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I have a custom digital signage project that runs under Ubuntu 17.10. It queries a mysql database on a server and decides what movies to play on this device and then adds them to the playlist using the rc interface. The VLC player is involved programatically as: /usr/bin/vlc --fullscreen --loop --no-embedded-video --video-on-top --no-video-title-show --rc-host 127.0.0.1:1234 --extraintf rc. On Ubuntu this works OK but on Lubuntu it cycles through the playlist several times and then just stops in the middle of a movie! If I connect with TCP and ask it what it is doing (with the status command) it says it is playing one of the files but the screen is frozen and it isn't. Any insight appreciated.

Look at the VLC verbose logs.

Excellent idea... I added --logfile vlc.log --logmode text --log-verbose -1 but alas no log file is created but then I changed it to --verbose=2 --file-logging --logfile=vlc-log.txt and it is logging a lot of info so I am now just waiting for it to stop doing anything