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Date:      Sun, 26 Aug 2001 02:57:04 -0700
From:      Andrew Stuart <elitetek@tekrealm.net>
To:        Mikko Tyolajarvi <mikko@dynas.se>
Cc:        conrads@home.com, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: vlc: Virtual timer expired
Message-ID:  <20010826025704.A53201@freebsd.tekrealm.net>
In-Reply-To: <20010825164512.A48089@freebsd.tekrealm.net>; from elitetek@tekrealm.net on Sat, Aug 25, 2001 at 04:45:12PM -0700
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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

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