VLC 3.0.12 often hangs (picture remains frozen, no sound, but timeline advances normally) if I am playing a .ts file (MPEG 720x576x25) recorded off-air from UK television. Once this has happened, VLC sometimes stops responding to a Close Application (X in top right-hand corner of window) and has to be killed off in Task Manager. Once it has happened, the same file or a different file cannot be played again: it is always necessary to kill/close VLC and restart it. Playing of a video, without pausing or single-stepping, always works: it is even possible to drag the time line to a different place and start playing at that point. It seems that pausing or single-stepping is what stops the playing of sound and video.
This happens on both a Windows 7 PC (VLC 2.1.5 upgraded to 3.0.12) and a Windows 10 PC (clean installation of 3.0.12, VLC not previously installed). It happens with files stored on a local drive (connected by SATA) as well as those on a SAMBA-shared network drive.
The same files played OK on V2.1.5 on the Windows 7 PC before I upgraded that PC to V3.0.12. Both versions of VLC were the 64-bit exe.
I have attached a debug file (Tools | Messages | log level 2).
The logfile shows the playing of two files: Rumpole of the Bailey (544x576x25) which did not provoke the error, and then The Suspicions of Mr Whicher (704x576x25) which hung after single-stepping through several frames.