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I'm on XP32 SP3, all the latest updates, on a decent machine. When I close the video either at the end or part way through, 80% of the time it hangs, I get a white screen, then windows says it's crashed and I send an error report. I can't find anything in common with the videos, they're all sorts, short and long, avi, mp4, mkv. I considered turning on the debug logging but since it crashes I don't know if it will write anything to a log file. The previous version, I presume 1.0, worked fine.

I don't know if this is a request for help or a bug report. If anyone else finds this post, so if it's common it can be fixed.

Happens with all video output modules?
http://wiki.videolan.org/WindowsFAQ-1.1 ... _output.3F

I don't think it's that, because video all plays fine, it's just when I close the video it crashes. I'll give that a go though and report back, thanks

Unfortunately that didn't help. I think it's a bug, rather than a problem with my computer or a setting.

Try 1.1.1

Oooh, that's new. I'll try it, thanks

Edit - a quick test says this one seems better, but it's intermittent anyway. I'll post again if the issue hasn't been fixed.

I'm on 1.1.5 and it's still happening, but i've narrowed down the situations it occurs in.

I'm on XP32, SP3, nVidia video card. I have a Samsung LCD monitor on the DVI port, and I have a Samsung LCD TV on the VGA port. When any video, any format, finishes playing when full screen on the TV VLC hangs with a white screen 70% of the time. When it's playing on the primary monitor it usually finishes ok.

This seems like a bug to me. Does anyone else get this same thing when using a secondary monitor?

Im getting crashes like this on 1.1.5 ... ever since the 'Christmas hat' upgrade.
Win 7 32 bit full screen on my second monitor... when movie ends or sometimes when I just move the mouse VLC crashes

tyrellcorp: can you replicate the crash? If so, do you know how to use gdb?

sorry, I don't know how to use gbd... To replicate I just need to watch a movie full screen on my second monitor. It doesn't crash immediately... But if I watch something for any period of time and then wiggle the mouse or click it just kicks me out of vlc. It also happened when the film ended last night. When restarting I get a message saying vlc has crashed and I submitted the report. I have gone back to the .4 version now so ill see if the problem remains. Thanks

I know that question wasn't for me, but i'll answer anyway. I can't use gdb, but i'm a developer so I could probably work it out if I knew what I was trying to achieve and had a guide.

You have to download+install gdb. Usually the easies way is to use TDM’s GCC/MinGW32 Builds
http://coliena.com/blog/2010/02/using-gdb-on-windows/

then start vlc.exe with gdb from shell (change directory if needed)
and type run there. Replicate the procedure that makes VLC crash and see if gdb also detects that. After that type bt to gdb and it should print messages. You can get better messages with VLC debug builds which can be found from http://nightlies.videolan.org/build/win32/?C=M;O=D (trunks are 1.2.0 and branches are 1.1.x)

I'll do that after Christmas and report back

No rush.

I installed GDB 6.3.2 (as the 7.1 version you linked to isn't a valid win32 application). I run gdb, then ran vlc. The process started, I could see it in the task list, but no gui ever appeared. Do you have any more gdb tips?

Did you wait long enough ? gdb slows down vlc a lot.

Ah, I had to wait and hit enter a couple of times. I'll try and reproduce the problem in a day or two when i'm back at my main PC, thanks.

I tried to reproduce it from within gdb on the nightly build, but I couldn't get it to fail. I'll have a go with the current production version in the next few days.

This "white screen hang" (nonresponsive to keyboard or mouse, white screen, fullscreen OR 80% window size, on secondary monitor), at end of playback is still happening, ever since 1.0.x, continuing with 1.1.8.
HP ZE2315US laptop, 1GB RAM, 1.8GHz Sempron, ATI Radeon Express 200M graphics(1024x768). XP SP3, with video playing on external 1680x1050 monitor on the SVGA port.
My application plays 20-30 videos per day. The "hang" occurs nearly every day, sometimes between videos, sometimes at the end of playlist. It's difficult to replicate, but it does rarely (3%) happen the next time I play the same playlist.
Now that I've read the above posting about using gdb to analyze the hang, I'll try it next.

REQUEST: pointers to further info or scripts which could help me report useful information would be appreciated.

Addendum: I've noticed that when playback terminates at the end of video file, or if I delete an entry from the playlist while it's playing, the video frame flashes white for a short time (1 or 2 frames), just before the playback video window is resized to the idle "VLC media player". When the "hang" occurs, it happens at that precise moment, in "white."

(Not complaining, just noting that the full-frame long-duration (two frame times?) white flash happens 3-5% of the time just after STOP is pressed, and before video starts when PLAY is pressed. (Test setup: Play, then maximize window using the Maximize button (NOT "fullscreen"), then stop. Repeated play, view, stop of the same video file, will occasionally show the flashing. Pause doesn't flash. Partial frame 1-frame-time white flashes happen 50% of the time.)

I'm still experiencing it too. I stopped using VLC as much, mostly because i'm using the PS3 and a different TV, but on the odd occasion I use VLC it still hangs like this too.