On 25 October 2012 20:45, Gareth France <gareth.fra...@gmail.com> wrote: > I use VLC regularly and have noticed it hasn't been behaving itself this > week. It's a 12.04 install and has been working fine for months.
Have you tried logging on as a different user? Make a temp user if necessary to try it, it is often useful to have a spare user for this sort of thing. That will tell you if it is some settings messed up in your normal login or a problem with vlc. Colin > > Loading a whole directory in random play works for 1 or 2 files then at the > end of a file it will just stop. Skipping tracks or pushing stop does > nothing. Quitting closes the window but as you can see in the screenshot the > icon stays in the top bar. Loading VLC again adds another process and > another icon to the bar. The menu on each icon works but requesting quit > does nothing. > > As you can see from the second attached file system monitor is unusable, it > simply greys out for 30 seconds, releases for about 5 and then greys out > again. Look at the insane memory usage of the top VLC entry. What's going on > here? > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ > -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
