.41~16.04.1-generic 4.10.17
Uname: Linux 4.10.0-37-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.10
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Fri Oct 20 09:58:14 2017
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/vlc
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-10-02 (17 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20170801)
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
SHELL=/bin/bash
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en_US
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
SourcePackage: vlc
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Glenn Brumfield (brumfield-glenn) wrote on 2017-10-20:

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Glenn Brumfield (brumfield-glenn) wrote on 2017-10-21:

OK, I've figured out what's going on. My PC's have been using the Nouveau display driver (apparently one of my recent updates reset my active video driver(s) from the Nvidia proprietary driver to the default Nouveau open-source driver(s)). Once I downloaded, installed and activated the Nvidia proprietary driver(s) for my video card(s) VLC works as it should on my PC's. However, this means that there is still an incompatibility between VLC and the Nouveau open-source video driver.