Thank you, Olaf Hering, Jason Craig, and Masaru Nomiya for kindly taking some time to write some things relating to my problems with vlc-beta-20211210.736213df13-pm153.17.1-x86_64 and/or the software package vlc! After looking at my notes and Yet another Software Tool 2’s (YaST2’s) Software Management, Extras, Show History I could see that on August 18, 2021 I gratefully also had success playing a .mp4 (Moving or Motion Picture Experts Group, audio-layer-4) file in vlc-beta-20210812.fcba92731a… in my Leap-15.3 installation in VirtualBox 6.1.22, 6.1.24, or 6.1.26 using probably either the Linux kernel 5.3.18-59.16.1-preempt or 5.3.18-59.16.1-default.
I made the switch from vlc-beta to vlc with the following commands as a "root" user: zypper refresh zypper rm vlc-beta vlc-beta-debuginfo vlc-beta-debugsource zypper refresh zypper install –repo http-ftp.gwdg.de-2f96c871 -f vlc vlc-lang vlc-codecs vlc-codecs-debuginfo vlc-debuginfo (Again http-ftp.gwdg.de-2f96c871 is the “alias” in my repository setup for the online Packman repository https://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/packman/suse/openSUSE_Leap_15.3/ on the Internet.). In addition I was informed that the following software packages would also be installed: libvlc5 libvlccore9 vlc-noX vlc-qt, to which I entered “y” for probably “yes”. Afterward I double-clicked on the desktop icon I had for previously starting vlc-beta with the “target” file /usr/share/applications/vlc.desktop and which probably ultimately enabled the execution of /usr/bin/vlc. The result was that the main window of the VLC media player not only opened with “menu” items in it; but also I could gratefully play a .mp4 file in that version 3.0.16, Vetinari of the VLC media player with both audio and video signals! Masaru Nomiya wrote that he did not receive a segmentation fault while playing a .mp4 file in vlc-beta-20211210.736213-pm153.17.1.x86_64 in his computer “environment”, whatever it was. Therefore a reasonable conclusion may be that the segmentation fault I received in my Leap-15.3, in-VirtualBox-6.1.30 computer “environment” may somehow be attributable to my computer “environment” of my Leap-15.3 installation in VirtualBox. Olaf Hering reported that “any issue with upstream vlc.git#master should be reported directly on the upstream vlc devel mailing list.” So even though I have abandoned vlc-beta in favor of vlc-related software packages from the Packman repository, I reported my issues with vlc-beta in an electronic-mail letter to the electronic-mail address vlc-de...@videolan.org after joining the vlc-devel electronic-mailing list. On Sat, Dec 18, 2021 at 6:33 PM Masaru Nomiya <nom...@galaxy.dti.ne.jp> wrote: > Hello, > > In the Message; > > Subject : Re: [packman] A segmentation fault in attempting to have > the Qt window of vlc-beta-20211210.736213df13-pm153.17.1.x86_64 fully > loaded in a 64-bit, openSUSE, Leap-15.3, Linux operating system installed > in VirtualBox > Message-ID : <5a4cc332-6e68-4bb2-361f-06f7f8703...@jacraig.com> > Date & Time: Sat, 18 Dec 2021 15:44:39 -0700 > > [JC] == Jason Craig <os-...@jacraig.com> has written: > > JC> On 12/17/2021 11:19, Lawrence Patrick Somerville wrote: > [...] > > JC> Do you really need a beta version of VLC to play an MP4? Is there > JC> some reason you can't just use the stable version (3.0.16)? I > JC> would expect the beta to not work at times, including having > JC> segmentation faults. > > I intalled vlc-beta-20211210.736213df13-pm153.17.1.x86_64.rpm, and > tested. > I've never got segmentation fault with playing mp4 files. > But, this vlc-beta can't play all mp4 files. > That is, it denpends on codec. > For example, when trying to play av1 codec video, just get no video > (=black screen). > > But, after recompiling vlc-beta; > > vlc-beta-20211210.736213df13-pm153.17.1.src.rpm > > with my environment, this can play all mp4 files flawlessly. > > In short, the same is true for vlc 3.0.16. > > openSUSE DOES NOT include codecs with patent issues. > > --- > ┏━━┓彡 Masaru Nomiya mail-to: nomiya @ galaxy.dti.ne.jp > ┃\/彡 > ┗━━┛ Think. > -- The IBM slogan -- > > _______________________________________________ > Packman mailing list > Packman@links2linux.de > https://lists.links2linux.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/packman _______________________________________________ Packman mailing list Packman@links2linux.de https://lists.links2linux.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/packman