vlc is crashing on fedora 37

Vlc is crashing when I'm trying to play videos on it. Here are the details ->

format of videos: .mkv

vlc version: 3.0.18(installed using fedora's native package manager dnf)

system info:

output when launching through terminal:

I can confirm this issue on Arch Linux as well; I also collected a backtrace: VLC-backtrace.txt VLC-terminal-output.log

VLC version: 3.0.18 (revision 3.0.13-8-g41878ff4) - compiled with GCC 12.2.0

I use an x86-64-v3 repo, just to be clear, but the issue is consistent with opening this file type.

I use HDMI with an Nvidia GPU, but am not currently using this for audio, as I was using a USB headset at the time.

VideoLAN's Gitlab instance is not for user-level support.

We don't build packages for these Linux distributions.

You should use Fedora or Arch bug reporting infrastructure for issues such as these.

As a side note, try running with VA-API acceleration disabled and see if you can reproduce the issue.

By the look of the stack trace, this is a bug inside the Qt5 version provided by the distributions.

Try with the VLC Snap. There is nothing VideoLAN can do about distribution-provided Qt bugs.

Fedora package maintainer speaking.

With the nvidia-vaapi-driver (https://github.com/elFarto/nvidia-vaapi-driver/ ). That is actually a wrapper over vaapi and nvdec, some nvidia users seem to prefer vaapi over vdpau.

For some reason, I'm not reproducing myslef (on non-optimus case, optimus is its own can of worms WRT to this issue).

Is there a way to force vdpau by default (and assume that can gracefully discarded on non-vdpau capable hw) ?

Sure, but you're just moving the problem as there is also a buggy VAAPI backend for VDPAU that's also commonly found. So you'll now have problems with Intel and AMD instead of with VDPAU.

added Platform::GNU/Linux Status::not VLC labels

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