Infinite loop when problem opening a file and "loop one" selected

[cc109]

I am not sure where to report this, and it is probably trivial for the VLC team to fix this.

When "loop one" is activated (which I leave activated most of the time), trying to open a file which for any reason cannot be opened (file deleted in between, network drive ceases to be available, file corrupted, etc), VLC goes into an infinite loop of attempting to re-open the file. This makes VLC unresponsive, and the only solution then seems to be to kill the process, which is sometimes challenging if the VLC windows is brought forward on each attempt to open the file, sending the Task Manager back to the background within milliseconds.

Happens on Win 7 + Win 10.

There should be some logic that if the file failed to open and "loop one/all" is activated, there shouldn't be more than n attempts made over a period of time.

[Lotesdelere]

Yes, confirmed, and it's the same behaviour when the connection to a stream is lost (without loop), you have to kill the process.
Old and very very annoying bug.

You should create a new ticket on the VLC Trac with the link to this thread.

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

What makes VLC unresponsive is the error dialog repeatedly stealing the focus.

Try with the HTTP or RC interface instead of the GUI - it is perfectly possible to stop the playback even during a live loop of errors.

[cc109]

That may be the case but I am not sure what good it does to users of the GUI. Unless there is a way to set the error dialog in a mode that allows the user to take back control of the UI when that happens.