VLC Crashes X when playing an FLV file

[Dhruv Matani]

Binary package hint: vlc

Vlc Crashes X when I try to play a FLV file - not tried with other file types though. Here is the stderr from VLC when it crashes.

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")
[0x9c1f13c] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface.
Blocked: call to setlocale(6, "")
Warning: call to srand(1307246218)
Warning: call to rand()
Blocked: call to setlocale(6, "")

(process:5921): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library.
 Using the fallback 'C' locale.
Warning: call to rand()
Warning: call to rand()
Warning: call to rand()
Warning: call to rand()
[flv @ 0xa0a4c30]Estimating duration from bitrate, this may be inaccurate
[flv @ 0xa0d0e00]Estimating duration from bitrate, this may be inaccurate
[0xa279f24] xcb_xv generic error: unknown XVideo YUV format 434d5658 (VIA)
[0x9ccea7c] signals interface error: signal 17 overriden (0x11d74c0)
[0x9ccea7c] signals interface error: /usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4(?)[(nil)]
[0xa279f24] xcb_xv generic error: X server failure
<unknown>: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :0.0.
[0xa279f24] xcb_xv generic error: X server failure

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 i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Jun 5 17:09:36 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_IN:en
 LANG=en_IN
 LC_MESSAGES=en_IN.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: vlc
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Dhruv Matani (dhruvbird)]

Also Banshee crashes when playing the FLV file (it actually plays it, but as soon as I minimize the player or try to bring another application to focus, it crashes X!!). mp3 files are played properly though both by vlc as well as banshee.

[Rémi Denis-Courmont (rdenis)]

X server crashed and hung up VLC's X connection. Not a VLC bug.

You can work around this by selecting a different video output method in the VLC preferences.

[Dhruv Matani (dhruvbird)]

Great!! Thanks a lot :-)
Changing it to X11 Video output (XCB) fixed the problem!!

[Prashant Soni (prashant8)]

X crashes when I play flv files in totem too. Specifically, the crash occurs when I move the mouse while flv file is playing. Seems to work if I do not touch the mouse.

Using Edubuntu 11.04

[Dhruv Matani (dhruvbird)]

Prashant, you are right - it also happens even if you just move the mouse.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Hey dhruvbird,

You filed this bug report against natty, but I see it's still open and
doesn't appear to have much activity recently. So, now that oneiric
is released and stable, this may be a good point for you to upgrade
and re-test if this issue is still present there.

If it's solved in the new release and you think it's worth backporting
the fix, please indicate that. Or if having the fix in the new release
is good enough, feel free to close out the bug (or let us know and we'll
close it.)

If it's not solved, leave the bug report open. I can't promise we'll
get to it (we get way more bugs filed than we can usually get to), but
your testing and feedback can help out if and when we do.

[Dhruv Matani (dhruvbird)]

The bug is fixed if I change the video output method. Maybe VLC should just set that as the default, or maybe detect on the fly rather than just crash.

[Dhruv Matani (dhruvbird)]

I know "Fix committed" isn't the right status here, but I couldn't find one that said "Fix discussed and found to be a valid one".

[Joseph Lansdowne (j49137)]

I'm experiencing this on Arch Linux (so yeah, everything's up-to-date - xorg-server 1.11.2, VLC 1.1.12). It only started happening in the last few weeks, though, but I didn't notice it soon enough for any updates to stand out in the logs. Error message is the same (searching it got me here).

[ar (arjenmeijernl)]

On my machines it is still a problem in Miro.
Ubuntu 11.10 on a Thinkpad W701.

Machine(!) crashes when playing the Google Tech Talks rather randomly.
Black screen. Mouse can be moved, but I have to do a hard reset. Sound is sometime continuing but stops later.

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Dhruv Matani, this bug was reported a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue? If so, could you please test for this with the latest development release of Ubuntu? ISO images are available from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/ .

If it remains an issue, could you please run the following command in the development release from a Terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal), as it will automatically gather and attach updated debug information to this report:

apport-collect -p xorg-server REPLACE-WITH-BUG-NUMBER

Please note, given you already have done this in a prior release, performing this on a release prior to Trusty would not be helpful.

Thank you for your understanding.

Helpful bug reporting tips:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReportingBugs

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for xorg-server (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[gronaix (2-ubuntuine-d)]

Also experiencing this Bug with VLC 2.1.4 Ricewind on Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS (3.13.0-43-generic)

[penalvch (penalvch)]

gronaix, could you please file a new report via a terminal:
ubuntu-bug xorg

Please ensure you have xdiagnose installed, and that you click the Yes button for attaching additional debugging information.

Also, please attach an example FLV file that demonstrates this problem to your new report.

When opening up the new report, please feel free to subscribe me to it.

Thank you for your understanding.

[Abhilash Roy Gollamandala (abhilashroy-g)]

Hi,

My vlc gives "Segmentation Fault" when run through terminal to access a "flv" video or will not open "vlc" when double clicked on the flv video in filesystem or when dragged and dropped into an opened vlc, the vlc window disappears.

Should I report this here or somewhere else?

Kindly please suggest.

Thank you.

P.S.: It is a pokemon xy episode downloaded from watchcartoononline (since it is more than 100mb I am not attaching it)
When trying to open using "Videos" from filesystem (The option appears when I right-click on the video and select "open with") it is working fine.

[Abhilash Roy Gollamandala (abhilashroy-g)]

I am sorry, there is no edit button, so I am posting a new comment.

The log I got on terminal:

VLC media player 2.2.1 Terry Pratchett (Weatherwax) (revision 2.2.1~trusty1)
[00000000019b1118] core libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface.
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

My ubuntu: (lsb_release -a)

No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS
Release: 14.04
Codename: trusty

Thank you.

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Abhilash Roy Gollamandala, it will help immensely if you filed a new report with Ubuntu via a terminal:
ubuntu-bug xorg

Please ensure you have the package xdiagnose installed, and that you click the Yes button for attaching additional debugging information.

Also, please feel free to subscribe me to it.

[Abhilash Roy Gollamandala (abhilashroy-g)]

Oh, okay. I already did that but didn't subscribe you (don't know how to do but I will find out). I will do it again.

Thank you.