Hi all,
I have an older laptop that I have been searching for a distro that will run well, and after trying several I found Sparky LXQt, which is just awesome. Laptop is a HP Pavalion, probably about 6 years old.
I watch a lot of videos at work, and I use VLC mainly. I have never had a problem with it on my PC running straight Debian or my other newer laptop running Arch.
Now every time I try to watch a video, no matter what format, even streaming, it freezes to the point I have to go to htop to kill it. I tried smplayer, which I haven't used much, and same problem. The video will start playing and in less than a minute just freeze.
Could this be a video driver issue ? I was using Bunsen Labs before Sparky and it is also based on Debian and I didn't have this problem.
What am I missing ?
Thanks
Bunsen is stable, Sparky is testing. smplayer is basically an add on for mpv or mplayer. Vlc is a whole lot of dependencies in a changing testing environment. mpv is a complete rewrite of mplayer. Try running your video in mpv.
If Vlc is what you want, it should sort itself out in a little while - the freeze is on. What does the Debian Bug Tracking system say about vlcx and smplayer.