VLC 2.0.1 isn't working

[GilDawson]

This problem started when I downloaded and installed Version 2.0.1 Twoflower (Intel 64bit). It did not happen when we were using an older VLC version, before I upgraded a month or so ago. It happens on various DVDs. (I've tried at least three now.) It does not happen with DVD Player Version 5.2. It happens on two machines:

1. MacBook Pro 2.53 GHz Intel Core Duo 4GB 1067 MHz DDR3 memory running MacOS 10.6.8.

2. Mac Mini 1.55 GHz Intel Core Duo 2GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM memory running MacOS 10.6.8.

What happens:

1. I "magnetize" the DVD into a folder. (I do this to get past any media artifacts before we watch the show. I will delete the folder after we've watched the show.)

2. I launch VLC Player 2.0.1 then File -> Open File... and navigate to the folder.

3. The DVD's main menu comes up, but nowhere I click on it will start the show. Some clicks will have an effect on the screen (like marking a menu item) but none of the clicks will go to any of the submenus nor start the movie.

4. I pull down from Playback -> Title -> and select the Title that has the longest time entry (usually Title 1, over an hour).

5. VLC displays the Spinning Rainbow Pizza of Death for a few minutes, then reverts to the arrow cursor, all the while showing the DVD's menu. Then nothing more. I can click all over the menu and nothing happens. Even the control bar at the bottom no longer appears when I move the mouse. Boo.

6. We give up and switch to DVD Player. It plays the very same folder just fine.

We prefer (or used to prefer) VLC Player to DVD Player because VLC gives us some controls over gamma and whatnot that we find useful. But it's not working.

I tried, on the MacBook Pro:

1. Quitting VLC

2. Emptying the Trash then trashing the following:

- A folder named ~/Library/Preferences/org.videolan.vlc
- A file named ~/Library/Preferences/org.videolan.vlc.plist
- A folder named ~/Library/Caches/fontconfig
- A folder named ~/Library/Caches/org.videolan.vlc

- (BTW, I noticed a file named ~/Library/Preferences/org.videolan.vlc.LSSharedFileList -- might it help to delete that, too?)

3. Trying to play the folder again, using Steps 2 through 5 of the procedure above.
- VLC started up with a couple of differences:

- a. It said it found a Preferences file for an old version, and suggested deleting it. I said yes.
- (It did not delete ~/Library/Preferences/org.videolan.vlc.LSSharedFileList.)

- b. It rebuilt the font cache.

Then exactly the same symptoms as before.

Any suggestions?

--Gil

[kdean]

Either wait for the soon to be released 2.0.2 or download a 2.0.2 nightly to try. I find it to be better with dvds and a variety of others issues that have been fixed.

http://nightlies.videolan.org/build/mac ... l/?C=M;O=D

[GilDawson]

"soon to be released 2.0.2"--

I don't mind waiting. I'm glad to learn that it might not be something I did.

Thanks to the people who are working on this.

--Gil

[carlsont]

I too can run the 1.1.9 just fine, but 2.0.1 just won't play no matter what I do. Don't get me wrong, VLC ROCKS!

Here's some info that might help...

Model Name: Mac mini
Model Identifier: Macmini3,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 3 MB
Memory: 2 GB
Bus Speed: 1.07 GHz
Boot ROM Version: MM31.0081.B06
SMC Version (system): 1.35f0

This is on system software 10.6.8... oops I mean MacOS.

I ran the 2.0.1 version from the command line with -vvv and then captured the debug file ... I've pasted it here without the "main debug: Buffering xx%" lines thinking that would be redundant. I couldn't get a debug file launching it from the finder.

Let me know if there is anything else I can provide to help with this.

