Pi3 running vlc media player freeze issue [now obsolete]

[MuppetMikey]

I am running raspbian with vlc media player, and when I go to make a video full screen it freezes up, the audio still plays... however if I window the player it will play the videos just fine.. if I resize that window larger it starts to freeze up again .. any help would be great.. I'm not sure what information you need to see , just let me know and I can get it for you..

side information.. I am running the videos off a ssd drive I have plugged into the usb.. could my issue be a hard drive issue?

and on a side note , what is the little red thermometer mean on it, it showed up after a few minutes of playing a video?

[wh7qq]

side information.. I am running the videos off a ssd drive I have plugged into the usb.. could my issue be a hard drive issue?
and on a side note , what is the little red thermometer mean on it, it showed up after a few minutes of playing a video?

I run an ssd off the USB port of my RPi3 with no problems. Most of them are not very power hungry, drawing less than 10 ma, but if in doubt, run it from a USB port extender with a separate power supply. Also, the recommended minimum supply for the 3 is 2.5Amps.

The red thermometer may explain your problem. It indicates an over-temp condition and if it lasts very long, the RPi firmware will throttle down the cpu speed which may take it below the ability of vlc to refresh its video feed. A heat-sink/fan combination may cool off the cpu enough to continue to operate at full screen if you can stand the fan noise. Once in a while, I see the thermometer come up on my display...usually from a web page that uses a lot of java script. When I kill the web page, it cools down right away. BTW, you can see the temperature of your cpu by using

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vcgencmd measure_temp

from the command line.

[MuppetMikey]

i have the 2.5 power supply.. i did notice the cpu monitor at the top was running at 85% or so when playing the videos windowed.. it shot up to 98% when i tried to enlarge it.. maby kodi is a better option..

i have the heat sinks installed as well.. no fan though what i am trying to go for is a media center with no moving parts to fail.. i am almost there..

[fruitoftheloom]

I am running raspbian with vlc media player, and when I go to make a video full screen it freezes up, the audio still plays... however if I window the player it will play the videos just fine.. if I resize that window larger it starts to freeze up again .. any help would be great.. I'm not sure what information you need to see , just let me know and I can get it for you..

side information.. I am running the videos off a ssd drive I have plugged into the usb.. could my issue be a hard drive issue?

and on a side note , what is the little red thermometer mean on it, it showed up after a few minutes of playing a video?

Did you compile VLC with Hardware Acceleration ??

If not then maybe omxplayergui (which is part of kweb suite) would suffice instead:

viewtopic.php?f=66&t=40860

[MuppetMikey]

I am running raspbian with vlc media player, and when I go to make a video full screen it freezes up, the audio still plays... however if I window the player it will play the videos just fine.. if I resize that window larger it starts to freeze up again .. any help would be great.. I'm not sure what information you need to see , just let me know and I can get it for you..

side information.. I am running the videos off a ssd drive I have plugged into the usb.. could my issue be a hard drive issue?

and on a side note , what is the little red thermometer mean on it, it showed up after a few minutes of playing a video?

Did you compile VLC with Hardware Acceleration ??

If not then maybe omxplayergui (which is part of kweb suite) would suffice instead:

viewtopic.php?f=66&t=40860

can I use apt-get to get this omxplayer .. I have very limited knowledge with what I am doing, but I am learning as I go..

[fruitoftheloom]

i have the 2.5 power supply.. i did notice the cpu monitor at the top was running at 85% or so when playing the videos windowed.. it shot up to 98% when i tried to enlarge it.. maby kodi is a better option..

i have the heat sinks installed as well.. no fan though what i am trying to go for is a media center with no moving parts to fail.. i am almost there..

Warnings: https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentati ... g-icons.md

[fruitoftheloom]

I am running raspbian with vlc media player, and when I go to make a video full screen it freezes up, the audio still plays... however if I window the player it will play the videos just fine.. if I resize that window larger it starts to freeze up again .. any help would be great.. I'm not sure what information you need to see , just let me know and I can get it for you..

side information.. I am running the videos off a ssd drive I have plugged into the usb.. could my issue be a hard drive issue?

and on a side note , what is the little red thermometer mean on it, it showed up after a few minutes of playing a video?

Did you compile VLC with Hardware Acceleration ??

If not then maybe omxplayergui (which is part of kweb suite) would suffice instead:

viewtopic.php?f=66&t=40860

can I use apt-get to get this omxplayer .. I have very limited knowledge with what I am doing, but I am learning as I go..

You just follow the instructions it is quite straightforward, there is also a PDF Manual..

[MuppetMikey]

Thanks for the help .. I will follow the directions, and see what it does.. I always get nervous trying new things beyond what I know, but its how we learn.