Bug 712656

Summary: VLC Media Player locks up Gnome Desktop
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Andrew Kornak <akornak>
Component: gnome-buildAssignee: Orphan Owner <extras-orphan>
Status: CLOSED CANTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 14CC: elad, extras-orphan
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Description Andrew Kornak 2011-06-12 07:59:56 UTC
Created attachment 504298 [details]
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Description of problem:
Viewing certain videos in vlc will lock up the computer. This is a very serious problem which I hope will not be ignored due to the fact that I am using an rpmfusion build of vlc. Also, it would be nice if the desktop had a pre-emptive key stroke combination like ctrl-alt-del or power button click or something so that a computer lock up could be preempted and the process killed in the event another process does this in the future. I included a video fragment which locks up my computer every time I play it. I hope this is taken pretty seriously. I have noticed in Fedora 14 this happening more often. By the way, the other video players like mplayer will play the file without locking up the system. 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
vlc-1.1.9-1.fc14.i686, xvidcore-1.2.2-2.fc14.i686, kernel-2.6.35.13-92.fc14.i686

How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1. load included video fragment
2. do not fix video when it asks to
3. massive processor load increase and then system locks up.
  
Actual results:
System will be unusable without reboot

Expected results:
Video plays without error or excessive process load.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Elad Alfassa 2011-06-12 12:09:06 UTC
VLC is not available in fedora due to patent issues, see https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ForbiddenItems

You probably got it from a 3rd party repository, eg. rpmfusion.
Please report this bug to rpmfusion in their bug tracker at http://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org or to VLC upstream.

Sorry.



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