VLC 2.1.0 gets stuck in loop - have to kill process

[ephracis]

I have noticed since I upgraded VLC to version 2.1.0 that is sort of "hangs" from time to time.

What happens is that the picture freezes and the audio jumps back about 3-4 seconds, then the audio gets stuck in this loop. I can close the window but the audio continues to play. If I kill the process the audio disappears but the process lingers for a few minutes. During this lingering I can open a new VLC window but I can't play anything in it. I have to wait for the old process to die.

This happens regularly, about every third episode (ca 20 minutes long). It is not limited to any specific files or file formats. Sometimes an episode causes the hang, sometimes not. Happens in mp4, avi and mkv. There is no specific time where it happens either, it can happen anywhere within the episode. But it seems the time between the hangs is pretty static. It never happens twice within an episode for example. I can always count on being able to watch at least one and a half 20 minute episode after this occurs. So there is some pattern here, it's not completely random.

As I said, the version is 2.1.0. I have tried to reinstall and remove cache. I have a newly installed copy of Windows 7 Pro 64 bit with all the latest patches from Windows Update. Pretty much a vanilla installation. No other media players or other stuff. Have MSE running in the background but it never caused any problems before.

Have anyone else experience this?

[Strahd]

I had the same problem at first last week with version 2.1.0 32 bit but it has been fine until today when I shutdown last night and started it up this morning everything I play randomly jumps back about 3 or 4 seconds in audio and the video freezes. It can happen 5 or 10 times in a 30 minute episode.

I have even tried installing the latest version 2.1.1 64 bit version on my Win 7 Ultimate 64bit system and also tried downgrading to 2.0.8 (which I know works on my other systems) and I am still getting the same problem.

If anyone knows how to fix this please let me know.

Thanks

[jforjimmy]

I have exactly the same problem as described by 'ephracis'.

I am using VLC 2.1.2 Rincewind on Windows XP Professional 32 Bit system. I thought about using the older versions of VLC but as mentioned in this thread 2.1.0 and 2.1.1 is having the same problem as well.

Any help on this bug would be appreciated.

Thanks

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Please share the logs and your CPU.

[JJMC89]

I am having a similar problem. Killing the process doesn't work. The process hangs and a hard restart is required.
I am running Win7 x64 with a FX-8350.
Here is my log from the most recent event.

