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Hi all, For some time I have been unable to play .m3u playlists in VLC 3.0.11 - even ones that are created by adding a bunch of tracks to the VLC playlist and going "Save Playlist to F ile..." When attempting to open such a file I get an error popup which says Your input can't be opened: V...

Hi all, I'm generally very happy with my home cinema set-up, except for one minor niggle; due to space constraints I need to use a "phantom centre" channel, which when enabled turns off the centre channel level control on my amplifier. But this makes the dialogue a little too low compared ...

Thanks for confirming unidan!

I'll answer that myself: # mv /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/vlc/plugins/meta_engine/libtaglib_plugin.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/vlc/plugins/meta_engine/libtaglib_plugin.so.disabled Crude but effective; VLC seems to work just fine without it, and I'm no longer seeing any O_RDWR events on the video file...

Ok, so is there any way to remove or disable "meta reader", short of building VLC with --disable-taglib?

TagLib opens files for writing, falling back to read-only mode only if the earlier fails. Ah, that must be it - thank you very much Rémi! All is forgiven, and I'm sorry if I got a bit grumpy there ;) I can see both a "reader" and a "writer" listed in the plugins; is there any wa...

Could it have something to do with the fact that I'm queuing up multiple files? Or some module, like subtitles, or metadata? Any suggestions how I could narrow things down further? This is a stock install of VLC 3.0.8 so I don't think it's unique to the two systems I've tested on... On a recent Lin...

Unfortunately I must get to the bottom of this, and do not have the option of walking away. Trust me, I can think of many many things I would rather do than argue with arrogant developers. I actually, genuinely , wish that Rémi had been right and some other component was causing this behaviour - I a...

Look if you don't believe me, you can check strace -f vlc --loop video_one.mp4 video_two.mp4 for yourself that it does open the files for writing.

This isn't a question about inotify - it is a question about VLC. But thanks for bringing up strace; I'm no expert on its usage but is seems VLC spawns a thread, which spawns another thread, which in turn does open the video file RDWR: $ strace -f vlc --loop /home/station/share/film_one.mp4 /home/st...

I'm not saying you're wrong (of course you aren't) - I am asking for help. I mean I can actually see the IN_CLOSE_WRITE events happening right there, so for some reason they are being triggered when VLC moves from one file to the next. Since nothing else is touching those files...

Ok, then how come I see this in syslog (when tracing incrond): ... Sep 7 01:10:20 panorama incrond[4432]: PATH (/home/station/films) FILE (film_one.mp4) EVENT (IN_CLOSE_WRITE) Sep 7 01:10:20 panorama incrond[4432]: (root) CMD (film_one.mp4) Sep 7 01:10:20 panorama launch.sh[22793]: libva info: VA-AP...

I have a simple bash script which launches VLC with a playlist of files pulled from a particular directory. These files can change at any time, so I'm watching the directory with inotify/incrond in order to trigger a restart of my script when this happens. The problem is, it turns out VLC itself ope...