VLC Video not working in Fedora 24/25

[Sparky68]

Hi, I have the following version of VLC installed under Fedora Linux 25 vlc-1:3.0.0-16.20170103git8d997bc.fc25.x86_64

I could not get the video to play correctly, and this was also the case under Fedora 24 before I upgraded to 25.

After following the advice of someone with a slightly different problem with VLC I tried their suggestion, and it seems to work ok.

Open VLC and go to Tools/Preferences/Video and change the 'video output' from the default of 'Automatic' to 'XVideo output (XCB)' which is further down the drop down menu.

I have found that it now plays all the videos that I have thrown at it!

I hope this helps anyone out who are using VLC under Fedora Linux 24/25

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

That will work around most graphic driver bugs. But that will drastically increase the CPU usage (to the point of not working on some slower systems).

[Sparky68]

Hi Remi, that may be so but I would rather have it working and put up with extra CPU useage..

[robertdaleweir]

Hi
I just came upon this thread and the solution proposed by Sparky68 worked for me on F24. I guess my question is is this issue being addressed as a 'bug'? Is it an issue with VLC or with Linux Drivers.
Robert

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

As already stated, that would be a driver bug. I don't really see what VLC can do about this.