Ubuntu
vlc package

ui freezes after a short perioud when browsing upnp media

Bug #1318262 reported by MrMur
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vlc (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

When browsing upnp content, vlc will freeze and start to consume 100% of a CPU core. If you run from the terminal, the console will fill up with...

total jobs = 100, too many jobstotal jobs = 100, too many jobstotal jobs = 100, too many jobstotal jobs = 100, too many jobstotal jobs = 100, too many jobstotal jobs = 100, too many jobstotal jobs = 100, too many jobstotal jobs = 100, too many jobstotal jobs = 100, too many jobstotal jobs = 100, too many jobstotal jobs = 100.....

This happened on a 32 bit upgraded laptop (11.10 -> 12.04 -> 14.04) and a newly installed 64 bit laptop (14.04).

The upnpn server in question is Mediatomb, running on Ubuntu 14.04 server, on top of Xen 4.4.

Thanks for reading.

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MrMur (murrayie) wrote :

I forgot to say that this is repeatable everytime on two different devices, at least for me in my environment

Rémi Denis-Courmont (rdenis)
Changed in vlc (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Sascha Lüdecke (sascha-w) wrote :

I experience the same behaviour when playing local files, files from a CIFS mount or a SFTP mount. I do run a TwonkyMedia server on my network.

$ vlc --version
VLC media player 2.1.4 Rincewind (revision 2.1.4-0-g2a072be)
VLC version 2.1.4 Rincewind (2.1.4-0-g2a072be)
Compiled by buildd on brownie.buildd (May 17 2014 14:52:46)
Compiler: gcc version 4.8.2 (Ubuntu 4.8.2-19ubuntu1)

 $ uname -a
Linux slux 3.13.0-36-lowlatency #63-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT Wed Sep 3 21:56:12 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

$ cat /etc/issue
Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS \n \l

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Sander Jonkers (jonkers) wrote :

This happens on my Ubuntu 15.04 with VLC 2.2.0.

AFAIK Patch provided here: http://sourceforge.net/p/pupnp/bugs/108/#624e

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package vlc - 3.0.0~rc1-1ubuntu1

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vlc (3.0.0~rc1-1ubuntu1) bionic; urgency=medium

  * Apply patch from LocutusOfBorg to fix the FTBFS.

 -- Simon Quigley <email address hidden> Sat, 16 Dec 2017 16:18:42 -0600

Changed in vlc (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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