Fedora freezes when trying to play a video

Chenchu · 04-19-2011, 07:19 AM

Hi everybody

My system (Fedora 14 2.6.35.12-88.fc14.x86_64) just freezes everytime I'm trying to play a video.
when playing videos online through firefox, it works. everything is fine.
when i'm trying to play a file from the disk, with Totem / VLC it just opens and freeze.
I get no respond from the system but the mouse pointer. Had to restart couple times because of that.

what can be the problem? thank you.

sycamorex · 04-19-2011, 07:33 AM

What kind of files are you trying to play (.avi, .mov, etc.)?
Have you tried other players (eg. mplayer)?

It's hard to say, but a few possible reasons might be:
1. not having the necessary codecs (Check the following: http://www.dnmouse.org/autoten/?f=2&t=105 )
2. Not likely, but perhaps you've got a wrong video driver installed.

Chenchu · 04-19-2011, 07:47 AM

I've tried to run the file through the shell and I got this:

GTK Warning **: Locale not supported by C library.
using the fall back 'c' locale.
Not accelerated IMDCT transform found.

and then it freeze again...

sycamorex · 04-19-2011, 07:57 AM

What video card / drivers are you using?
Have you installed VLC with yum?

Chenchu · 04-19-2011, 08:01 AM

I tried playing it with MPlayer now, same issue.

Yes, I installed VLC through yum. and I'm using the default ones, whatever Fedora installed when I Installed it yesterday.
my video card is intel on board.

Chenchu · 04-19-2011, 10:06 AM

I have tried running the same file (.avi) on another Fedora machine I have, and the output that is missing on the non working machine is:

[0x91af8fc] main libvlc: Running vlc with default interface... (some more unimportant info here)

on the non working machine, i'm missing this line. maybe I have a problem with libvlc? or does it help somehow?

Chenchu · 04-20-2011, 12:46 PM

OK - I installed I think all the GStreamer plugins possible, and I tried to run VLC through cli. This time I got the 'main libvlc' line, but my computer still freezes.
I uploaded a ss:
://img703.imageshack.us/i/20110420203621.jpg/

any idea any1?