VLCj crashes on JDK 8 + Ubuntu

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David George

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Oct 9, 2014, 5:20:33 PM10/9/14
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Crash when playing videos on Java8 64 bit and Ubuntu

libc.so.6+0x12d768]  _IO_file_underflow

David George

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Oct 9, 2014, 5:22:39 PM10/9/14
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This is a Linux + JVM issue involving the VLC LUA feature. It can be fixed by disabling LUA, for example

mv /usr/lib/vlc/lua /usr/lib/luax

However this will disable YouTube playback.

It can also be fixed using an alternative Java release, for exampe java 1.6
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