VLC wakes CPU up when paused

Bug #352549 reported by Ernie 07
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This bug affects 1 person
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
VLC media player
Unknown
Unknown
vlc (Debian)
Fix Released
Unknown
vlc (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
Unassigned

Bug Description

VLC media player 0.9.4 Grishenko
Unbuntu Release 8.10
Linux Kernel 2.6.27-11
GNOME 2.24.1

Launch VLC to play a wmv movie, then pause it. VLC continues to suck up so many cpu cycles that the power manager is tricked into believing the the system is not idle and does not perform as expected.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0.8+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.10.2
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-11-generic i686

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Ernie 07 (ernestboyd) wrote :
affects: ubuntu → vlc (Ubuntu)
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JB VideoLAN (jb-videolan) wrote :

Expected behaviour of VLC right now.

Changed in vlc (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
summary: - VLC prevents power manager from working properly when a wmv movie has
- been paused
+ VLC wakes CPU up when paused
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rusivi2 (rusivi2-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Thank you for reporting this bug.

Does this still happen in Lucid?

Changed in vlc (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
Changed in vlc:
status: New → Incomplete
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Vish (vish) wrote :

Reverting status as this is a known issue

Changed in vlc (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
status: Incomplete → Confirmed
Changed in vlc:
status: Incomplete → New
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Rémi Denis-Courmont (rdenis) wrote :

Triaged... but this is probably not going to be fixed any time soon.

Changed in vlc:
importance: Undecided → Unknown
status: New → Unknown
Benjamin Drung (bdrung)
Changed in vlc (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Triaged
Changed in vlc:
status: Unknown → New
Changed in vlc (Debian):
status: Unknown → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
Rémi Denis-Courmont (rdenis) wrote :

VLC 3.0 no longer wakes up when paused if playing audio. Updating to video-only upstream bug.

Changed in vlc:
status: New → Unknown
Changed in vlc (Debian):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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Sebastian Ramacher (s-ramacher) wrote :

Fixed in 3.0.0

Changed in vlc (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Released
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