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[mike.vc]

I have a Linux PC with OS Debian Buster 4.19.37-5+deb10u2 installed on a Ryzen 5 2600 CPU with 16GB of memory and a GTX1050Ti graphics card. I installed MC 25.0.50 (amd 64) on the Linux PC and I registered the software and it recognizes all of my media content on my drives. When I attempt the play a video file with formats (.mov, .mpg, .avi and .m4v) they all hang to MC25 player and I can only reboot my PC to regain control over my system.

I do have a firewall running so is there any ports which need to be open for the software to run. When I run MC25 from a terminal I receive the following error: "error binding client socket 98" before I do anything with the program.

I have also confirmed I belong to the following Linux groups: sudo, adm, video, audio.

I am not sure how to troubleshoot this problem since it hangs my OS and I can't look at or save any log files. I can only recover by rebooting.

[Awesome Donkey]

You might want to try updating to the latest build, which is 25.0.92.

https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,121801.0.html

[mike.vc]

I upgraded to MC 25.0.92 and MC25 still hangs on video play. When starting from a terminal I will see "segmentation fault" return when the video hangs. Here is a sample log file from the video hang event.

[bob]

The error binding to socket is meaningless.

If your machine is using the nouveau X server video you will get poor results.
You should install the manufacturers driver and try again.

[mike.vc]

I don't see the point in changing video drivers. I have two other programs that will play all of my videos on my local drives with no problems. I can use KDE's Dragon Player or Kodi. I just can't see why MC25 can't do the same on my Linux PC.

[JimH]

I don't see the point in changing video drivers. I have two other programs that will play all of my videos on my local drives with no problems. I can use KDE's Dragon Player or Kodi. I just can't see why MC25 can't do the same on my Linux PC.

That's just how drivers work.  Try the suggestion.

[Awesome Donkey]

If you're using a Nvidia 10XX series Pascal card on a Linux distro (or even an older 900 series GPU and newer), you should be using the proprietary Nvidia driver and not the open-source Nouveau driver, especially if you're intending to watch video. Nouveau barely supports the 10 series of GPUs with only the bare minimum working so it's not surprising MC25 can't correctly playback videos without it. Open-source Nvidia support on Linux is notoriously bad, since Nvidia doesn't exactly support the community, unlike AMD. Nouveau developers basically have to reverse engineer the support for newer GPUs, which only can go so far unless Nvidia releases signed firmware to get basic support working in the first place (which as far as I know hasn't happened for the 20XX series of GPUs yet). And even today, there's still no reclocking support for 900 series GPUs which are, what, nearly 5 years old now?

Yes, I know other media player apps will play the video files, but MC needs hardware acceleration to playback video, which is pretty much lacking with Nouveau. So there is indeed a point in changing video drivers, since Nouveau is pretty sub-par for newer Nvidia GPUs.

Some info here: https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-install-nvidia-driver-on-debian-10-buster-linux
And more here: https://www.reddit.com/r/debian/comments/cc7n6v/how_to_install_nvidia_drivers_in_debian_10/

I'd do the first part, enable the non-free repo (you can do this in the Software & Updates app, just check the box for non-free) then use nvidia-detect and follow its recommendation (likely installing nvidia-driver).

[mike.vc]

Thank you for guiding me in the right direction. I haven't used Linux for the past 15 years and just got back into to it with my new PC. Linux has vastly improved over these years. I installed the Nvidia driver and all my videos now play on the latest Linux MC25 release. Thanks again for your help.