I’m running Ubuntu-Mate 16.04 on a AMD 64bit with AMD/ATI RV730/M96 Mobility Radeon HD 4650/5165 graphics.
VLC 2.2-2.5 keeps crashing when I try to play a video.
No other player has this problem. Help.
By crashing I mean; the screen goes black and I can’t get to a Virtual Console. I have to hold down the power button to reboot.
But, why doesn’t any other players (SMPlayer, etc) suffer from the same problem??
I cannot answer that, try changing your software sources download loaction and updating again + re-installing VLC from the new repos!.
You probably installed a package that uses ffmpeg instead of libav.
Check:
apt-cache show ffmpeg
ffmpeg and libav do not play nice together.
AFAIK everything is transitioning to ffmpeg. VLC version 3.0 will use ffmpeg. VLC version 2.x uses libav.