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-- logger module started -- main debug: VLC media player - 2.1.2 Rincewind main debug: Copyright © 1996-2013 the VideoLAN team main debug: revision 2.1.2-0-ga4c4876 main debug: configured with ../extras/package/win32/../../../configure '--enable-update-check' '--enable-lua' '--enable-faad' '--enable-flac' '--enable-theora' '--enable-twolame' '--enable-quicktime' '--enable-avcodec' '--enable-merge-ffmpeg' '--enable-dca' '--enable-mpc' '--enable-libass' '--enable-x264' '--enable-schroedinger' '--enable-realrtsp' '--enable-live555' '--enable-dvdread' '--enable-shout' '--enable-goom' '--enable-caca' '--disable-sdl' '--enable-qt' '--enable-skins2' '--enable-sse' '--enable-mmx' '--enable-libcddb' '--enable-zvbi' '--disable-telx' '--enable-nls' '--disable-dirac' '--host=x86_64-w64-mingw32' 'host_alias=x86_64-w64-mingw32' main debug: using interface module "logger" main debug: Creating an input for 'Media Library' main debug: Input is a meta file: disabling unneeded options main debug: using timeshift granularity of 50 MiB, in path 'C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\Temp' main debug: `file/xspf-open:///C:/Users/<user>/AppData/Roaming/vlc/ml.xspf' gives access `file' demux `xspf-open' path `/C:/Users/<user>/AppData/Roaming/vlc/ml.xspf' main debug: creating demux: access='file' demux='xspf-open' location='/C:/Users/<user>/AppData/Roaming/vlc/ml.xspf' file='C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\vlc\ml.xspf' main debug: looking for access_demux module matching "file": 12 candidates main debug: no access_demux modules matched main debug: creating access 'file' location='/C:/Users/<user>/AppData/Roaming/vlc/ml.xspf', path='C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\vlc\ml.xspf' main debug: looking for access module matching "file": 20 candidates filesystem debug: opening file `C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\vlc\ml.xspf' main debug: using access module "filesystem" main debug: Using stream method for AStream* main debug: starting pre-buffering main debug: received first data after 0 ms main debug: pre-buffering done 304 bytes in 0s - 296 KiB/s main debug: looking for stream_filter module matching "any": 6 candidates main debug: no stream_filter modules matched main debug: looking for stream_filter module matching "record": 6 candidates main debug: using stream_filter module "record" main debug: creating demux: access='file' demux='xspf-open' location='/C:/Users/<user>/AppData/Roaming/vlc/ml.xspf' file='C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\vlc\ml.xspf' main debug: looking for demux module matching "xspf-open": 63 candidates playlist debug: using XSPF playlist reader main debug: using demux module "playlist" main debug: looking for meta reader module matching "any": 2 candidates lua debug: Trying Lua scripts in C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\vlc\lua\meta\reader lua debug: Trying Lua scripts in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\meta\reader lua debug: Trying Lua playlist script C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\meta\reader\filename.luac main debug: no meta reader modules matched main debug: `file/xspf-open:///C:/Users/<user>/AppData/Roaming/vlc/ml.xspf' successfully opened main debug: looking for xml reader module matching "any": 1 candidates main debug: using xml reader module "xml" playlist debug: parsed 0 tracks successfully main debug: EOF reached main debug: removing module "playlist" main debug: removing module "record" main debug: removing module "filesystem" main debug: creating audio output main debug: looking for audio output module matching "any": 6 candidates directsound debug: found 5 devices main debug: using audio output module "directsound" main debug: keeping audio output main debug: adding item `2 (3) - 2 Fast 2 Furious.mkv' ( file:///F:/Videos/Fast%20and%20the%20Furious/2%20%283%29%20-%202%20Fast%202%20Furious.mkv ) main debug: main debug: Creating an input for '2 (3) - 2 Fast 2 