VLC problem openSUSE 11.4 /w GNOME

Dragon_Bard · May 7, 2011, 2:33pm

Hello,

I have problem with VLC player. The problem, from the image below, appears whenever I open video file. I click Ok, and a everything is ok, until I jump to another time sequence, when sound and subtitles disappear.
http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/3186/problemvh.png](http://img42.imageshack.us/i/problemvh.png/)

Terminal log:

VLC media player 1.1.8 The Luggage (revision exported)
Blocked: call to unsetenv(“DBUS_ACTIVATION_ADDRESS”)
Blocked: call to unsetenv(“DBUS_ACTIVATION_BUS_TYPE”)
[0x6090c0] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use ‘cvlc’ to use vlc without interface.
Blocked: call to setlocale(6, “”)
Warning: call to srand(1304761011)
Warning: call to rand()
Blocked: call to setlocale(6, “”)

(process:10752): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library.
Using the fallback ‘C’ locale.
[0x634a90] signals interface error: signal 17 overriden (0x7f912d678200)
[0x634a90] signals interface error: /usr/lib64/libQtCore.so.4(?)(nil)]
[0x37a65b0] xcb_xv generic error: unknown XVideo YUV format 4745504d (MPEG)
[0x37a65b0] xcb_xv generic error: unknown XVideo YUV format 4745504d (MPEG)
[0x37a65b0] xcb_xv generic error: unknown XVideo YUV format 4745504d (MPEG)
[0x37a65b0] xcb_xv generic error: unknown XVideo YUV format 4745504d (MPEG)
[0x37a65b0] xcb_xv generic error: unknown XVideo YUV format 4745504d (MPEG)
[0x634a90] signals interface error: signal 17 overriden (0x7f912d678200)
[0x634a90] signals interface error: /usr/lib64/libQtCore.so.4(?)(nil)]

Can you help me to solve this problem?

Bard

stamostolias · May 7, 2011, 4:41pm

Could you give us the features of your graphics card and drivers who you use?

ketheriel · May 7, 2011, 6:05pm

Install the proprietary driver for your graphics adapter.

Dragon_Bard · May 7, 2011, 6:33pm

The graphic card is integrated VIA VT3108 K8M800
xorg-x11-driver-video-unichrome is currently installed.
Any suggestions?

martin_helm · May 7, 2011, 7:00pm

Dragon Bard wrote:

>
> The graphic card is integrated VIA VT3108 K8M800
> xorg-x11-driver-video-unichrome is currently installed.
> Any suggestions?
>
I would give the openchrome driver a try (I had problems after 11.4 install
with video on an older laptop with via chrome 9 graphics a few weeks ago,
which was solved by switching the driver from unichrome to openchrome).
I cannot guarantee that it works for you, you have to try it, it is probably
not exactly the same hardware, I remember it was K8M8xx, but I cannot check
if it was exactly K8M800, since this was not my laptop).
In case you want to test it you will need to add this repository
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/X11:/Drivers:/Video/openSUSE_11.4

Dragon_Bard · May 8, 2011, 5:05pm

Alright. I have installed openchrome.
Should I remove unichrome, or attempt any other operation?
Should I adjust any setting?
Any clues?

martin_helm · May 8, 2011, 5:16pm

Dragon Bard wrote:

>
> Alright. I have installed openchrome.
> Should I remove unichrome, or attempt any other operation?
> Should I adjust any setting?
> Any clues?
>
Remove unichrome. After that first try without any settings (if you already
have a xorg.conf file in /etc/X11 from somewhere while you made your earlier
tests - remove it or rename it).
Your xserver should now automatically use the openchrome driver (instead of
unichrome or vesa) after reboot or if you don’t want to reboot change to
“init 3” and then to “init 5” as root.
If your xserver works, open a terminal and run the command xvinfo to see if
hardware acceleration for video works.
If something is unclear from what I wrote, simply ask and I will try to
clarify.

Dragon_Bard · May 15, 2011, 11:01pm

I don’t have xorg.conf, but I have xorg.conf.install
Are these two the same?
Should it be removed or renamed, and if it should be renamed, how should it be called?

robin_listas · May 15, 2011, 11:20pm

On 2011-05-15 23:06, Dragon Bard wrote:
>
> I don’t have xorg.conf, but I have xorg.conf.install
> Are these two the same?
> Should it be removed or renamed, and if it should be renamed, how
> should it be called?

No, no, & no.

