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PostPosted: Sun May 25, 2014 4:03 am    Post subject: vlc long mp4s will not play Reply with quote

Hello

It's been a long time since I've had a problem with my Linux box, today, I installed vlc to watch movies (not pirated mind you), and it appears that certain mp4s of long lengths cannot be played (i.e., a 8MB 50s AAC mp4 will play fine, however a 1.2G movie length film will not). I initially compiled vlc with GRAPHITE flags but I have recompiled it in O3, O2, O1 as well as no opts, and the same problem occurs. In addition to this, conky shows vlc stressing the CPU at 100% of 1 core. It will become completely irresponsive and not respond to close command, ^C, nor fuser. It can only be killed when I issue "kill -9 $PID".

vlc -v ~/Desktop/Snatch*/Snatch*.mp4:
Code:
VLC media player 2.0.7 Twoflower (revision 2.0.6-54-g7dd7e4d)
[0x1016108] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface.
[0x10d9da8] qt4 interface error: Unable to load extensions module
[0x7ff874000c88] mp4 stream warning: unknown box type btrt (incompletely loaded)
[0x7ff874000f58] mp4 demux warning: CTTS table
[0x7ff8763298c8] avcodec decoder warning: threaded frame decoding is not compatible with ffmpeg-hw, disabled
[0x7ff87639e408] faad decoder warning: decoded zero sample
[0x7ff86d3d1a08] alsa audio output warning: device cannot be paused



Normal playback for a 250M, 1hour movie:

Code:

vlc build:[0xc0d108] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface.
[0xcd0b98] qt4 interface error: Unable to load extensions module
[0x7f535c004108] mp4 stream warning: unknown box type btrt (incompletely loaded)
[0x7f535c004108] mp4 stream warning: unknown box type gsst (incompletely loaded)
[0x7f535c004108] mp4 stream warning: unknown box type gstd (incompletely loaded)
[0x7f535c004108] mp4 stream warning: unknown box type gssd (incompletely loaded)
[0x7f535c004108] mp4 stream warning: unknown box type gspu (incompletely loaded)
[0x7f535c004108] mp4 stream warning: unknown box type gspm (incompletely loaded)
[0x7f535c004108] mp4 stream warning: unknown box type gshh (incompletely loaded)
[0x7f535c001ff8] mp4 demux warning: elst box found
[0x7f535ce58568] avcodec decoder warning: threaded frame decoding is not compatible with ffmpeg-hw, disabled
[0x7f535ce55b48] faad decoder warning: decoded zero sample
[0x7f5344006ac8] alsa audio output warning: device cannot be paused


vlc build:
Code:

     Installed versions:  2.0.7(10:57:01 AM 04/05/2014)(X a52 aac alsa avcodec avformat cdda dbus dts dvbpsi dvd encode ffmpeg flac gcrypt libnotify mmx mp3 mpeg ncurses ogg opengl png postproc qt4 sdl sse svg swscale truetype udev vaapi vorbis x264 xcb xml xv -aalib -altivec -atmo -audioqueue -avahi -bidi -bluray -cddb -dc1394 -debug -dirac -direct2d -directfb -directx -dshow -dvb -dxva2 -egl -fbosd -fluidsynth -fontconfig -gme -gnome -gnutls -growl -httpd -ieee1394 -ios-vout -jack -kate -kde -libass -libcaca -libproxy -libsamplerate -libtar -libtiger -linsys -lirc -live -lua -macosx -macosx-audio -macosx-dialog-provider -macosx-eyetv -macosx-qtkit -macosx-quartztext -macosx-vout -matroska -media-library -modplug -mtp -musepack -neon -omxil -optimisememory -opus -oss -portaudio -projectm -pulseaudio -pvr -rtsp -run-as-root -samba -schroedinger -sdl-image -shine -shout -sid -skins -speex -sqlite -switcher -taglib -theora -twolame -upnp -v4l -vcdx -vlm -waveout -wingdi -wma-fixed -xosd -zvbi ELIBC="glibc")


Stranger yet, vlc will play the video if I add it to a playlist with another VIDEO (.avi, wmv, other .mp4, etc., but not audio). I will run some more tests with vlc -vv later.

Thank you :)
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PostPosted: Mon May 26, 2014 2:49 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Problem is still present in VLC 2.1.4. :/
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PostPosted: Mon May 26, 2014 12:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It appears more your mp4 file have a problem, i have no such warning when playing one with vlc about mp4 stream, mp4 demux, avcodec or faad like you.
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PostPosted: Sun Jun 08, 2014 1:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's strange that your video will work when added into a playlist with other videos.

If you put the problem video as the first video in the playlist, will it play? Or are you required to play a video first, and then your problem video will play?
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 13, 2014 2:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

fresherthanever wrote:
[...] GRAPHITE flags but I have recompiled it in O3 [...]


It is sufficient to have compiled one of its dependencies or dependencies of dependencies with an unfortunate optimization to cause this problem; been there done that, a dependency of a dependency of my browser was built with an optimization too much which broke scrolling is half of my tabs. Other than that; when you are sure it is not due to over optimization, please report this upstream as well as provide them a sample file if possible (if it's just one copyrighted movie, I guess not; but, they might be able to help you with further debugging to obtain more information).
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