Furious.mkv'looking for interface module matching "hotkeys,none": 15 candidates main debug: using interface module "hotkeys" main debug: looking for interface module matching "globalhotkeys,none": 15 candidates main debug: using interface module "globalhotkeys" main: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface. main debug: looking for interface module matching "any": 15 candidates main debug: looking for extension module matching "any": 1 candidates lua debug: Opening Lua Extension module lua debug: Trying Lua scripts in C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\vlc\lua\extensions lua debug: Trying Lua scripts in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\extensions lua debug: Trying Lua playlist script C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\extensions\VLSub.luac lua debug: Scanning Lua script C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\extensions\VLSub.luac lua debug: Script C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\extensions\VLSub.luac has the following capability flags: 0x5 main debug: using extension module "lua" main debug: no fetch required for (null) (art currently (null)) main debug: looking for services probe module matching "any": 6 candidates main debug: no services probe modules matched qt4 debug: Sorting by column -1, order 0 qt4 debug: Sorting by column -1, order 0 qt4 debug: Sorting by column -1, order 0 main debug: using interface module "qt4" main debug: processing request item: null, node: Playlist, skip: 0 main debug: rebuilding array of current - root Playlist main debug: rebuild done - 1 items, index -1 main debug: starting playback of the new playlist item main debug: resyncing on 2 (3) - 2 Fast 2 Furious.mkv main debug: 2 (3) - 2 Fast 2 Furious.mkv is at 0 main debug: creating new input thread main debug: Creating an input for '2 (3) - 2 Fast 2 Furious.mkv' main debug: using timeshift granularity of 50 MiB, in path 'C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\Temp' main debug: `file:///F:/Videos/Fast%20and%20the%20Furious/2%20%283%29%20-%202%20Fast%202%20Furious.mkv' gives access `file' demux `' path `/F:/Videos/Fast%20and%20the%20Furious/2%20%283%29%20-%202%20Fast%202%20Furious.mkv' qt4 debug: main debug: IM: Setting an creating demux: access='file' demux='' location='/F:/Videos/Fast%20and%20tinput he%20Furious/2%20%283%29%20-%202%20Fast%202%20Furious.mkv' file='F:\Videos\Fast and the Furious\2 (3) - 2 Fast 2 Furious.mkv' main debug: looking for access_demux module matching "file": 12 candidates main debug: no access_demux modules matched main debug: creating access 'file' location='/F:/Videos/Fast%20and%20the%20Furious/2%20%283%29%20-%202%20Fast%202%20Furious.mkv', path='F:\Videos\Fast and the Furious\2 (3) - 2 Fast 2 Furious.mkv' main debug: looking for access module matching "file": 20 candidates filesystem debug: opening file `F:\Videos\Fast and the Furious\2 (3) - 2 Fast 2 Furious.mkv' main debug: using access module "filesystem" main debug: Using stream method for AStream* main debug: starting pre-buffering main debug: received first data after 0 ms main debug: pre-buffering done 1024 bytes in 0s - 1000000 KiB/s main debug: looking for stream_filter module matching "any": 6 candidates main debug: no stream_filter modules matched main debug: looking for stream_filter module matching "record": 6 candidates main debug: using stream_filter module "record" main debug: creating demux: access='file' demux='' location='/F:/Videos/Fast%20and%20the%20Furious/2%20%283%29%20-%202%20Fast%202%20Furious.mkv' file='F:\Videos\Fast and the Furious\2 (3) - 2 Fast 2 Furious.mkv' main debug: looking for demux module matching "mkv": 63 candidates mkv debug: | + Seek head mkv debug: | | + Seek mkv debug: | - info at 4151 mkv debug: | + Information mkv debug: | | + TimecodeScale=1000000 mkv debug: | | + Muxing Application=libebml v1.0.0 + libmatroska v1.0.0 mkv debug: | | + Writing Application=mkvmerge v4.0.0 ('The Stars were mine') built on Jun 6 2010 16:18:42 mkv debug: | | + Duration=6461867 mkv