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Hello, I am trying to create a player which will play an endless slideshow of both images and videos. It should run for an unlimited time, therefore, memory usage is important to me. I would like to ask what is the correct way to free memory after playing media. According to https://wiki.videolan.or...

The issue seems to have been caused by one of the pictures being too large (~8K), therefore the screen froze as VLC tried to load it and after 10 seconds it just continued with the next one. Solved by limiting picture resolution, which is not ideal but is good enough in my usecase.

Took some time to figure out how to view the vlc log using python-vlc bindings. Here are the last few hundred lines from the log I got: https://pastebin.com/zsNyArcv The numbers represent when the next `play` call was made (1 through 8 ). To my untrained eye it seems like it just stopped without any...

There's nothing relevant in journalctl. I'm not sure how to view VLC logs when running the python-vlc bindings. Looked into the documentation and couldn't find anything. Do you have any specific logs in mind?

I am trying to create a slideshow style viewer which will display videos and images. However, when testing my approach (code below) the VLC randomly freezes on `self.mediaplayer.set_media(self.media)` in the `Player.play` method. Specifically using the trace module it seems to hang on line 331 in th...