–
Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” at Telcontar)

Dragon_Bard · May 15, 2011, 11:58pm

Right.
I have typed xvinfo in terminal, and I have got this:

X-Video Extension version 2.2
screen #0
  Adaptor #0: "XV_SWOV"
    number of ports: 1
    port base: 62
    operations supported: PutImage 
    supported visuals:
      depth 24, visualID 0x21
    number of attributes: 6
      "XV_COLORKEY" (range 0 to 16777215)
              client settable attribute
              client gettable attribute (current value is 2081)
      "XV_BRIGHTNESS" (range 0 to 10000)
              client settable attribute
              client gettable attribute (current value is 5000)
      "XV_CONTRAST" (range 0 to 20000)
              client settable attribute
              client gettable attribute (current value is 10000)
      "XV_SATURATION" (range 0 to 20000)
              client settable attribute
              client gettable attribute (current value is 10000)
      "XV_HUE" (range -180 to 180)
              client settable attribute
              client gettable attribute (current value is 0)
      "XV_AUTOPAINT_COLORKEY" (range 0 to 1)
              client settable attribute
              client gettable attribute (current value is 1)
    maximum XvImage size: 1920 x 1200
    Number of image formats: 6
      id: 0x32595559 (YUY2)
        guid: 59555932-0000-0010-8000-00aa00389b71
        bits per pixel: 16
        number of planes: 1
        type: YUV (packed)
      id: 0x32315659 (YV12)
        guid: 59563132-0000-0010-8000-00aa00389b71
        bits per pixel: 12
        number of planes: 3
        type: YUV (planar)
      id: 0x434d5658 (XVMC)
        guid: 56494100-0000-0010-8000-00aa00389b71
        bits per pixel: 12
        number of planes: 1
        type: YUV (planar)
      id: 0x35315652 (RV15)
        guid: 52563135-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
        bits per pixel: 16
        number of planes: 1
        type: RGB (packed)
        depth: 15
        red, green, blue masks: 0x7c00, 0x3e0, 0x1f
      id: 0x36315652 (RV16)
        guid: 52563136-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
        bits per pixel: 16
        number of planes: 1
        type: RGB (packed)
        depth: 16
        red, green, blue masks: 0xf800, 0x7e0, 0x1f
      id: 0x32335652 (RV32)
        guid: 52563332-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
        bits per pixel: 32
        number of planes: 1
        type: RGB (packed)
        depth: 24
        red, green, blue masks: 0xff0000, 0xff00, 0xff

Does this mean that video acceleration works?
VLC seem to be working properly now.
Should I add any repo for openchrome updating?

martin_helm · May 16, 2011, 12:11am

Dragon Bard wrote:

> Right.
> I have typed xvinfo in terminal, and I have got this:
>
<snip>
>
> Does this mean that video acceleration works?
Yes that means you have xv video acceleration.

> VLC seem to be working properly now.
Glad to hear that.

> Should I add any repo for openchrome updating?
>
You already added the repo for openchrome so nothing further to do.

Dragon_Bard · May 27, 2011, 7:02pm

Still, sound and sight are getting out of sync.
What should I do?

DenverD · May 27, 2011, 7:25pm

On 05/27/2011 07:06 PM, Dragon Bard wrote:
>
> Still, sound and sight are getting out of sync.
> What should I do?

the error in your initial post is shocking just how small is your
screen…640x352 is the max resolution???

tell us more about your hardware, please…is it a rack mounted server
or a hand held?

what type and how fast is your CPU?

how much RAM do you have?

how much dedicated video RAM do you have (or is it “shared”–that is
taken away from normal RAM?)

what might you also have going on in the background when sight/sound
gets out of sync (like, wi-fi, bluetooth, uploads, downloads, torrents,
compiles, desktop indexing, etc etc etc)

–
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[NNTP via openSUSE 11.4 [2.6.37.6-0.5] + KDE 4.6.0 + Thunderbird 3.1.10]
Dual booting with Sluggish Loser7 on Acer Aspire One D255

martin_helm · May 27, 2011, 7:38pm

DenverD wrote:

> the error in your initial post is shocking just how small is your
> screen…640x352 is the max resolution???
>
This was not the screen resolution but the max. resolution supported for
video due to an insufficient driver.
His original graphics card problem is solved with the correct driver
(openchrome with video acceleration) this is now a second different part of
the problem to solve the out of sync between video and audio. One step after
the other.

martin_helm · May 27, 2011, 7:44pm

Dragon Bard wrote:

>
> Still, sound and sight are getting out of sync.
> What should I do?
>
Can you check if that happens also with other video players (like mplayer)
and does it somehow depend on the type of video file? Is it always the same
for all kind of video files?

maico_suse · June 11, 2011, 2:49am

Do you have this package installed?

vlc-aout-pulse

Try to install it and tell us what happens.

Tchau!