Hi Rob,
I've looked through some D-Bus code, and I think there's an environment variable that might let it continue after this error. Can you try:
`DBUS_FATAL_WARNINGS=0 vlc`
`Best wishes,`
`Thomas`
On Mon, 6 Mar 2023, at 08:51, Rob Malpass via Hampshire wrote:
> Hi all
>
> This might sound like an old chestnut but I'm fed up of googling because it is qutie "subtle"....
>
> I have some home-recorded DVDs (converted to ISO) which won't play on VLC on Ubuntu (Jammy). VLC opens and crashes immediately. The trouble is:
> * The same files play fine on VLC on both Mac and Windows
> * Some other home-made DVD ISOs play fine on Jammy. It may be that I recorded the working ones with one DVD recorder and the non-working ones with another DVD recorder. Come what may - both Mac and Windows will play all of them.
>
> I've run vlc from the command line and I get the error below. It looks like it's something to do with a locale. FWIW I've changed the output between wayland on gnome and X11 - but neither works. Any ideas anyone?
>
> Cheers
> Rob
>
> VLC media player 3.0.16 Vetinari (revision 3.0.13-8-g41878ff4f2)
> Warning: Ignoring XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland on Gnome. Use QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland to run on Wayland anyway.
> disc.c:437: error opening file BDMV/index.bdmv
> disc.c:437: error opening file BDMV/BACKUP/index.bdmv
> bluray.c:2652: nav_get_title_list((null)) failed
> dbus[7041]: arguments to dbus_message_iter_append_basic() were incorrect, assertion "_dbus_check_is_valid_utf8 (*string_p)" failed in file ../../../dbus/dbus-message.c line 2760.
> This is normally a bug in some application using the D-Bus library.
>
> D-Bus not built with -rdynamic so unable to print a backtrace
> Aborted (core dumped)
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