Hi Albrecht On 2025-08-25 15:56:00 +0000, Albrecht Dreß wrote: > Package: vlc > Version: 3.0.21-10 > Severity: important > > Dear Maintainer, > > after the update of the system from Debian Bookworm to Trixie, all videos > cause > a segfault of vlc. Vlc worked just fine on Bookworm, and it doesn't seem to > be > a general video player issue, as xine still plays them. > > I attach the debug output of running “vlc -vvv [video file] 2> vlc.err” and > the > related messages from dmesg. My hardware is a rather old iMac13,1 with a > “NVIDIA Corporation GK107M [GeForce GT 650M Mac Edition] (rev a1)”, if that > matters.
[...] > [00007f14610f3df0] avcodec decoder: Using G3DVL VDPAU Driver Shared Library > version 1.0 for hardware decoding > [h264 @ 0x7f14611d7640] Format vdpau chosen by get_format(). > [h264 @ 0x7f14611d7640] Format vdpau requires hwaccel h264_vdpau > initialisation. > [h264 @ 0x7f14611d7640] Reinit context to 720x416, pix_fmt: vdpau > [h264 @ 0x7f14611d7640] ct_type:1 pic_struct:0 > [h264 @ 0x7f14611d7640] no picture > [h264 @ 0x7f14612cd0c0] nal_unit_type: 6(SEI), nal_ref_idc: 0 > [h264 @ 0x7f14612cd0c0] nal_unit_type: 1(Coded slice of a non-IDR picture), > nal_ref_idc: 2 > [h264 @ 0x7f14612cd0c0] ct_type:1 pic_struct:0 > [h264 @ 0x7f14612cd0c0] no picture > nouveau: kernel rejected pushbuf: No such device > nouveau: ch7: krec 0 pushes 1 bufs 3 relocs 0 > nouveau: ch7: buf 00000000 00000044 00000004 00000004 00000000 0x7f1459aed000 > 0x277000 0x8000 > nouveau: ch7: buf 00000001 00000053 00000002 00000002 00000000 0x7f14504fb000 > 0x2320000 0x100000 > nouveau: ch7: buf 00000002 00000055 00000002 00000000 00000002 (nil) > 0x2820000 0x400000 > nouveau: ch7: psh 00000000 0000000058 000000009c > [0x00000000] HDR 200541c0 subch 2 NINC > mthd 0700 unknown method > .VALUE = 0x20013 > mthd 0704 unknown method > .VALUE = 0x23201 > mthd 0708 unknown method > .VALUE = 0x23207 > mthd 070c unknown method > .VALUE = 0x23205 > mthd 0710 unknown method > .VALUE = 0x3 > > [0x00000006] HDR 20084100 subch 2 NINC > mthd 0400 unknown method > .VALUE = 0x23200 > mthd 0404 unknown method > .VALUE = 0x28200 > mthd 0408 unknown method > .VALUE = 0x200 > mthd 040c unknown method > .VALUE = 0x28289 > mthd 0410 unknown method > .VALUE = 0x3f7700 > mthd 0414 unknown method > .VALUE = 0x28202 > mthd 0418 unknown method > .VALUE = 0x8700 > mthd 041c unknown method > .VALUE = 0x0 > > [0x0000000f] HDR 200140c0 subch 2 NINC > mthd 0300 unknown method > .VALUE = 0x0 > > nouveau: kernel rejected pushbuf: Invalid argument > nouveau: ch8: krec 0 pushes 1 bufs 0 relocs 0 Looks to me like you run into a hardware driver bug. I suggest you switch to software decoding and try again. And if that works, I suggest to close the bug. There is not much on the vlc side we can do. Cheers -- Sebastian Ramacher