debug: | | + Date=Wed Nov 03 19:47:36 2010 mkv debug: | | + UID=709644956 mkv debug: | | + Seek mkv debug: | - tracks at 4311 mkv debug: | + Tracks mkv debug: | | + Track Entry mkv debug: | | | + Track Number=1 mkv debug: | | | + Track UID=2160360892 mkv debug: | | | + Track Type=video mkv debug: | | | + Track Default=0 mkv debug: | | | + Track Lacing=0 mkv debug: | | | + Track MinCache=1 mkv debug: | | | + Track CodecId=V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC mkv debug: | | | + Track CodecPrivate size=41 mkv debug: | | | + Track Default Duration=41708332 mkv debug: | | | + Track Language=`und' mkv debug: | | | + Track Video mkv debug: | | | | + width=1280 mkv debug: | | | | + height=544 mkv debug: | | | | + display width=1280 mkv debug: | | | | + display height=544 mkv debug: | | + Track Entry mkv debug: | | | + Track Number=2 mkv debug: | | | + Track UID=4212396169 mkv debug: | | | + Track Type=audio mkv debug: | | | + Track Default=0 mkv debug: | | | + Track CodecId=A_AAC mkv debug: | | | + Track CodecPrivate size=7 mkv debug: | | | + Track Default Duration=42666666 mkv debug: | | | + Track Name=united300.blogspot.com | 300mbunited.com | rapidpremium.net mkv debug: | | | + Track Audio mkv debug: | | | | + afreq=24000 mkv debug: | | | | + achan=2 mkv debug: | | | | + aoutfreq=48000 mkv debug: | | + Track Entry mkv debug: | | | + Track Number=3 mkv debug: | | | + Track UID=505212826 mkv debug: | | | + Track Type=subtitle mkv debug: | | | + Track Lacing=0 mkv debug: | | | + Track CodecId=S_TEXT/UTF8 mkv debug: | | | + Track Name=united300.blogspot.com | 300mbunited.com | rapidpremium.net mkv debug: | | + Seek mkv debug: | - cues at 677244283 mkv debug: | + Cues mkv warning: MKV/Ebml Parser: m_el[mi_level] == NULL mkv warning: MKV/Ebml Parser: Up cannot escape itself mkv debug: | - loading cues done. mkv debug: | | + Seek mkv debug: | | + Unknown (N7libebml8EbmlVoidE) mkv debug: | - chapters at 5785 mkv debug: | + Chapters mkv debug: | | + EditionEntry mkv debug: | | | + ChapterAtom (level=0) mkv debug: | | | | + ChapterUID: 4189443723 mkv debug: | | | | + ChapterTimeStart: 97000 mkv debug: | | | | + ChapterFlagHidden: no mkv debug: | | | | + ChapterDisplay mkv debug: | | | | | + ChapterString '00:00:00.097' mkv debug: | | | | | + ChapterLanguage 'eng' mkv debug: | + Void mkv debug: | + Information mkv debug: | + Tracks mkv debug: | + Void mkv debug: | + Chapters mkv debug: | + Void mkv debug: | + Cluster mkv debug: Virtual chapter 00:00:00.097 from 97000 to -1 - mkv debug: Virtual chapter from 0 to -1 - mkv debug: found 3 es main debug: selecting program id=0 main debug: Buffering 0% mkv debug: Starting the UI Hook main debug: using demux module "mkv" main debug: looking for a subtitle file in F:\Videos\Fast and the Furious\ main debug: looking for decoder module matching "any": 39 candidates avcodec debug: trying to use direct rendering avcodec debug: allowing 4 thread(s) for decoding avcodec debug: avcodec codec (H264 - MPEG-4 AVC (part 10)) started avcodec debug: using frame thread mode with 4 threads main debug: using decoder module "avcodec" main debug: looking for decoder module matching "any": 39 candidates main debug: using decoder module "faad" main debug: looking for decoder module matching "any": 39 candidates avcodec debug: codec not found (Text subtitles with various tags) subsdec debug: trying demuxer-specified character encoding: UTF-8 main debug: using decoder module "subsdec" main debug: looking for meta reader module matching "any": 2 candidates lua debug: Trying Lua scripts in C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\vlc\lua\meta\reader lua debug: Trying Lua scripts in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\meta\reader lua debug: Trying Lua playlist script C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\meta\reader\filename.luac main debug: no meta reader modules matched main debug: `file:///F:/Videos/Fast%20and%20the%20Furious/2%20%283%29%20-%202%20Fast%202%20Furious.mkv' successfully opened mkvmain debug: debug: looking