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When I pause a video to much VLC freezes and I then have to close the video and open it back up again. Any ideas on what I can do to avoid this.

Please open Tools -> Messages (set Verbosity to 2) before you start the playback, and then paste the full resulting log here or on Pastebin.com or on Justpaste.it if it's too long.

It didn't crash this time but

https://justpaste.it/ahzb3

What is drive H: ? A network drive ? An USB drive ?
Is it any better if you're playing the file from your local drive where the OS is installed ?

What is drive H: ? A network drive ? An USB drive ?
Is it any better if you're playing the file from your local drive where the OS is installed ?

an external hard drive. It's where the video file I watched was

So I ask again: is it any better if you're playing the file from your local drive where the OS is installed ?

So I ask again: is it any better if you're playing the file from your local drive where the OS is installed ?

I wouldn't know. Most of my video files are on external hard drives

Can you try ?

I copied and pasted a video to my desktop and played it (also messed around with it a little.) Here is the result

https://justpaste.it/cysep

So F: is a local drive ? If so, does it freeze as well ?

So F: is a local drive ? If so, does it freeze as well ?

The drive doesn't freeze

Edit: For what it's worth I started having problem with vlc when I got a new computer and had to reinstall it on it.

Bad wording, the question should have been: If so, does VLC freeze as well ?

I mentioned VLC freezing

Is F: a local drive or a network drive or an USB drive ?
If F: is a local drive then does VLC freeze as well when you pause a video ?

Is F: a local drive or a network drive or an USB drive ?
If F: is a local drive then does VLC freeze as well when you pause a video ?

When I got my new pc F drive seems to work in unison with c drive but I coudn't tell you the details. it's not usb though I can tell you that much.
Vlc does freeze AFTER pausing but only SOMETIMES

Edit: For what it's worth I started having problem with vlc when I got a new computer and had to reinstall it on it.

So that sounds like a system problem.

When I got my new pc F drive seems to work in unison with c drive but I coudn't tell you the details. it's not usb though I can tell you that much.
Vlc does freeze AFTER pausing but only SOMETIMES

Maybe a RAID configuration ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID

And one of the drives is going into sleep/parking mode for some reason ?
Again, to me it's a system issue.

Edit: For what it's worth I started having problem with vlc when I got a new computer and had to reinstall it on it.

So that sounds like a system problem.

When I got my new pc F drive seems to work in unison with c drive but I coudn't tell you the details. it's not usb though I can tell you that much.
Vlc does freeze AFTER pausing but only SOMETIMES

Maybe a RAID configuration ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID

And one of the drives is going into sleep/parking mode for some reason ?
Again, to me it's a system issue.

I don't suppose you can give me advice on said system issue?

I am running windows 11, and VLC is likely installed to my C drive (system partition), even though you may have media files on external drives