Hi,
I have a problem with vlc, the only way i can get it works 'more or less' … is by configurate the section ‘video’ at preferences with this output:
Xvideo (xcb)
i tried other options too without any result ... the video crash or the subtitle i create with youtube-dl are not coming ...
Thanks for any idea.
https://forum.artixlinux.org/index.php/topic,1017.0.html (https://forum.artixlinux.org/index.php/topic,1017.0.html)
Downgrading to 3.0.6-12 solved my VLC problems:
$ cd /var/cache/pacman/pkg/
# pacman -U vlc-3.0.6-12-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
I added this line to /etc/pacman.conf
IgnorePkg = vlc
# pacman -Syu
...
:: Starting full system upgrade...
warning: vlc: ignoring package upgrade (3.0.6-12 => 3.0.7.1-1)
...
Try it again if a newer version appears by removing the IgnorePkg, and if it still doesn't work then go back to the cached version for a while longer. Although if you want to debug and fix the current version then don't let me stop you. :)
After years of stability over the last year or 2 VLC has got unstable since going qt5
you can also try SMplayer some have success with it
vlc seems to be still gone to shit.. performs very badly in a Sparkylinux install I have (Debian Testing)
in Artix it shows a black screen when running an iso (DVD)image .
Works fine in my Salix (Slackware 14.2) install which has about 2-3 year old software by now
Would it be possible to compile/build a 2x version of vlc on Artix?
No. If you want 2.x version of vlc, build it just locally. Or use mpv instead
No, only latest versions. You could use the AUR to search for older PKGBUILDs. But personally, after mpv I've forgotten everything else...
VLC is playing DVD's for me OK - but to play pre recorded bought ones I needed to install the optional dependency "libdvdcss" for it to work. Home recorded DVD's played without this package.
I did recently find another VLC problem - when I used the open multiple files menu option and navigated to a folder containing nearly a 1000 jpg's and avi's it didn't display anything at all. Folders with fewer files in were OK. I quite like VLC as it has a lot of features, plus I'm vaguely familiar with how to use them. ;D
Seems I had an old Slackware package from Alienbob pretty close to starting.
Now none of the alternatives work with my isos, (some DVD's ripped with K9Copy years ago if not a decade). Errors are: black screen in vlc, very bad sound in Smplayer, garbled video in (parole or mpv, can't remember
Insult to injury now the sound disappeared too.. :P booting into Salix (Slackware 14.2) for this atm. No problem.