Re: [Hampshire] VLC on Ubuntu not playing some DVD VRs

Thanks Thomas - that's done the trick. Will setup an alias or a one line
shell script now.



Cheers

Rob



From: Hampshire <hampshire-bounces@???> On Behalf Of Thomas
Kluyver via Hampshire
Sent: 06 March 2023 09:21
To: Rob Malpass via Hampshire <hampshire@???>
Cc: Thomas Kluyver <thomas@???>
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] VLC on Ubuntu not playing some DVD VRs



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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