Best,

T

freetype debug: Took 100145 microseconds
freetype debug: Using Arial Unicode MS as font from file /Library/Fonts/Arial Unicode.ttf
freetype debug: using fontsize: 2
main debug: using text renderer module "freetype"
main debug: TIMER module_need() : 138.349 ms - Total 138.349 ms / 1 intvls (Avg 138.349 ms)
main debug: looking for video filter2 module: 15 candidates
swscale debug: 32x32 chroma: YUVA -> 16x16 chroma: RGBA with scaling using Bicubic (good quality)
main debug: using video filter2 module "swscale"
main debug: TIMER module_need() : 1.298 ms - Total 1.298 ms / 1 intvls (Avg 1.298 ms)
main debug: looking for video filter2 module: 15 candidates
yuvp debug: YUVP to YUVA converter
main debug: using video filter2 module "yuvp"
main debug: TIMER module_need() : 2.271 ms - Total 2.271 ms / 1 intvls (Avg 2.271 ms)
main debug: Deinterlacing available
main debug: deinterlace 0, mode blend, is_needed 0
main debug: Opening vout display wrapper
main debug: looking for vout display module: 2 candidates
vout_macosx error: no OpenGL hardware acceleration found, video output will fail
main debug: VoutDisplayEvent 'fullscreen' 0
main debug: VoutDisplayEvent 'resize' 780x520 window
main debug: using vout display module "caca"
main debug: TIMER module_need() : 266.424 ms - Total 266.424 ms / 1 intvls (Avg 266.424 ms)
main debug: A filter to adapt decoder to display is needed
main debug: looking for video filter2 module: 15 candidates
swscale debug: 640x360 chroma: I420 -> 640x360 chroma: RV32 with scaling using Bicubic (good quality)
main debug: using video filter2 module "swscale"
main debug: TIMER module_need() : 0.379 ms - Total 0.379 ms / 1 intvls (Avg 0.379 ms)
main debug: Filter 'Swscale' (0x10098eaf0) appended to chain
main debug: original format sz 640x360, of (0,0), vsz 640x360, 4cc I420, sar 1:1, msk r0x0 g0x0 b0x0
main debug: removing module "freetype"
main debug: looking for text renderer module: 3 candidates
freetype debug: Building font databases.
freetype debug: Took 37903 microseconds
freetype debug: Using Arial Unicode MS as font from file /Library/Fonts/Arial Unicode.ttf
freetype debug: using fontsize: 2
main debug: using text renderer module "freetype"
main debug: TIMER module_need() : 40.109 ms - Total 40.109 ms / 1 intvls (Avg 40.109 ms)
avcodec debug: using direct rendering
main debug: creating audio output
main debug: looking for audio output module: 1 candidate
main debug: VLC is looking for: 'f32l' 44100 Hz Stereo frame=1 samples/8 bytes
auhal debug: found 2 audio device(s)
auhal debug: DevID: 258 DevName: Built-in Input
auhal debug: this device is INPUT only. skipping...
auhal debug: DevID: 260 DevName: Built-in Output
auhal debug: found 9 stream formats
auhal debug: supported format: [96000.000000][mcpl][12][4][1][4][2][16]
auhal debug: supported format: [48000.000000][mcpl][12][4][1][4][2][16]
auhal debug: supported format: [44100.000000][mcpl][12][4][1][4][2][16]
auhal debug: supported format: [96000.000000][mcpl][4][8][1][8][2][20]
auhal debug: supported format: [48000.000000][mcpl][4][8][1][8][2][20]
auhal debug: supported format: [44100.000000][mcpl][4][8][1][8][2][20]
auhal debug: supported format: [96000.000000][mcpl][4][8][1][8][2][24]
auhal debug: supported format: [48000.000000][mcpl][4][8][1][8][2][24]
auhal debug: supported format: [44100.000000][mcpl][4][8][1][8][2][24]
main debug: End of video preroll
main debug: Received first picture
main debug: looking for video blending module: 1 candidate
main debug: using video blending module "blend"
main debug: TIMER module_need() : 12.484 ms - Total 12.484 ms / 1 intvls (Avg 12.484 ms)
main debug: VoutDisplayEvent 'resize' 780x520 window
main debug: Post-processing available
caca error: Unsupported query in vout display caca
main error: Failed to set on top
main debug: auto hiding mouse cursor
auhal debug: current format is: [44100.000000][mcpl][41][4][1][4][2][32]
auhal debug: layout of AUHAL has 2 channels
auhal debug: selected 2 physical channels for device output
auhal debug: VLC will output: Stereo
auhal debug: we set the AU format: [44100.000000][mcpl][9][8][1][8][2][32]
auhal debug: the actual set AU format is [44100.000000][mcpl][9][8][1][8][2][32]
auhal debug: analog output successfully opened
main debug: using audio output module "auhal"
main debug: TIMER module_need() : 1622.295 ms - Total 1622.295 ms / 1 intvls (Avg 1622.295 ms)
main debug: output 'f32l' 44100 Hz Stereo frame=1 samples/8 bytes
main debug: mixer 'f32l' 44100 Hz Stereo frame=1 samples/8 bytes
main debug: filter(s) 'f32l'->'f32l' 44100 Hz->44100 Hz Stereo->Stereo
main debug: conversion pipeline completed
main debug: looking for audio mixer module: 2 candidates
main debug: using audio mixer module "float32_mixer"
main debug: TIMER module_need() : 0.551 ms - Total 0.551 ms / 1 intvls (Avg 0.551 ms)
main debug: input 'f32l' 44100 Hz Stereo frame=1 samples/8 bytes
main debug: looking for audio filter module: 1 candidate
scaletempo debug: format: 44100 rate, 2 nch, 4 bps, fl32
scaletempo debug: params: 30 stride, 0.200 overlap, 14 search
scaletempo debug: 1.000 scale, 1323.000 stride_in, 1323 stride_out, 1059 standing, 264 overlap, 617 search, 2204 queue, fl32 mode
main debug: using audio filter module "scaletempo"
main debug: TIMER module_need() : 0.557 ms - Total 0.557 ms / 1 intvls (Avg 0.557 ms)
main debug: filter(s) 'f32l'->'f32l' 44100 Hz->44100 Hz Stereo->Stereo
main debug: conversion pipeline completed
main debug: filter(s) 'f32l'->'f32l' 44100 Hz->44100 Hz Stereo->Stereo
main debug: conversion pipeline completed
main debug: filter(s) 'f32l'->'f32l' 48510 Hz->44100 Hz Stereo->Stereo
main debug: looking for audio filter module: 14 candidates
main debug: using audio filter module "samplerate"
main debug: TIMER module_need() : 1.304 ms - Total 1.304 ms / 1 intvls (Avg 1.304 ms)
main debug: conversion pipeline completed
main debug: End of audio preroll
main debug: Decoder buffering done in 2059 ms