The VLC media player runs into a few issues when I am playing videos on it.

  1. The fullscreen interface does not always 'show up' when I hover the pointer over the video.
  2. When I tried to play a video I made using a smartphone, the video freezes. However, the audio component of the video runs as expected (while the video is frozen). Trying to run this particular video crashes VLC as well.
  3. Clicking on 'restart playback from where I left off' did not work when I was running a DVD.
  4. The video has a slight stutter when playing DVDs (genuine).

Thanks, in advance, for all of your help! 😁

  1. Please run VLC from a terminal and when it crashes it might show important log information that could help diagnose.

This is what I get when I try to run that video I made using the smartphone camera. 😰

~ $ vlc
VLC media player 3.0.6 Vetinari (revision 3.0.6-0-g5803e85f73)
[0000000000f53570] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface.
[0000000000fbba90] main playlist: playlist is empty
libva info: VA-API version 1.4.0
libva info: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib64/dri/i965_drv_video.so
libva info: va_openDriver() returns -1
[00007f81780017c0] glconv_vaapi_x11 gl error: vaInitialize: unknown libva error
libva info: VA-API version 1.4.0
libva info: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib64/dri/i965_drv_video.so
libva info: va_openDriver() returns -1
[00007f81780017c0] glconv_vaapi_drm gl error: vaInitialize: unknown libva error
libva info: VA-API version 1.4.0
libva info: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib64/dri/i965_drv_video.so
libva info: va_openDriver() returns -1
[00007f81780017c0] glconv_vaapi_drm gl error: vaInitialize: unknown libva error
Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_va_gl.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
[00007f8188c0be20] avcodec decoder error: more than 5 seconds of late video -> dropping frame (computer too slow ?)
[00007f8188c0be20] avcodec decoder error: more than 5 seconds of late video -> dropping frame (computer too slow ?)
[00007f8188c0be20] avcodec decoder error: more than 5 seconds of late video -> dropping frame (computer too slow ?)
[00007f8188c0be20] avcodec decoder error: more than 5 seconds of late video -> dropping frame (computer too slow ?)
[00007f8188c0be20] avcodec decoder error: more than 5 seconds of late video -> dropping frame (computer too slow ?)
QObject::~QObject: Timers cannot be stopped from another thread

    dlalinsp Looks like your phone may have skewed the video/audio and the decoder is having issues reading it. Other videos play OK?

      Yeah! However, that is the only video that I have on my laptop that I 'made' using the smartphone. The other videos work splendidly (including 'internet' videos that were downloaded on to the phone) on VLC. What do you mean by my 'phone may have skewed the audio/video'? I am not very well versed in such technicalities. 😅 Is there any chance of fixing this? I am sorry for the late reply, by the way!

      The video might not have been ended correctly and the index might be out. Try recording another video on your phone to test.

      4 months later

      this is what I get when i try to play a mkv video on vlc, how can this be solved?
      [0000000001d2be00] main playlist: playlist is empty
      [0000000001f844f0] main audio output error: too low audio sample frequency (0)
      [00007fb5f190b0f0] main decoder error: failed to create audio output
      [0000000001f844f0] vlcpulse audio output error: digital pass-through stream connection failure: Not supported
      [0000000001f844f0] main audio output error: module not functional
      [00007fb5f190b0f0] main decoder error: failed to create audio output
      libva info: VA-API version 1.4.0
      libva info: va_getDriverName() returns 0
      libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib64/dri/nouveau_drv_video.so
      libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_1_4
      libva info: va_openDriver() returns 0
      [00007fb5d40017c0] glconv_vaapi_x11 gl error: vaDeriveImage: invalid VASurfaceID
      [00007fb5d800aca0] main video output error: video output creation failed
      [00007fb5f1895b30] main decoder error: failed to create video output
      [00007fb5f1895b30] avcodec decoder: Using G3DVL VDPAU Driver Shared Library version 1.0 for hardware decoding
      [h264 @ 0x7fb5f0c14700] Failed setup for format vdpau: hwaccel initialisation returned error.
      [00007fb5f1895b30] avcodec decoder error: existing hardware acceleration cannot be reused
      Bus error

      Never mind, after installing the hardware drivers(nvidia) everything is running