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JimW

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Registered: 2015-12-08

Posts: 400

VLC not shutting down

I don't remember seeing this on here anywhere.
When I play a movie using VLC I can close the window, but VLC is still running in the taskbar.
Right clicking on it and selecting quit does not help.
Left clicking to open and then exiting does not help.
This prevents the running of another instance of VLC.
I have to get the pid and "kill -9" to get rid of it. Plain "kill" will not work. Any suggestions?
Oh, and I don't think it happens every time, but quite frequently.

inxi -F attached if it will help.

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tekkaman

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Registered: 2020-02-13

Posts: 12

Re: VLC not shutting down

That happens to me as well after crashing when playing h264 files. So far I didn't have much help on my topic. Kodi also doesn't work too well either and doesn't play dvd's for some reason. I found this player: http://exmplayer.sourceforge.net/ Seems to play most files fine except dvd's . I use VLC for dvd's which is the one of the formats it can play without crashing. I at first thought it might be compatibility issues with my ati hd4670 card but it seems you're using intel and have the same problem. I wonder what causes it.

Last edited by tekkaman (2020-03-18 05:19)

q4osteam

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Registered: 2015-12-06

Posts: 4,230

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Re: VLC not shutting down

You could try to cleanup Vlc user configuration, so backup and remove user files:
$ rm -rf $HOME/.config/vlc
$ rm -rf $HOME/.configtde/vlc
$ rm -rf $HOME/.configkde/vlc
and post back a result.

tekkaman

Member

Registered: 2020-02-13

Posts: 12

Re: VLC not shutting down

Still crashes after a few seconds of playback of a h264 file. The audio still plays but the programs crashes and you have to kill it to be able to open it again. I can trigger it each time with h264 files. Old divx or xvid formats, or audio files don't make it crash. EXmplayer doesn't crashes but it's a slightly old program from 2015. Smplayer has the same problem with h264 files.

inxi

System:
  Host: jan-pc Kernel: 4.19.0-8-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 Console: tty 2
  Distro: Q4OS 3.10.3-n1
Machine:
  Type: Desktop Mobo: Gigabyte model: 970A-DS3P v: x.x serial: N/A
  BIOS: American Megatrends v: FD date: 02/26/2016
CPU:
  Topology: Quad Core model: AMD Phenom II X4 910e bits: 64 type: MCP
  L2 cache: 2048 KiB
  Speed: 1400 MHz min/max: 800/2600 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1400 2: 800
  3: 800 4: 800
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD RV730 XT [Radeon HD 4670] driver: radeon v: kernel
  Display: server: X.org 1.20.4 driver: radeon tty: 79x28
  Message: Advanced graphics data unavailable in console for root.
Audio:
  Device-1: AMD RV710/730 HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 4000 series]
  driver: snd_hda_intel
  Device-2: C-Media CMI8738/CMI8768 PCI Audio driver: snd_cmipci
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.19.0-8-amd64
Network:
  Device-1: Intel 82573L Gigabit Ethernet driver: e1000e
  IF: enp3s0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: 6c:b3:11:3f:0e:c0
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 1.52 TiB used: 593.85 GiB (38.2%)
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Western Digital model: WD6400AAKS-75A7B0
  size: 596.17 GiB
  ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Western Digital model: WD1000CHTZ-04JCPV0
  size: 931.51 GiB
  ID-3: /dev/sdc type: USB vendor: Lexar model: USB Flash Drive
  size: 28.92 GiB
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 105.69 GiB used: 17.84 GiB (16.9%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda3
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 26.5 C mobo: N/A gpu: radeon temp: 37 C
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
  Processes: 171 Uptime: 7h 30m Memory: 7.77 GiB used: 917.6 MiB (11.5%)
  Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Shell: bash inxi: 3.0.32

Last edited by tekkaman (2020-03-18 15:59)