Bug 4489

Summary:	vlc with default config freezes if one drags&drops a file from the playlist to itself
Product:	Fedora	Reporter:	Shlomi Fish <shlomif>
Component:	vlc	Assignee:	Nicolas Chauvet <kwizart>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	major
Priority:	P1
Version:	25
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	GNU/Linux
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Description Shlomi Fish 2017-03-24 09:26:05 CET

With:

```
[root@localhost ~]# dnf update --enablerepo=rpmfusion-free-updates-testing --refresh
Dependencies resolved.
Nothing to do.
Complete!
[root@localhost ~]# rpm -q vlc
vlc-3.0.0-0.16.fc25.x86_64
[root@localhost ~]# 
```

vlc as my user after moving away ~/.config/vlc (or while keeping it) freezes / hangs after I drag and drop two or more files to the playlist and then drag an item in the playlist down. Perhaps updating vlc to a later upstream version will fix it.

BTW, the component description on this bugzilla reads «Multi-platform MPEG, DVD, and DivX player» but VLC can play many more formats. Can it be revised?

Comment 1 Nicolas Chauvet 2017-03-24 11:28:57 CET

Which graphical server are you using Xorg or Wayland ?
The latter doesn't work very well with vlc at this step.
You need to use vlc --no-embedded-video to have it barely working under wayland.

Comment 2 Shlomi Fish 2017-03-24 12:26:39 CET

(In reply to Nicolas Chauvet from comment #1)
> Which graphical server are you using Xorg or Wayland ?

I'm using Xorg with Xfce started using lightdm. Thanks for returning to me.

> The latter doesn't work very well with vlc at this step.
> You need to use vlc --no-embedded-video to have it barely working under
> wayland.

Comment 3 Shlomi Fish 2017-03-24 12:48:02 CET

I should note that after build the rpm-fusion's vlc package's master branch using "rfpkg clone free/vlc" and "rfpkg local" and installing these packages using rpm, and restarting vlc, the problem appears to be fixed . Perhaps an upgrade of the fc25 pkg is in order as well.

Comment 4 Nicolas Chauvet 2017-06-01 16:17:18 CEST

Please consider using the version in rpmfusion-free-updates-testing
You should have a 20170601 version soon.
I consider the problem fixed, please re-open if it's not the case.