for hw decoder module matching "any": 1 candidates NEW CHAPTER faad warning: 341000 decoded zero sample dxva2.lo debug: main debug: DLLs loaded Buffering 0% main debug: Stream buffering done (639 ms in 25 ms) faad debug: AAC SBR (channels: 2, samplerate: 48000) main debug: reusing audio output directsound debug: Opening DirectSound Audio Output directsound debug: Windows speaker config: Stereo and stream has 2 channels, using 2 channels main debug: output 'f32l' 48000 Hz Stereo frame=1 samples/8 bytes main debug: looking for audio volume module matching "any": 2 candidates main debug: using audio volume module "float_mixer" main debug: input 'f32l' 48000 Hz Stereo frame=1 samples/8 bytes main debug: looking for audio filter module matching "scaletempo": 14 candidates scaletempo debug: format: 48000 rate, 2 nch, 4 bps, fl32 scaletempo debug: params: 30 stride, 0.200 overlap, 14 search scaletempo debug: 1.000 scale, 1440.000 stride_in, 1440 stride_out, 1152 standing, 288 overlap, 672 search, 2400 queue, fl32 mode main debug: using audio filter module "scaletempo" main debug: conversion: 'f32l'->'f32l' 48000 Hz->48000 Hz Stereo->Stereo main debug: conversion pipeline complete main debug: conversion: 'f32l'->'f32l' 48000 Hz->48000 Hz Stereo->Stereo main debug: conversion pipeline complete main debug: looking for audio resampler module matching "any": 3 candidates main debug: using audio resampler module "samplerate" main debug: End of audio preroll dxva2.lo debug: D3dCreateDevice succeed dxva2.lo debug: OurDirect3DCreateDeviceManager9 Success! dxva2.lo: obtained IDirect3DDeviceManager9 dxva2.lo: DXVA2CreateVideoService Success! dxva2.lo debug: - 'MPEG-2 variable-length decoder' is supported by hardware dxva2.lo debug: - 'MPEG-2 inverse discrete cosine transform' is supported by hardware dxva2.lo debug: - 'H.264 variable-length decoder, no film grain technology' is supported by hardware dxva2.lo debug: - 'H.264 variable-length decoder, no film grain technology, Flash' is supported by hardware dxva2.lo warning: - Unknown GUID = 6719B6FB-5cad-4acb-XXXX dxva2.lo warning: - Unknown GUID = 9901CCD3-ca12-4b7e-XXXX dxva2.lo debug: - 'VC-1 variable-length decoder' is supported by hardware dxva2.lo warning: - Unknown GUID = CA15D19A-2b48-43d6-XXXX dxva2.lo debug: - 'MPEG-4 Part 2 variable-length decoder, Simple&Advanced Profile, Avivo' is supported by hardware dxva2.lo warning: - Unknown GUID = D79BE8DA-0cf1-4c81-XXXX dxva2.lo warning: - Unknown GUID = F9AACCBB-c2b6-4cfc-XXXX dxva2.lo debug: - 'MPEG-4 Part 2 variable-length decoder, Simple&Advanced Profile, no GMC' is supported by hardware dxva2.lo debug: Trying to use 'H.264 variable-length decoder, no film grain technology' as input dxva2.lo debug: NV12 is supported for output dxva2.lo debug: Using 'H.264 variable-length decoder, no film grain technology' to decode to 'NV12' main debug: using hw decoder module "dxva2.lo" avcodec debug: Available decoder output format 61 (dxva2_vld) dxva2.lo debug: DxCreateVideoDecoder id 28 1280x544 dxva2.lo debug: IDirectXVideoAccelerationService_CreateSurface succeed with 17 surfaces (1280x544) dxva2.lo debug: we got 2 decoder configurations dxva2.lo debug: configuration[0] ConfigBitstreamRaw 2 dxva2.lo debug: configuration[1] ConfigBitstreamRaw 2 dxva2.lo debug: IDirectXVideoDecoderService_CreateVideoDecoder succeed avcodec: Using DXVA2 (AMD Radeon HD 6800 Series, vendor 4098(ATI), device 26424, revision 0) for hardware decoding. main debug: Decoder buffering done in 78 ms main debug: inserting 2383 zeroes mkv debug: NEW CHAPTER 42000 mkv debug: NEW CHAPTER 125000 main debug: looking for text renderer module matching "any": 2 candidates freetype debug: Using Arial as font from file C:\Windows\Fonts\arial.ttf freetype debug: using fontsize: 2 main debug: using text renderer module "freetype" main debug: looking for video filter2 module matching "any": 55 candidates swscale debug: 32x32 chroma: YUVA -> 16x16 chroma: RGBA with scaling using Bicubic (good quality) main debug: using video filter2 module "swscale" main