Cant play videos - insta-logs out

[Falc7]

When I try and play videos, it logs out of Kubuntu and takes me back to the log in screen. I've tried with vlc and smplayer. I think its x.org resetting or something? Just wondering if anyone else has this problem or if there is a fix? (other than waiting for updates to hopefully fix it)

[Rog132]

Generic video troubleshooting



Testing a clip ( http://download.openbricks.org/sampl...5fps_1800K.MP4 ) with few players (QMPlay2 - ffmpeg, VLC - vlc, SMPlayer - mplayer). Not crashing at here but I would...


I would...

1) Check the hardware/drivers

The 'inxi' is telling the hardware&drivers

@here

:~$ inxi -G
Graphics: Card: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Barts PRO [Radeon HD 6850]
X.Org: 1.15.0 drivers: ati,radeon (unloaded: fbdev,vesa) Resolution: 1920x1080@60.0hz
GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on AMD BARTS GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 10.1.0

2) If the hardware&driver information is correct then I would check the Xorg log:

@here:

Errors:

:~$ grep 'EE' /var/log/Xorg.0.log
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
[ 19.575] Initializing built-in extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
[ 20.058] (EE) Failed to load module "fglrx" (module does not exist, 0)
[ 20.134] (EE) Failed to load module "fglrx" (module does not exist, 0)

Warnings:

:~$ grep 'WW' /var/log/Xorg.0.log
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
[ 19.571] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic" does not exist.
[ 19.571] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/" does not exist.
[ 19.571] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/" does not exist.
[ 19.571] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi" does not exist.
[ 19.571] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi" does not exist.
[ 20.058] (WW) Warning, couldn't open module fglrx
[ 20.134] (WW) Warning, couldn't open module fglrx
[ 20.154] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for modesetting
[ 20.154] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for fbdev
[ 20.166] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for vesa

Seems to be OK @ here....

3) If these seem to be OK I would try my luck with the search....

Searching with: ' vlc crash x'

- https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=116664
- https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=83664
- ...

[Falc7]

jamie@jamie-Inspiron-7520:~$ inxi -G
Graphics:  Card-1: Intel 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller 
           Card-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Chelsea LP [Radeon HD 7730M] 
           X.Org: 1.15.0 drivers: fglrx,intel Resolution: 1366x768@60.0hz 
           GLX Renderer: AMD Radeon HD 7700M Series GLX Version: 4.3.12780 - CPC 13.35.1005
jamie@jamie-Inspiron-7520:~$ grep 'EE' /var/log/Xorg.0.log
        (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
[  2774.642] Initializing built-in extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
[  2774.767] (EE) Screen 1 deleted because of no matching config section.
[  2775.451] (EE) AIGLX error: failed to open /usr/X11R6/lib64/modules/dri/fglrx_dri.so, error[/usr/X11R6/lib64/modules/dri/fglrx_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory]
[  2775.451] (EE) AIGLX error: failed to open /usr/lib64/dri/fglrx_dri.so, error[/usr/lib64/dri/fglrx_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory]
[  2775.451] (EE) AIGLX error: failed to open /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/fglrx_dri.so, error[/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/fglrx_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory]
jamie@jamie-Inspiron-7520:~$

The graphics card is correct, not sure about the errors section though.

3) If these seem to be OK I would try my luck with the search....

Searching with: ' vlc crash x'

The thing is it isn't a vlc issue, as the same thing happens with all video players including smplayer.

[Rog132]

Hmm...

jamie@jamie-Inspiron-7520:~$ inxi -G
Graphics: Card-1: Intel 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller
Card-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Chelsea LP [Radeon HD 7730M]
X.Org: 1.15.0 drivers: fglrx,intel Resolution: 1366x768@60.0hz
GLX Renderer: AMD Radeon HD 7700M Series GLX Version: 4.3.12780 - CPC 13.35.1005

Are both cards/drivers crashing ?

There is a bug report against the fglrx: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...r/+bug/1279412

It is marked as fixed with the new set of the fglrx:

- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/tr...ch/012166.html
- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/tr...ch/012167.html

New upstream release (14.3):
- [394848] - Xorg crashed 160 playing AVI video file in VLC
player or Parole player (LP: #1279412).

[Falc7]

Ah yes the update fixed it