I have recently installed vlc on my box including the required codecs from the plf repository, however when I try to play a video file, it just closes down no warning nothing.


Note: the files are located on a separate box running ubuntu, but I dont think the problem is located there becose when i try to play mp3 files it works with no problems at all, this only happens when I try to play video files.

I am running mandriva 2009.0 pwp

Run VLC from a terminal and post any error messages it displays when it shuts down.

Before I open a video file:
VLC media player 0.9.3 Grishenko
[00000001] main libvlc debug: VLC media player - version 0.9.3 Grishenko - (c) 1996-2008 the VideoLAN team
[00000001] main libvlc debug: libvlc was configured with ./configure '--build=i586-mandriva-linux-gnu' '--prefix=/usr' '--exec-prefix=/usr' '--bindir=/usr/bin' '--sbindir=/usr/sbin' '--sysconfdir=/etc' '--datadir=/usr/share' '--includedir=/usr/include' '--libdir=/usr/lib' '--libexecdir=/usr/lib' '--localstatedir=/var' '--sharedstatedir=/usr/com' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--x-includes=/usr/include' '--x-libraries=/usr/lib' '--enable-release' '--enable-pvr' '--enable-bonjour' '--enable-smb' '--enable-mozilla' '--enable-ncurses' '--enable-lirc' '--enable-x11' '--enable-xvideo' '--enable-fb' '--disable-mga' '--enable-aa' '--enable-sdl' '--enable-ggi' '--enable-svgalib' '--enable-xosd' '--enable-mad' '--enable-vorbis' '--enable-ogg' '--enable-theora' '--enable-speex' '--enable-flac' '--enable-mkv' '--enable-dv' '--enable-dvbpsi' '--enable-dvb' '--enable-pulse' '--enable-esd' '--enable-jack' '--enable-alsa' '--enable-arts' '--enable-libmpeg2' '--enable-faad' '--enable-dca' '--enable-live555' '--with-live555-tree=/usr/lib/live' '--enable-v4l' '--enable-gnutls' '--disable-rpath' '--enable-vcdx' '--enable-cddax' '--enable-libcddb' '--enable-x264' '--enable-loader' '--enable-twolame' 'build_alias=i586-mandriva-linux-gnu' 'CFLAGS=-O2 -g -pipe -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -fomit-frame-pointer -march=i586 -mtune=generic -fasynchronous-unwind-tables' 'LDFLAGS= -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,--no-undefined' 'CPPFLAGS= -DOJI -DMOZ_X11 -I/usr/include/ebml -I/usr/include/speex' 'CXXFLAGS=-O2 -g -pipe -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -fomit-frame-pointer -march=i586 -mtune=generic -fasynchronous-unwind-tables'
[00000001] main libvlc debug: translation test: code is "C"
[00000001] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface.


After file opening here is the rest of the output

QPainter::begin: Paint device returned engine == 0, type: 1
QPainter::begin: Paint device returned engine == 0, type: 1
ALSA lib pcm_pulse.c:696pulse_hw_params) PulseAudio: Unsupported format FLOAT_LE

[????????] x11 video output error: X11 request 141.19 failed with error code 11:
BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)
X Error of failed request: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)
Major opcode of failed request: 141 (XVideo)
Minor opcode of failed request: 19 ()
Serial number of failed request: 85
Current serial number in output stream: 86
[yanick@localhost ~]$


I hope this helps

No one has face this probleme before on here?? I searched a few other forums aslo, and there were 2 people had the exact same problem, but the thread was never solved, I hope its not going to be the case for me on here.

I would try to look into the vlc options. Try changing the video output to or from X11 video to something else (opengl or wharever there's available).

Spot on, thanks a lot, it worked. The video output was actually on "default", and I changed it "X11 video output" and now it works.
Thread solved and can be closed if neccessary...
Thanks again

Thanx, it worked for me also... the problem was same..