VLC crashes after trying to play a video

[KirbyKrit]

So, my Mac version is 10.14.1, I had 2 VLC versions installed (3.0 and 2.2), I was primarily using 2.2 'cause I liked it more, and everything was working fine until yesterday when out of the blue VLC asked for some "unique" rights(that's what it said in russian, not admin but unique), I refused and after that both versions started just insta-crashing after trying to play any video. I deleted them both and tried other variants, no other versions work for me now, except the latest 3.0.7, but I still want to revert to 2.2, it was the most stable version for me, while 3.0.7 has a playback delay on .avi files.

[KirbyKrit]

Process: VLC [1580]
Path: /Users/USER/Desktop/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/VLC
Identifier: org.videolan.vlc
Version: 2.2.5.1 (2.2.5.1)
Code Type: X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process: ??? [1]
Responsible: VLC [1580]
User ID: 501

Date/Time: 2019-06-09 17:27:47.523 +0300
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.14.1 (18B75)
Report Version: 12
Anonymous UUID: 7E3C9BE6-DB91-D13D-096C-3AF3D5C2A612

Sleep/Wake UUID: 0EE28818-5295-4062-BFE8-C79A2507783C

Time Awake Since Boot: 17000 seconds
Time Since Wake: 270 seconds

System Integrity Protection: enabled

Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

Exception Type: EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT)
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000
Exception Note: EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY

Application Specific Information:
Assertion failed: (_eventPort != NULL), function -[SPMediaKeyTap startWatchingMediaKeys], file ../../../../extras/package/macosx/../../../modules/gui/macosx/SPMediaKeyTap.m, line 87.


Thread 0 Crashed:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x00007fff7a5c2b86 __pthread_kill + 10
1 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff7a678c50 pthread_kill + 285
2 libsystem_c.dylib 0x00007fff7a52c1c9 abort + 127
3 libsystem_c.dylib 0x00007fff7a4f4868 __assert_rtn + 320
4 libmacosx_plugin.dylib 0x000000010060bb08 -[SPMediaKeyTap startWatchingMediaKeys] + 200
5 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff4d30b36c ___CFXRegistrationPost_block_invoke + 63
6 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff4d30b28d _CFXRegistrationPost + 398
7 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff4d3136d9 ___CFXNotificationPost_block_invoke + 87
8 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff4d27ae8a -[_CFXNotificationRegistrar find:object:observer:enumerator:] + 1633
9 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff4d27a24d _CFXNotificationPost + 742
10 com.apple.Foundation 0x00007fff4f60298b -[NSNotificationCenter postNotificationName:object:userInfo:] + 66
11 com.apple.Foundation 0x00007fff4f6a2abb __NSThreadPerformPerform + 327
12 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff4d2c4155 __CFRUNLOOP_IS_CALLING_OUT_TO_A_SOURCE0_PERFORM_FUNCTION__ + 17
13 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff4d2c40fb __CFRunLoopDoSource0 + 108
14 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff4d2a7b95 __CFRunLoopDoSources0 + 195
15 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff4d2a713e __CFRunLoopRun + 1219
16 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff4d2a6a28 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 463
17 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x00007fff4c53fb35 RunCurrentEventLoopInMode + 293
18 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x00007fff4c53f774 ReceiveNextEventCommon + 371
19 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x00007fff4c53f5e8 _BlockUntilNextEventMatchingListInModeWithFilter + 64
20 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff4a7fbeb7 _DPSNextEvent + 997
21 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff4a7fac56 -[NSApplication(NSEvent) _nextEventMatchingEventMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 1362
22 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff4a7f4cb9 -[NSApplication run] + 699
23 libmacosx_plugin.dylib 0x0000000100606753 OpenIntf + 563

[KirbyKrit]

Error code is 0x02000148

[dfuhrmann]

Sorry, we do not support 2.2.x anymore, and we will not fix this issue for this branch. You definitely should update to 3.0.7, otherwise you miss lots of security fixes and your system is vulnerable to attacks.

Also, please always report any regressions you see for VLC 3.0.x, I am not aware of any problems with AVI files at the moment.

[KirbyKrit]

The very same thing happens with all the 3.0 branch too, except the latest one.

[KirbyKrit]

Regarding AVI files the problem was on my end, what happened is that I played a corrupted avi file and that was causing the glitch for all of them(solved after restarting).
Can you at least determine what exactly is causing the crash?

[dfuhrmann]

Yes, the crash is known (it is caused by the new security protections mechanism introduced in macOS 10.14) and we fixed that in VLC 3.0.7. So please update to that version.

[KirbyKrit]

And what was that thing with "unique rights"? Should I just accept if it happens in future?

[dfuhrmann]

You need to accept the security setting if you still want to use the Media keys with VLC.

[eyekey]

The problem is: the shuffle mode of the newer ones do not work (very well).
A folder with a lot of subfolders and video files here and there are not playing randomly as they did in 2.2.8.
In the new version it mostly stays within one folder unless the "random algorithm" picks another folder.

[Lugosanto]

So i fixed it by going into system preferences then security and privacy then click the lock put your password in and go into the privacy tab, after that accessibility and tick the box that says VLC and has the logo on it allowing the app to control your computer. Then it worked just fine.

Ps: i have version 2.2.1 ive had it for a while and never had a problem till now.

Hope this helps

[macroyal]

So i fixed it by going into system preferences then security and privacy then click the lock put your password in and go into the privacy tab, after that accessibility and tick the box that says VLC and has the logo on it allowing the app to control your computer. Then it worked just fine.

Ps: i have version 2.2.1 ive had it for a while and never had a problem till now.

Hope this helps

YES this solved the problem easily for me (OS 10.14.5). Thank you Lugosanto!..
although I just realised I also had a quite old VLC version (2.2... updating to 3.0.7.1 now! confident it'll work..

[generaleye]

So i fixed it by going into system preferences then security and privacy then click the lock put your password in and go into the privacy tab, after that accessibility and tick the box that says VLC and has the logo on it allowing the app to control your computer. Then it worked just fine.

Ps: i have version 2.2.1 ive had it for a while and never had a problem till now.

Hope this helps

This WORKED!!!. Thanks @Lugosanto

[zxhxrma]

So i fixed it by going into system preferences then security and privacy then click the lock put your password in and go into the privacy tab, after that accessibility and tick the box that says VLC and has the logo on it allowing the app to control your computer. Then it worked just fine.

Ps: i have version 2.2.1 ive had it for a while and never had a problem till now.

Hope this helps

This still works, thank you so much Lugosanto!!!