DVD video playback will freeze when switching to fullscreen mode with skins
Linux Operating System: Ubuntu 14.04
$ uname -a
Linux 3.13.0-40-generic [#69](https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/-/issues/69)-Ubuntu SMP Thu Nov 13 17:56:26 UTC 2014 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux
VLC Player Version: 2.1.4
$ dpkg -s vlc
Package: vlc
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: video
Installed-Size: 3604
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com>
Architecture: i386
Version: 2.1.4-0ubuntu14.04.1
Replaces: vlc-data (<< 1.1.5), vlc-nox (<< 2.0.2)
Provides: mp3-decoder
Depends: fonts-freefont-ttf, vlc-nox (= 2.1.4-0ubuntu14.04.1), libaa1 (>= 1.4p5), libc6 (>= 2.15), libcaca0 (>= 0.99.beta17-1), libfreetype6 (>= 2.2.1), libfribidi0 (>= 0.19.2), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1), libgl1-mesa-glx | libgl1, libqtcore4 (>= 4:4.8.0), libqtgui4 (>= 4:4.8.0), libsdl-image1.2 (>= 1.2.10), libsdl1.2debian (>= 1.2.11), libstdc++6 (>= 4.6), libtar0, libva-x11-1 (>> 1.3.0~), libva1 (>> 1.3.0~), libvlccore7 (>= 2.1.0), libx11-6, libxcb-composite0, libxcb-keysyms1 (>= 0.3.9), libxcb-randr0 (>= 1.1), libxcb-shm0, libxcb-xv0 (>= 1.2), libxcb1 (>= 1.6), libxext6, libxinerama1, libxpm4, zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.3.3)
Pre-Depends: dpkg (>= 1.15.6~)
Recommends: vlc-plugin-notify (= 2.1.4-0ubuntu14.04.1), vlc-plugin-pulse (= 2.1.4-0ubuntu14.04.1), xdg-utils
Suggests: videolan-doc
Breaks: vlc-data (<< 1.1.5), vlc-nox (<< 2.0.2)
Description: multimedia player and streamer
VLC is the VideoLAN project's media player. It plays MPEG, MPEG-2, MPEG-4,
DivX, MOV, WMV, QuickTime, WebM, FLAC, MP3, Ogg/Vorbis files, DVDs, VCDs,
podcasts, and multimedia streams from various network sources.
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VLC can also be used as a streaming server that duplicates the stream it
reads and multicasts them through the network to other clients, or serves
them through HTTP.
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VLC has support for on-the-fly transcoding of audio and video formats, either
for broadcasting purposes or for movie format transformations. Support for
most output methods is provided by this package, but features can be added
by installing additional audio plugins (vlc-plugin-pulse, vlc-plugin-sdl)
or video plugins (vlc-plugin-sdl).
Homepage: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
Original-Maintainer: Debian Multimedia Maintainers <pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
When using the player to view a DVD the video playback will freeze once I switch from the default player mode to fullscreen. The DVD audio continues to playback but the video is completely frozen. The DVD will play perfectly so long as it's not in fullscreen mode.
I've discovered the apparent cause of the issue. It is this: if you change the interface setting for look and feel (L&F) from the default native style to a custom skin (even the default.vlt) skin that comes with the VLC package, going from the normal mode to fullscreen using any switch mode (i.e. F11, hot-key f, menu selector, etc.), the video simply freezes on the frame that was active when you do the switch. As soon as you switch back from fullscreen to normal player mode, the dvd video playback continues at the frame that corresponds to tha audio that continues to playback normally (which happens while the video is frozen in fullscreen).
I had downloaded the skins from the VLC addons site and had the player interface L&F to use one of those skins. I tried multiple skins and observed the same behavior so it does not appear to be related to the source skin file being rendered for the interface L&F.
Skins sourced:
$ cd /usr/share/vlc/skins2
$ ll
total 1784
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Dec 8 18:26 ./
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Aug 22 21:57 ../
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 163647 May 17 2014 default.vlt
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 22 21:57 fonts/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 167 May 17 2014 skin.catalog
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10662 May 17 2014 skin.dtd
-rw-r--r-- 1 xxxx xxxx 457310 Feb 2 2011 windows_media_player_12.vlt
-rw-r--r-- 1 xxxx xxxx 219677 Feb 2 2011 Win_VLC_11.vlt
-rw-r--r-- 1 xxxx xxxx 287401 Feb 2 2011 WMP11.vlt
-rw-r--r-- 1 xxxx xxxx 443480 Feb 2 2011 wmp12.vlt
-rw-r--r-- 1 xxxx xxxx 191117 Feb 2 2011 WMP_B_2.vlt
If there is additional info (such as debug trace,etc.) you'd like me to capture I'd be happy to provide this for you.