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Hello all. I use VLC 3.0.3 on a Dell Optiplex 790 Intel i7, 4 gigs RAM, Debian Stretch

Lately I have been reading up and trying to implement PulseAudio server to stream audio to devices on my LAN

In the process, somehow VLC has gotten borked.

I am experiencing long startup times, lots of startup errors, no ML.xspf formed.

Before, VLC playing never loaded more than 5% cpu, now just sitting there idle, 12-15%.
I tried starting vlc from terminal, to see error messages.

An endless stream of:

And many lines :
Plus many:

My brain is glue from reading so many wikis, tutorials, how tos....I hope someone here canhelp me find out what needs fixed.

Thanks

It's difficult to suggest fix options without knowing exactly what you changed during your attempts to implement a PulseAudio server.

Did you replace any native libraries such as libopenmpt or perhaps libraries that depend on libopenmpt or ones that libopenmpt depends on?

Please mark this [SOLVED]

I stumbled onto some "temporary" ml.xspf files (with trailing alphanumerics) in
I deleted them, and VLC instantly started behaving normally. )

I don't know how or why this occurred, but deleting those files certainly fixed my issue

Good to know that fixed your issue!
Any chance you saw the creation timestamp of those files? That might narrow down what caused them to be created...

I jumped the gun and simply deleted them. But thanks for sharing that technique. I'll have to remember it.