GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 789563
VLC under Wayland causes system freezes in fullscreen mode
Last modified: 2021-07-05 13:47:04 UTC
I already filed a bug report for Ubuntu in launchpad and I was asked to create this upstream bug report. The original bug report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/debian/+source/vlc/+bug/1720901 Ubuntu version: 17.10 Gnome version: 3.26.1 vlc version: 2.2.6-6 What I expect to happen: When playing a video in vlc and switching to fullscreen mode everything should work fine. Also when changing to a different position of a movie in fullscreen I expect the player to just switch to that position. What actually happens: It seems to depend a little on the file type of the video, mostly I get problems when going to fullscreen mode and then switching to a different position with the playback position bar. With some videos it was even enough to just open the fullscreen mode. The video freezes just displaying a frame while the audio keeps playing. The computer does not react any more to mouse or keyboard input, I have to perform a hard reboot. This problem only appears under the Wayland session, in the Xorg session everything works fine as expected.
Possibly related: bug 777289.
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