VLC hangs

GlitchyDot

GlitchyDot

Im running VLC as a video player and VLC started to hang-up a lot when im trying to open directory or a file and now it does not show me other directories and i have to use kill -9 command to get rid of it.
Any ideas where to look for an issue ?
Thank You.
 
Big directories perhaps? It might take a while to process those. Anyway, try starting vlc from the command line, see if there's any useful information being printed. Also try opening a file with vlc from the command line directly, does that work?
 
In AndroidTV it hangs when there are heavy videos and must generate the thumbnails. Try turning this feature off on PC.
 
SirDice said:
Big directories perhaps? It might take a while to process those. Anyway, try starting vlc from the command line, see if there's any useful information being printed. Also try opening a file with vlc from the command line directly, does that work?
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Never had this issue before .. i have about 1TB of videos in few directories and never was an issue, only rescently this issue started to apear.
If i start VLC trough terminal - no issues are shown.
If i open directory "/" only ?usr and another is shown, sometimes it shows me more ... pc crashed for some reasons, not related to vlc, restarted - vlc shows all dirs.

the3ajm said:
I believe VLC also had a debug windows that can produce its own logs for you to check.
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This must be enabled trough settings? Ive seen there something, enabled it but dont see any logs anywhere.
 
Hmm... and if you have exceeded any file limits on the system. What pkg info -D vlc tells you.
On the other hand, reproduce the error and look for any Qt errors in the last few lines:
tail -40 ~/.xsession-errors
 
CuatroTorres said:
Hmm... and if you have exceeded any file limits on the system. What pkg info -D vlc tells you.
On the other hand, reproduce the error and look for any Qt errors in the last few lines:
tail -40 ~/.xsession-errors
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pkg info -D vlc - vlc-3.0.18_5,4

And i dont have .xsession-errors.
I would like to get one - how can i create it ?
 
I've had VLC hang when the USB HDD with movies is unreliable. I'd mount the stick, then use VLC's File->Open, try to navigate to the HDD - only to discover that the HDD is not mounted properly. I checked the HDD on Windows - similar problem. I'm in the middle of moving my movie collection to SSD's that have a more reliable USB plug :/ Those SSDs work MUCH better. I also suspect the USB HDD may have been going bad for a while, so it's about time to move my collection to a better storage location.
 
astyle said:
I've had VLC hang when the USB HDD with movies is unreliable. I'd mount the stick, then use VLC's File->Open, try to navigate to the HDD - only to discover that the HDD is not mounted properly. I checked the HDD on Windows - similar problem. I'm in the middle of moving my movie collection to SSD's that have a more reliable USB plug :/ Those SSDs work MUCH better. I also suspect the USB HDD may have been going bad for a while, so it's about time to move my collection to a better storage location.
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It does make sense.
I do have 4TB HDD and i think its going bad as it behaves in a strange way i will need try to connect HDD and try to load a movie/music from my nvme drive and see if HDD behaviour plays with VLC behaviour even if im not loading anything from HDD to VLC.
 
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