Re: Ubuntu 20.04 and vlc

[Jerry Geis <jerry.geis@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Nov 5, 2021 at 11:02 AM Ilia Mirkin <imirkin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hey Jerry,

I'd look in the kernel log to see what's up. Perhaps the GPU hangs?

Cheers,

  -ilia

On Fri, Nov 5, 2021 at 10:42 AM Jerry Geis <jerry.geis@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I am using Ubuntu 20.04 with VLC... normally the box boots up runs an plays videos just fien with about 20% usage for VLC (celeron and or intel Atom hardware).
> After some time - day or two of playing videos. Something happens.
> The CPU usage jumps way up like 120% kind of usage.  Like the vdpau stuff is no longer working.
>
> Is this a know issue ?
> What should I look for  ?
> What can I provide to help ?
>
>  Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU D525   @ 1.80GHz
> 03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GT218 [ION] (rev a2)
>
> Thanks
>
> Jerry

dmesg log 

   37.212407] kernel: bpfilter: Loaded bpfilter_umh pid 794
[   37.214069] unknown: Started bpfilter
[   38.778000] kernel: RTL8211B Gigabit Ethernet r8169-0-458:00: attached PHY driver (mii_bus:phy_addr=r8169-0-458:00, irq=MAC)
[   38.856101] kernel: r8169 0000:04:0b.0 enp4s11: Link is Down
[   41.275140] kernel: r8169 0000:04:0b.0 enp4s11: Link is Up - 1Gbps/Full - flow control off
[   41.275192] kernel: IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): enp4s11: link becomes ready

/var/log/syslog

Nov  5 11:11:50 mediaport44 smboot.sh[16157]: libva info: VA-API version 1.7.0
Nov  5 11:11:50 mediaport44 smboot.sh[16157]: libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/nouveau_drv_video.so
Nov  5 11:11:50 mediaport44 smboot.sh[16157]: libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_1_7
Nov  5 11:11:50 mediaport44 smboot.sh[16157]: libva info: va_openDriver() returns 0

if I reboot the box - and look again at syslog it shows the same thing above.

Not seeing any  errors or anything.

Thoughts? 

 Jerry