vlc crashes loading libva

[Two Point Oh]

Binary package hint: vlc

user@host:~/Videos$ vlc somefile.flv
VLC media player 1.1.9 The Luggage (revision exported)
Blocked: call to unsetenv("DBUS_ACTIVATION_ADDRESS")
Blocked: call to unsetenv("DBUS_ACTIVATION_BUS_TYPE")
[0xc8a120] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface.
Blocked: call to setlocale(6, "")
[flv @ 0x7f74c40375d0]Estimating duration from bitrate, this may be inaccurate
Warning: call to srand(1303740215)
Warning: call to rand()
Blocked: call to setlocale(6, "")

(process:2310): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library.
 Using the fallback 'C' locale.
[flv @ 0x110c410]Estimating duration from bitrate, this may be inaccurate
libva: libva version 0.31.1
Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".
libva: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva: Trying to open /usr/lib/dri/nvidia_drv_video.so
Segmentation fault

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Ubuntu 11.04
vlc: 1.1.9-1ubuntu1

VLC worked with libva for hardware video acceleration before I upgraded Maverick to Natty.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: vlc 1.1.9-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun May 1 01:49:36 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: vlc
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-04-29 (2 days ago)

[Ron Lewkowicz (blu-zee)]

libva appears to be broken in Natty. I downgraded back to the libva pacakges from 10.10 and VLC works with hardware once again.

[SPeedY (speedy-speedy)]

I can confirm that its broken in Natty ( for any kind of video media types, such as xvid or h264 ).
Surprisingly the audio playback seems to work on my machine.

Hopefully somebody changes the priority/importance of this bug to critical. So that we have the chance to get a fix soon. In the mean time I am using smplayer ( which has very limited hardware acceleration by the way ).

[Marco Giannini (marco-giannini)]

Same problem. With some video vlc crashed with all the sistem

[philtheman0901 (philtheman0901)]

When I load vlc the video gets caught up and freezes. The audio stream perfectly but the vlc application completely freezes and my mouse skips across the page causing my entire to computer to lag. It usually takes about 3 minutes to finally load system monitor and kill vlc. Movie Player, however, plays the same videos completely fine with no hang up.

[apinunt (apinunt)]

Same problem here, 2 different computers after upgrading to ubuntu 11.04 vlc freezes when playing mp3 files. I haven't tried video files.

Is this the same as Bug #772248?

[SPeedY (speedy-speedy)]

Yes its possible that its related to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vlc/+bug/772248 .

I am using vdpau as well with the proprietary nvidia driver ( while the nouveau driver is not on a acceptable level yet ). Even so the hardware acceleration is disabled / greyed out when I am starting and opening the vlc properties.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.