VLC does not play movies from HFS+ partition
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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vlc (Arch Linux) |
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Undecided
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vlc (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Binary package hint: vlc
There is a long existing bug with VLC and Linux's HFS+ driver behavior. It makes all VLC versions newer than 0.8.6 unable to play any video located on HFS+ partitions. Basically, problem is with linux kernel HFS+ driver as well as VLC itself and fix requires modifications to both. As a result, VLC recognize all files (on HFS+ volume) as folders and refuses to play any of them.
Here is one thread on Ubuntu forums about the issue
http://
And here is one on VLC forums
http://
Bug is easily reproducible, you do not need a Mac. Just follow three simple steps:
1. Make one HFS+ partition with Gparted
2. Copy some video file on it.
3. Try to play it with VLC.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Jan 3 22:44:45 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
NonfreeKernelMo
Package: vlc 1.0.2-1ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSign
SourcePackage: vlc
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-16-generic x86_64
http:// pastebin. com/f764e4f2
To give better view on a bug, I just typed 'vlc -vv' in terminal, and when VLC showed, I tried to play video. Whole output is in above pastebin.