VLC under Wayland causes system freezes in fullscreen mode
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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VLC media player |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
vlc (Debian) |
Fix Released
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Unknown
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vlc (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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High
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Ubuntu version: 17.10 (most recent updates as of October 3rd)
vlc version: 2.2.6-6
Whan I expect to happen: When playing a video in vlc and switching to fullscreen mode everything should work fine. Also when changing to a different position of a movie in fullscreen I expect the player to just switch to that position.
What actually happens: It seems to depend a little on the file type of the video, mostly I get problems when going to fullscreen mode and then switching to a different position with the playback position bar. With some videos it was even enough to just open the fullscreen mode. The video freezes just displaying a frame while the audio keeps playing. The computer does not react any more to mouse or keyboard input, I have to perform a hard reboot.
This problem only appears under the Wayland session, in the Xorg session everything works fine as expected.
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ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-09-30 (2 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Alpha amd64 (20170926)
Package: vlc 2.2.6-6
PackageArchitec
ProcVersionSign
Tags: artful wayland-session
Uname: Linux 4.13.0-12-generic x86_64
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo vboxusers
_MarkForUpload: True
Changed in vlc (Debian): | |
status: | Unknown → Fix Committed |
affects: | wayland (Ubuntu) → gnome-shell (Ubuntu) |
Changed in vlc (Debian): | |
status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
no longer affects: | gnome-shell (Ubuntu) |
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