Comment by dmurray
22 days ago
I didn't get to dig much further into it, but for those of you who suggested ideas:
- not always the same frame. The first three failures were within seconds of each other, possibly the same frame. I tried again the next night and it got through that part of the video, but crashed a minute later - I was able to play the video using a different app (Ubuntu's built-in Videos app from an old Ubuntu release, maybe 20.04)
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VLC failed on other videos from the same source.
Ubuntu's default player worked. I've rarely used it.
Some bug in VLC with whatever codec these use, and then some system level bug allowing that to kill the whole machine.
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