#1112045 vlc: all videos cause segfault after update Bookworm -> Trixie

Package:
vlc
Source:
vlc
Description:
multimedia player and streamer
Submitter:
Albrecht Dreß
Date:
2025-09-28 08:51:01 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1112045#5
Date:
2025-08-25 15:56:00 UTC
From:
To:
Dear Maintainer,

after the update of the system from Debian Bookworm to Trixie, all videos cause
a segfault of vlc.  Vlc worked just fine on Bookworm, and it doesn't seem to be
a general video player issue, as xine still plays them.

I attach the debug output of running “vlc -vvv [video file] 2> vlc.err” and the
related messages from dmesg.  My hardware is a rather old iMac13,1 with a
“NVIDIA Corporation GK107M [GeForce GT 650M Mac Edition] (rev a1)”, if that
matters.
#1112045#10
Date:
2025-09-28 08:49:22 UTC
From:
To:
Hi Albrecht

[...]

Looks to me like you run into a hardware driver bug. I suggest you
switch to software decoding and try again. And if that works, I suggest
to close the bug. There is not much on the vlc side we can do.

Cheers