debug: looking for video filter2 module matching "any": 55 candidates yuvp debug: YUVP to YUVA converter main debug: using video filter2 module "yuvp" main debug: Deinterlacing available main debug: deinterlace 0, mode blend, is_needed 0 main debug: Opening vout display wrapper main debug: looking for vout display module matching "any": 10 candidates direct3d debug: creating Vout EventThread direct3d debug: DirectXCreateWindow main debug: looking for vout window hwnd module matching "qt4,any": 3 candidates qt4 debug: requesting video window... qt4 debug: Video was requested 0, 0 main debug: using vout window hwnd module "qt4" direct3d debug: created video sub-window direct3d debug: Vout EventThread running direct3d debug: disabling screen saver direct3d debug: Direct3d Device: AMD Radeon HD 6800 Series 4098 26424 0 main debug: VoutDisplayEvent 'resize' 1296x582 window direct3d warning: trying surface pixel format: YV12 direct3d debug: selected surface pixel format is YV12 direct3d debug: Using D3DTEXF_LINEAR for minification direct3d debug: Using D3DTEXF_LINEAR for magnification direct3d debug: Direct3D scene created successfully direct3d debug: Direct3D device adapter successfully initialized main debug: using vout display module "direct3d" main debug: original format sz 1280x544, of (0,0), vsz 1280x544, 4cc YV12, sar 1:1, msk r0x0 g0x0 b0x0 main debug: removing module "freetype" main debugm:ain debug: looking for text renderer module matching "any": 2 candidates VoutDisplayEvent 'resize' 1280x544 window freetype debug: Using Arial as font from file C:\Windows\Fonts\arial.ttf freetype debug: using fontsize: 2 main debug: using text renderer module "freetype" main debug: End of video preroll direct3d debug: Created 414x37 texture for OSD main warning: picture is too late to be displayed (missing 398 ms) main warning: picture is too late to be displayed (missing 358 ms) main warning: picture is too late to be displayed (missing 317 ms) main warning: picture is too late to be displayed (missing 275 ms) main debug: looking for xml reader module matching "any": 1 candidates main debug: using xml reader module "xml" direct3d debug: Created 572x37 texture for OSD main debug: auto hiding mouse cursor main debug: removing module "subsdec" main debug: killing decoder fourcc `subt', 0 PES in FIFO main debug: VoutDisplayEvent 'mouse button' 0 t=8 main debug: VoutDisplayEvent 'mouse button' 0 t=9 main debug: VoutDisplayEvent 'double click' qt4 debug: Qt: Fullscreen state changed qt4 debug: Qt: Entering Fullscreen qt4 debug: Qt: Fullscreen state changed main debug: VoutDisplayEvent 'resize' 1920x1080 fullscreen main debug: auto hiding mouse cursor main debug: VoutDisplayEvent 'mouse button' 0 t=8 main debug: VoutDisplayEvent 'mouse button' 0 t=9 direct3d debug: Created 48x432 texture for OSD direct3d debug: Created 289x45 texture for OSD direct3d debug: Created 289x45 texture for OSD main debug: auto hiding mouse cursor main debug: auto hiding mouse cursor main debug: auto hiding mouse cursor direct3d debug: Created 48x432 texture for OSD direct3d debug: Created 289x45 texture for OSD direct3d debug: Created 317x45 texture for OSD direct3d debug: Created 313x45 texture for OSD direct3d debug: Created 317x45 texture for OSD main debug: auto hiding mouse cursor main debug: VoutDisplayEvent 'mouse button' 0 t=8 main debug: VoutDisplayEvent 'mouse button' 0 t=9 direct3d debug: Created 48x432 texture for OSD direct3d debug: Created 317x45 texture for OSD main debug: auto hiding mouse cursor main debug: auto hiding mouse cursor main debug: VoutDisplayEvent 'mouse button' 0 t=8 main debug: VoutDisplayEvent 'mouse button' 0 t=9 direct3d debug: Created 48x432 texture for OSD direct3d debug: Created 317x45 texture for OSD main debug: auto hiding mouse cursor main debug: VoutDisplayEvent 'mouse button' 0 t=8 main debug: VoutDisplayEvent 'mouse button' 0 t=9 direct3d debug: Created 48x432 texture for OSD direct3d debug: Created 317x45 texture for OSD main debug: auto hiding mouse cursor main warning: playback too