I use Ubuntu 18.04. I configured VLC to inhibit screensaver while playing. This works fine initially, but after a few suspend / resume cycles it breaks: after watching a video in fullscreen for 5 minutes the screen goes blank. Any help to debug this issue is appreciated.
VLC 2.0.8.
Gibberish is in the title bar, the status bar, the play list. It comes from the "Title" metadata of the video.
There are some options to set encoding for subtitles, but none that I know of for this metadata.