From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 26 2:57:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freebsd.tekrealm.net (dsl081-247-162.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net [64.81.247.162]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F28E837B40D for ; Sun, 26 Aug 2001 02:57:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from elitetek@tekrealm.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by freebsd.tekrealm.net (8.11.6/8.11.4) id f7Q9v5X53237; Sun, 26 Aug 2001 02:57:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from elitetek@tekrealm.net) Received: (from elitetek@localhost) by freebsd.tekrealm.net (8.11.6/8.11.4av) id f7Q9v4l53229; Sun, 26 Aug 2001 02:57:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from elitetek@tekrealm.net) X-Authentication-Warning: freebsd.tekrealm.net: elitetek set sender to elitetek@tekrealm.net using -f Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2001 02:57:04 -0700 From: Andrew Stuart To: Mikko Tyolajarvi Cc: conrads@home.com, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vlc: Virtual timer expired Message-ID: <20010826025704.A53201@freebsd.tekrealm.net> Reply-To: elitetek@tekrealm.net References: <200108241347.f7ODl9N23798@mikko.dynas.se> <20010825164512.A48089@freebsd.tekrealm.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010825164512.A48089@freebsd.tekrealm.net>; from elitetek@tekrealm.net on Sat, Aug 25, 2001 at 04:45:12PM -0700 X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-10 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 25 Aug 2001 at 16:45:12 -0700, Andrew Stuart wrote: > On Fri, 24 Aug 2001 at 15:47:09 +0200, Mikko Tyolajarvi wrote: > > In local.freebsd.questions you write: > > > > >I've been testing out an install of vlc with an old DVD demo disc a friend of > > >mine got with his computer several years ago (yes, I have no other DVDs!). > > > > >Every time I try to open the disc, I get the message "Virtual timer expired", > > >and the program exits. > > > > => SIGVTALRM > > > > >Is this a problem with vlc, or is it some sort of hard-coded time limit on the > > >demo DVD itself? > > > > Most likely a vlc problem. A friend has the same problem on his > > dual-cpu box. Vlc works for me, sort of. > > > > $.02, > > /Mikko > > -- > > Just my $.02, I started having this problem also, and i am pretty sure > it has nothing to do with vlc itself. My problem started after i decided > to blow away my laptop HDD, and install a fresh copy of 4.3 on there, > cvsup'd and started building ports. Since this I get the same error. > Prior to this, i was running 4.3-stable and vlc ran fine (on the same > laptop). > > I am hoping to prove this buy doing the same to one of my desktops, to > see if the same problem occurs, and see what might have changed between > the configurations to cause this. BTW: my other 2 box's that are running > it correctly. both are 4.3 (various versions of -stable) and are running > the latest version of vlc (from ports) > > -- > Andrew > Just to conferm, I just finished make world/kernel installs on two of my other prior working machines with vlc. Once i rebooted, vlc died.. defiently a problem with something that was changed in -stable here of late. maybe i will get some time later on to try and see if i can figure it out. anyways, from what i can tell 3 out of 3 -stable box's now dont work with vlc. -- Andrew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message