VLC crashing

[bendipa1]

@UncleSpellbinder

Curious as to how you’re switching back and forth between Wayland and X11. That option was removed from the login screen a while ago.

I only know for KDE. It’s hidden away under System Settings–>Login Screen (SDDM)–>Behaviour.

@[1093i3511]

Doing a complete reinstall only due to issues with a single application is a bad habit. Might have been an appropriate way to fix a broken windows install back in the day.

On the contrary, By just having one 3rd party package (VLC) installed on a fresh system that showed the same issue it proved straight away that it wasn’t due to any conflict because of several other 3rd party packages I had already installed on my earlier effort.

Too bad that you’re not sharing the actual solution which fixed the issue. For future references, in the case another user stumbles upon the same issue, it would be nice to describe the actual steps required to address the issue.

Well the impression I’ve got in this thread suggests that no-one has had any issues with VLC on EOS, only me . So on that basis it would seem that it’s very unlikely anyone will have an issue like mine in future. All the suggestions, including the errors that I showed earlier were misleading, and virtually nothing shown on google was of any help either.

I got lucky with one post on the Videolan forum that showed a similar situation, because if I hadn’t stumbled upon it, my VLC issue would not have been resolved as it had nothing to do with conflicts, missing libraries etc, but a simple configuration within VLC itself, and it wasn’t ‘disable hardware acceleration’, which seems to be the stock answer by most on the web when VLC crashes.

[1093i3511]

No clue why, but it seems you took it personally.

@bendipa1

My VLC issue would not have been resolved as it had nothing to do with conflicts, missing libraries etc, but a simple configuration within VLC itself

Well… what should I say, I asked you to provide more context in terms of the type of media … as well as:

@1093i3511

Edit: Additionally, has you get a bunch of chain filter error: Too high level of recursion (3) errors. It also may help to reset vlc preferences, as this issue could originate in a misconfiguration of the vlc preferences. You’ll find this option via Tools → Preferences → Reset Preferences

But in the end, I’m not in the mood to make a discussion out of it.

Glad you could resolve the issue.

[thefrog]

@bendipa1

Well the impression I’ve got in this thread suggests that no-one has had any issues with VLC on EOS, only me . So on that basis it would seem that it’s very unlikely anyone will have an issue like mine in future.

So you solved an issue YOU came here to resolve and because no body else had the issue you don’t think you should share the solution?

Hmmm Something Smells here.

[bendipa1]

@MyNameIsRichard

You can restore the X11 session by installing a single package: sudo pacman -Syu plasma-x11-session

Do you know if that command will be valid once KDE go full Wayland next year, ie will it override Wayland in favour of Xwayland as is currently the position?