early (-40475): down-sampling main debug: resampling stopped (drift: -9518 us) main warning: playback too early (-40850): down-sampling main debug: resampling stopped (drift: -6267 us) main warning: playback too early (-41937): down-sampling main debug: resampling stopped (drift: -8810 us) main warning: playback too early (-40478): down-sampling main debug: resampling stopped (drift: -13517 us) main warning: playback too early (-40186): down-sampling main debug: resampling stopped (drift: -2957 us) direct3d debug: Created 48x432 texture for OSD direct3d debug: Created 317x45 texture for OSD direct3d debug: Created 317x45 texture for OSD main warning: playback too early (-40624): down-sampling main debug: resampling stopped (drift: 2420 us) main warning: playback too early (-40579): down-sampling main debug: resampling stopped (drift: -14019 us) main warning: playback too early (-41687): down-sampling main debug: resampling stopped (drift: -12996 us) main warning: playback too early (-41332): down-sampling main debug: resampling stopped (drift: -8375 us) main warning: playback too early (-40039): down-sampling main debug: resampling stopped (drift: -14020 us) main warning: playback too early (-40017): down-sampling main debug: resampling stopped (drift: -4662 us) main warning: playback too early (-40330): down-sampling main debug: resampling stopped (drift: -6601 us) main warning: playback too early (-40604): down-sampling main debug: resampling stopped (drift: -17458 us) direct3d debug: Created 48x432 texture for OSD direct3d debug: Created 317x45 texture for OSD direct3d debug: Created 48x432 texture for OSD direct3d debug: Created 317x45 texture for OSD main warning: playback too early (-40455): down-sampling main debug: resampling stopped (drift: -8163 us) main warning: playback too early (-42146): down-sampling main debug: resampling stopped (drift: -10726 us) main warning: playback too early (-40059): down-sampling main debug: resampling stopped (drift: -11269 us) main warning: playback too early (-40580): down-sampling main debug: resampling stopped (drift: -17558 us) main warning: playback too early (-40894): down-sampling main debug: resampling stopped (drift: -7810 us) main warning: playback too early (-40146): down-sampling main debug: resampling stopped (drift: -2642 us) main warning: playback too early (-40979): down-sampling main debug: resampling stopped (drift: -11329 us) main warning: playback too early (-40331): down-sampling main debug: resampling stopped (drift: -6853 us) main warning: playback too early (-40187): down-sampling main debug: resampling stopped (drift: -8749 us) main warning: playback too early (-40080): down-sampling main debug: resampling stopped (drift: -12392 us) main debug: auto hiding mouse cursor main debug: auto hiding mouse cursor main debug: VoutDisplayEvent 'mouse button' 0 t=8 main debug: VoutDisplayEvent 'mouse button' 0 t=9 main debug: VoutDisplayEvent 'double click' qt4 debug: Qt: Fullscreen state changed qt4 debug: Qt: Quitting Fullscreen qt4 debug: Qt: Fullscreen state changed main debug: VoutDisplayEvent 'resize' 1280x544 window main debug: auto hiding mouse cursor main debug: auto hiding mouse cursor main debug: VoutDisplayEvent 'mouse button' 0 t=8 main debug: VoutDisplayEvent 'mouse button' 0 t=9 main debug: auto hiding mouse cursor main debug: incoming request - stopping current input main debug: incoming request - stopping current input main debug: incoming request - stopping current input main debug: incoming request - stopping current input main debug: incoming request - stopping current input main debug: incoming request - stopping current input main debug: incoming request - stopping current input main debug: incoming request - stopping current input main debug: incoming request - stopping current input main debug: exiting main debug: removing all interfaces main debug: exiting main debug: no exit handler main debug: removing module "qt4" main debug: deactivating the playlist main debug: incoming request - stopping current input

