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Disabling crash reporting?
Posted: 10 May 2009 08:23
by spitfire24
I'm using VLC .9.9a for OSX and I need it to continuously play a play list (24/7). However, occasionally VLC will crash. I have a pscript set to automatically restart VLC and start the play list again. However, instead of playing the video the crash reporting dialog comes up. For my purposes, this isn't acceptable. A quick search of the forums shows one old post that says you can't disable crash reporting. Is there a way to work around this though? For example, is there a file created on a crash that I can lock/rename/delete before relaunching VLC so that it won't show the crash reporting dialog? Any help here would be greatly appreciated.
Re: Disabling crash reporting?
Posted: 12 May 2009 07:21
by spitfire24
Just going to share my solution in case anyone else needs to know this for the future.
In OSX, crash logs are stored to ~/Library/Logs/CrashReporter
I made this directory read only, so that VLC could not write a crash report to it. So VLC can't write a crash log and thus does not know it has crashed upon relaunch. Note that this isn't the best solution (other applications can't write crash logs either). However, it works for my purposes. My recommendation to others would be write some type of script to delete the VLC crash logs if any are present. Then you can leave the folder as read/write access.
Re: Disabling crash reporting?
Posted: 16 Sep 2009 08:47
by Eagle_Erwin
I use VLC Media Player 1.0.1 on Windows, and I have the same problem. I use a scheduled task to start VLC, and it hangs on the message about crash reporting untill I click Yes or No.
Is there already a possibility to disable (or enable) the crash reporting, so I won't ask every time after a crash?
Re: Disabling crash reporting?
Posted: 21 Jun 2010 02:36
by fralacos
Hello, this may work:
http://wiki.videolan.org/Windows_servic ... vice_Hangs
I've been looking for this myself for hours, and i knew i saw it somewhere ... there it is!!!. I like to use my first post in this forums to say thank you to the devs for such a great piece of software... so, Thank you!
Re: Disabling crash reporting?
Posted: 03 Sep 2011 04:33
by xyen2001
I have a work around here:
1. delete %appdata%\vlc\crashdump
2. make a folder called "crashdump"
This prevent vlc from reading "crashdump" file and making a new one.
Re: Disabling crash reporting?
Posted: 18 Oct 2011 02:23
by curi