Hi I am using Fedora 20 (64 bit)and for two months I am having this odd problem with VLC player.

When I play any Video on VLC player can hear the sound but not the video sometimes if I do a restart it works but now for two days even that is not working.

How can I go about fixing or diagnosing the problem

Thanks and Regards

Try running vlc from a terminal when you attempt to play a video. You may see some useful error messages in the terminal window.
jdk

Hi jdkaye, thanks was wondering who to get some log info, thanks

Hi On the command line I am getting message as below and looks like a bug of some sort of

VLC media player 2.1.5 Rincewind (revision 2.1.4-49-gdab6cb5)
[0x241a118] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface.
Fontconfig warning: FcPattern object size does not accept value "0"
Fontconfig warning: FcPattern object size does not accept value "0"
Fontconfig warning: FcPattern object size does not accept value "0"
Fontconfig warning: FcPattern object size does not accept value "0"
[0x7f9854001248] main vout display error: Failed to resize display

But different formates give slightly different messages as well

Regards

Try following the suggestion of using the cvlc command instead of vlc.
jdk

open terminal..type su -c 'yum install libpx' and press enter..restart your system and play any video..

Hi Shandilya, thanks for the reply but I am unable to find this library in any of the repositories. For one thing I have been playing Videos for a while and this only started about few weeks back!

Hi guys, I just removed VLC and reinstalled looks like it did the trick, but how long with will last? What I can think of is could be some update which would have screwed up the system and by reinstalling reset what ever was done wrong by new update. Hope this would be a permanent one

if there's h264 codecs not supported error then click on this link

https://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/que...-h264-decoder/

Hi though reinstalling VLC helped for awhile the error is back and going through google and more debuging found below warning

[0x7f3e20001248] main vout display warning: VoutDisplayEvent 'pictures invalid'
[0x7f3e20001248] main vout display error: Failed to resize display
Fontconfig warning: FcPattern object size does not accept value "0"
Fontconfig warning: FcPattern object size does not accept value "0"
[0x7f3e20001248] main vout display warning: VoutDisplayEvent 'pictures invalid'
[0x7f3e20001248] main vout display warning: VoutDisplayEvent 'pictures invalid'
[0x7f3e20001248] main vout display error: Failed to resize display
[0x1093118] pulse audio output warning: starting late (-14412 us)
[0x7f3e28001ea8] main video output warning: picture is too late to be displayed (missing 29 ms)

Found the answer in a forum "by changing out put to X11" took care of the matter (hope this time solution is permanent ).

http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/inde...t-2116829.html

Would be nice to know why though!

Best Regards