I will post more logs as the event reoccurs.

[Rando_Calrissian]

http://www.valvetime.net/threads/brand- ... ze.131328/
Hope this helps

[Jackthom88]

So, I followed the link and have gone through and done everything right down to uninstalling AVG and it seems to have all been for not. The problem is still happening and it's just gets stuck in this continual loop of audio, the picture freezes, but I can still adjust the volume which I thought was kind of weird. I go to shut down the process and nothing happens. Anyone else know of any other potential fixes? This has only just started happening in the last couple days. I have a bone stock Asus G73

[Jackthom88]

bump

[AllRaj]

I'm experiencing this exact problem too.

I noticed it started a couple of months ago. The only thing I can add to what is above is that it seems OK the week before MS Patch Tuesday. After I install updates the crash/looping problems occur again.

I currently use v2.1.3 on Windows 8 (x64).

[Jackthom88]

I've gone as far as restoring my computer to back when it was working fine a couple weeks ago just to be safe and the problem persists.

[AllRaj]

I realise that I have left out a crucial point in my earlier post.

The issue only seems to occur when I am playing media from my Windows Home Server 2011 box. If the media file exists locally on my desktop I do not experience this problem.

[AllRaj]

I think I have found a solution to my problem.

I had recently switched AV to Adaware and it seems the Network protection function may have been the culprit. I have turned this off and not had a problem since.

[snowdrop23]

I had the same problem so I have updated to VLC 2.1.3 Rhinewind and it is even worse, I can barely play any video for 5 mins before it loops and I have to use task manager to close it.
I am on Windows 7 and until this is sorted I am going to find another program to play my videos.

I love VLC and have it on all my devices and recommend it to all my friends so I hope it can get sorted

[xbn2014]

I have noticed since I upgraded VLC to version 2.1.0 that is sort of "hangs" from time to time.

What happens is that the picture freezes and the audio jumps back about 3-4 seconds, then the audio gets stuck in this loop. I can close the window but the audio continues to play. If I kill the process the audio disappears but the process lingers for a few minutes. During this lingering I can open a new VLC window but I can't play anything in it. I have to wait for the old process to die.

This happens regularly, about every third episode (ca 20 minutes long). It is not limited to any specific files or file formats. Sometimes an episode causes the hang, sometimes not. Happens in mp4, avi and mkv. There is no specific time where it happens either, it can happen anywhere within the episode. But it seems the time between the hangs is pretty static. It never happens twice within an episode for example. I can always count on being able to watch at least one and a half 20 minute episode after this occurs. So there is some pattern here, it's not completely random.

As I said, the version is 2.1.0. I have tried to reinstall and remove cache. I have a newly installed copy of Windows 7 Pro 64 bit with all the latest patches from Windows Update. Pretty much a vanilla installation. No other media players or other stuff. Have MSE running in the background but it never caused any problems before.

Have anyone else experience this?

Just wanted to let you know that I'm having the exact same problem with VLC 2.1.3
And similar to what is mentioned here: https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/6600

Could this be hardware/driver related?
I have NVIDIA K2100m GPU, Haswell i7 4900MQ CPU

[xbn2014]

Problem also occurs in 2.0.8

[guitardude7]

This problem is driving me crazy!!!!!! Sometimes it will get stuck in the loop 15 minutes into playback, and others maybe 2 minutes in. One thing I have just noticed- I'm playing the video from a separate hard drive that just has data stored on it, and when VLC gets stuck in the loop that hard drive goes to 100% usage, but I can't figure out why that is happening. Hopefully someone will figure this out soon. I've tried every possible setting in VLC.

[LePhasme]

I have the same issue on windows 8.1.
I noticed that it happened when the window of one dell utility popped up in the background (and vlc switched from full screen to maximized).

[guitardude7]

I'm also running Windows 8.1, not sure if that's related to the issue.

[xbn2014]

I'm on Windows 7 64bit , also Dell (Precision m4800)

[guitardude7]

Anyone figured this out yet? Seems ridiculous that there's no solution to this problem.

[xbn2014]

My VLC problems stopped when deactivating OPTIMUS Technology in BIOS.

The Intel Graphics in combination with a standalone graphic card controlled by OPTIMUS technology caused this very specific problem.
Must be a specific chipset (?), because I've seen laptops with optimus enabled without this problem.

[apparle]

I also have the exact same problem!!!
Do you guys also have Nvidia/Intel Optimus enabled graphic card?
According to this link, it might be the source of the problem:
http://www.nex.be/press/2014/04/04/vlc- ... -solution/

[dobbymon99]

Hi, I found a solution for this myself and uploaded a video to youtube as the fix. Hope it helps someone out there. It really ticked me off

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gleoVxeEQug