VLC slow to start when not launched from interactive shell

[jamesc]

Hi,

I'm seeing problems that, if I launch VLC (command line) via e.g. cron in to a screen, it takes 10-15 seconds to start, hanging at:

[00000001] main private debug: checking builtin modules
[00000001] main private debug: checking plugin modules
[00000001] main private debug: loading plugins cache file /home/XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX/.vlc/cache/plugins-04081e.dat
[00000001] main private debug: recursively browsing `/usr/lib64/vlc'
[00000001] main private debug: module bank initialized, found 243 modules
--------- HANGS HERE ------------------
[00000001] main private debug: opening config file /home/XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX/.vlc/vlcrc
[00000001] main private warning: config file /home/XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX/.vlc/vlcrc does not exist yet

Once it's past the hang, it loads quickly. Note, if I launch vlc with the same command from an SSH session it doesn't exhibit this behaviour, which makes me think that one of the modules doesn't like being launched in this method, all my searching is to no avail, the above output is from -vvv

Any help would be appreciated

Thanks,

James

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

VLC 0.8.6 is not supported anymore.