The VideoLAN team have pushed VLC 3.0.0-rc1 to the candidate channel in the snap store. This is in advance of the final 3.0.0 release of the world’s favourite video player.
One thing that doesn’t work though, is screen blanking prevention while playing back a video fullscreen. After one minute, my screen dims and then blanks, and the screensaver kicks in.
This is Ubuntu 17.10 on wayland, and vlc is connected to the screen-inhibit-control slot.
$ snap run vlc
VLC media player 3.0.0-rc2 Vetinari (revision 3.0.0-rc1-64-gae8c173)
[0000000001588330] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface.
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "unity-gtk-module"
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module"
Qt: Session management error: None of the authentication protocols specified are supported
[00000000016156d0] main playlist: playlist is empty
Installation was fine. I am getting the same errors on startup when running on Ubuntu 17.04 as @nichlas is (although they don’t seem to affect anything). As long as it works as intended it’s good in my book.
For me it started playing the dvd at 5.01 minutes , it freezes and shutdown.
and now it won’t open any dvd disc. All my dvds works with videos and vlc2.
My favorite dvd player is the default Videos nice and rich pictures.
Clicking through the open dialog to play a bluray disc, with no disc in the drive, causes VLC to segfault. Strangely this doesn’t happen on my laptop, which has no bluray nor dvd drive installed.
So I’ve managed to test some audio and video playback using the snap and so far I’m very happy that it is not crashing all the time like my previous installed version used to on my nvidia rig.
Still I would really prefer to have some fonts
Can only play videos from ~/Videos. Even if I put a link int this directory, doesn’t work. Since I have my videos on a harddrive , not on my SSD, it doesn’t work. The video playback works for some tested videos. Since I can’t copy all my videos around, snap = fail.
snap interfaces vlc tells me it uses the home and removable-media and other plugs, but so far i could only play files from home, for “/media/{user}/{filesystem}/” i always get (Permission denied) in syslog.
