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Hello. using pclinuxos. Down load videos from youtube, then convert to mp3. when i try to convert mutli videos I get this message.The output file already exists. If recording continues, the file will be overridden and its content will be lost. If I press "keep existing file" The message pops up again, and again, and again, ..... I have to close the program to proceed. so I have to do one at a time. Then it just stared to work correctly. But dont know what i did, Then I did updates through synaptic and the problems back. I tried removing then reinstalling through synaptic but to no avail. Thanks.

You're trying to convert all videos to the same file name. Of course, you get an overwrite warning.

I get this same error message even when I am converting a single file. I thought the new version 3.0.11.1 would fix this.

Edit: Command-L fixed this.

Same issue here...just updated VLC to 3.0.11 on my Win 10 and Win 7 machines. When converting either multiple files (and not providing a file name, just selecting the directory) or when just trying a single file, VLC gets stuck in a loop, with the same notification to overwrite or keep existing (after it completes the list of items to convert, in the case of multiple items, or after a single pass if only one file is specified), and does write the converted files to the proper location...force quitting the app is the only way to exit... It seems to me it should stop after a conversion (or list) is completed.

The overwrite message is printed if the output file already exists, as pretty much every other app does.

In fact, this very forum is not short on people complaining that VLC overwrote files because the dialog was not scary enough to deter them: so sorry but the dialog is not going away.

Most applications ask if a file that will be generated already exists; and it does so before beginning to generate that file. The behavior I am experiencing is as follows:

1) No output file exists.
2) I start to convert a file, specifying the output file (which does not exist).
3) When the conversion completes, I am presented a message asking if I want to replace or keep the existing file.
4) Irrespective of how I answer that question, the entire process begins again, at the end of which GOTO 3.

This is an infinite loop and, as reported above, the only way to terminate it is to kill the process. I experience this irrespective of the type of conversion I am doing (although I have not tried every possible input and out type).

VLC v3.0.11

Most applications ask if a file that will be generated already exists; and it does so before beginning to generate that file.

And that's what VLC does. Read the code if you won't believe me.

Thank you for your kind correction. But that does not address the issue of the infinite loop. It is quite a bother, at least for me, to wait for a 10-minute conversion to finish only to then be asked if I want to keep the existing file (which does not exist) and then to find that irrespective of what I answer, another 10-minute conversion begins, ad infinitum. Thanks again.

So don't enable the loop?

Thank you for the helpful suggestion. I did not realize that the "loop" button on on the GUI was turned on. May I suggest that the Convert function ignore this setting, as it makes no sense (that I can discern) to loop a conversion.