Hello,
vlc is broken in Fedora 26 and 27. It coredumps on every mp4 on my systems.
On both F26 and F27
$ vlc Democracy_-_Im_Rausch_der_Daten.mp4
VLC media player 3.0.0-rc1 Vetinari (revision 3.0.0-git-134-gadec1d1874)
[01bf5938] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use
vlc without interface.
libva info: VA-API version 0.40.0
libva info: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/dri/i965_drv_video.so
libva info: va_openDriver() returns -1
[01c85728] glconv_vaapi_x11 gl error: vaInitialize: unknown libva error
libva info: VA-API version 0.40.0
libva info: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/dri/i965_drv_video.so
libva info: va_openDriver() returns -1
[01c85728] glconv_vaapi_drm gl error: vaInitialize: unknown libva error
libva info: VA-API version 0.40.0
libva info: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/dri/i965_drv_video.so
libva info: va_openDriver() returns -1
[01c85728] glconv_vaapi_drm gl error: vaInitialize: unknown libva error
libva info: VA-API version 0.40.0
libva info: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/dri/i965_drv_video.so
libva info: va_openDriver() returns -1
[01c85728] glconv_vaapi_drm gl error: vaInitialize: unknown libva error
libva info: VA-API version 0.40.0
libva info: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/dri/i965_drv_video.so
libva info: va_openDriver() returns -1
[01c85728] glconv_vaapi_drm gl error: vaInitialize: unknown libva error
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
Both system are updated to the newest versions:
vlc-3.0.0-0.43.git20171208.fc26.i686
vlc-3.0.0-0.43.git20171208.fc27.i686
What to do?
Cheers,
Frank