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Hi everyone ! First thanks a lot to the VLC team !!! Been using it for a decade at least ! I upgraded from Kubuntu 13.10 to 14.04 and noticed this issue which didn't occur before : - when seeking into a video file (happened with many of them ; I haven't figured out the common pattern yet), sound fre...

Thanks Rémi. Oh BTW, I figured out the VLC launch delay (about 1 sec or more) only occured when the proprietary nvidia drivers were enabled (under both OpenSUSE 11.4 and ArchLinux).

Oh ! You're right, xdg-screensaver doesn't inhibit the screensaver, although it can activate it and although another player managed to inhibit it (Dragon).

I guess we can definitely rule out VLC of the culprits list ?

Thanks for your reply, Rémi, yes, xdg-utils is definitely installed as well, I checked this beforehand. I don't know if it helps, but Arch Linux usually makes pretty "vanilla" builds. I remember it occured on an OpenSUSE 11.4 install too, although I double checked from the Live DVD and it ...

Hi everyone ! I'm pretty sure it shouldn't happen, but can't figure out what is wrong. I use a cutting-edge Arch Linux install (KDE 4.6.5, everything up to date, latest VLC 1.1.11, works like a charm), and noticed that VLC didn't inhibit my screensaver. For instance, Dragon Player does. It may be co...

Hi everyone ! Here's an issue I experience under both Linux/proprietary nvida drivers and a PC laptop under windows (radeon), with VLC (and, actually, also xine, mplayer). Actually, the picture is very blurry when playing a DVD (not a divx or any other file format), with the TV Out (PAL TV). I tried...