Re: VLC strangeness

[Todd Gruhn <tgruhn2%gmail.com@localhost>]

I noticed that I have some shared-objects with names such as
.../dri/*_dri_nouveau.so
missing where do these come from? How do I get them?

Does anyone else have problems with *certain* viddeos  freezing -- especially
non-animated videos ?

On Wed, Jul 21, 2021 at 7:19 AM Todd Gruhn <tgruhn2%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>
> Actually, my biggest problem is that VLC freezes when playing certain
> movies, and at specific times. This is one of of them.
>
> Actually, all James Bond movies do this.
>
> Ironically, none of the animated features (Shrek, Cars, Croods, Ice
> Age, etc)  do this.
>
> Anyways, thanks for the info.
>
> On Wed, Jul 21, 2021 at 6:13 AM RVP <rvp%sdf.org@localhost> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 20 Jul 2021, Todd Gruhn wrote:
> >
> > > Below is a pile os messages I got while using VLC to watch a DVD.
> > >
> > > Trying to open /usr/X11R7/lib/dri/nouveau_drv_video.so
> > >       DOES nouveau_drv* need to be installed separately?
> > >
> > > [00007970554becd0] main decoder error: Timestamp conversion failed
> > > (delay 10089009, buffering 0, bound 9000000)
> > >    What is this? It repeats an aweful lot.
> > >    This particular message shows up when the DVD freezes.
> > >
> > >
> > > libvdpau_nvidia*
> > >    DOES this need installing?
> > >
> >
> > Install MesaLib, libvdpau, then try again.
> >
> > -RVP
> >