Bug 1214242

Summary:	Problem with VLC Media Player v3.0.18 Vetinari
Product:	[openSUSE] PUBLIC SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP5	Reporter:	Eric Davanture <eric.davanture>
Component:	Sound	Assignee:	Scott Bahling <sbahling>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	eric.davanture, sbahling
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	64bit
OS:	SLED 15
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Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
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Description Eric Davanture 2023-08-14 09:13:55 UTC

Greetings,
Since SLED 15 SP5, VLC Media Player v3.0.18 Vetinari is offered from YaST2 and works fine. Thanks a lot.
Nevertheless, I have a first .mp4 video killing VLC until next SLED reboot or kill -9.

You can find the video here: https://vimeo.com/93003441

The video is displayed correctly in Firefox but when downloaded on the hard disk and played with VLC, it just hanging VLC until next SLED reboot or kill -9.

Is there any VLC update available to avoid having this limitation on some .mp4 video files ?
Thanks a lot by now for your time and help.
Have a nice and safe day.
Eric

Comment 1 Takashi Iwai 2023-08-18 15:18:35 UTC

I thought VLC isn't provided via SLE channel.  I guess you installed from the 3rd party repo?

VLC with the suggested URL works fine on my Leap 15.5 machine.  Maybe you need to install some 3rd party codecs from Packman.

Comment 2 Eric Davanture 2023-08-18 17:24:12 UTC

Greetings Takashi,
Thanks a lot for your answer.
You are right, VLC is not provided via SLE channel and SuSE do not support it also.
VLC I use comes from this repository that I reach from YaST2: SUSE-PackageHub-15-SP5-Backports-Pool
URL: https://updates.suse.com/SUSE/Backports/SLE-15-SP5_x86_64/standard?Z3YnILKwLx8R4rnKXXPUgZ8wu2XkGTxnOYjoeNeQn1aMvNj7a2LsWxWcbBNUG0JOAwqvOiyR0q_MZ7WOhezwI2EjXt5DnQwMtzzbbvFPahXCxLxyTho8kpj8hOMYzemX6cL2vZ17Jd0

Is there any place (repo.) where I should go to download the same VLC version (with the codecs) as you have in order to fix my problem ?

Thanks again for your time and support.
Have a nice and safe evening.
Eric

Comment 3 Takashi Iwai 2023-08-21 08:45:23 UTC

(In reply to Eric Davanture from comment #2)
> VLC I use comes from this repository that I reach from YaST2:
> SUSE-PackageHub-15-SP5-Backports-Pool

Thanks, now it's clerarer; it's the one in PackageHub.

> Is there any place (repo.) where I should go to download the same VLC
> version (with the codecs) as you have in order to fix my problem ?

It's quite possible that you need a specific codec driver / library.

As an unofficial one distributing the downstream packages, you can use the one from Packman, and that's what I checked by myself.

Or just installing openh264 might things working.  But I'm not sure how vlc on PackageHub is built.  Adding Scott to Cc for further insights.

Comment 4 Eric Davanture 2023-08-21 12:43:06 UTC

Greetings Takashi,
Thanks for your answer.
I fully agree with you that vlc on PackageHub should be investigated since I have a problem when install it on SLED 15 SP5.
Do you know the videolan repo. (i.e.: http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/SuSE/) ?
I see they have everything:
15.4/                                              14-Aug-2023 17:40                   -
15.5/                                              18-Aug-2023 18:53                   -
Leap_15.0/                                         06-Oct-2020 14:10                   -
Leap_15.1/                                         15-Feb-2022 11:10                   -
SLE11/                                             05-Jun-2020 07:34                   -
SLE12/                                             18-Aug-2023 19:35                   -
SLE15/                                             14-Aug-2023 16:41                   -
SLE15SP2/                                          14-Aug-2023 16:53                   -
SLEap_15.3/                                        14-Aug-2023 19:30                   -
Tumbleweed/                                        14-Aug-2023 21:37                   -

Thanks for your support and Scott's support.
Have a nice and safe day.
Eric