Comment by its_ubuntu

Comment by its_ubuntu a day ago

It's Ubuntu. Trust me.

This is why I built my own distro. It took a while for me to re-learn which are actually good or bad apps. I had spent so long using the garbage Ubuntu versions only to find that the same apps, when compiled from scratch on my vanilla distro, work just fine and are way more solid and reliable.

VLC was one of those. But really, you should be using MPV instead as it's a far superior video player, or Audacious (in classic WinAmp/XMMS mode) for playing audio. VLC just sucks.

Hope this helps.

dmurray 12 hours ago

VLC failed on other videos from the same source.

Ubuntu's default player worked. I've rarely used it.

Some bug in VLC with whatever codec these use, and then some system level bug allowing that to kill the whole machine.

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its_ubuntu 5 hours ago

Nah, it's not a bug in VLC. It's a bug in whatever janky patches Ubuntu applies to the entire ecosystem, including VLC. Somehow or another they screw things up.
I had the same thought as you at first, and was so unimpressed with buggy ass VLC on Linux Mint I was going to revert to the 2.x version, when I first built my distro. It wouldn't compile however, so I was forced to go to the latest 3.x. It turned out to work fine. The problems I had on Ubuntu just vanished and it was rock solid.
Now VLC did turn out to have some actual problems in the end that shifted me to MPV permanently. But nothing like crashing the whole system. That's all Ubuntu right there.

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