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when I pause a video to much VLC freezes

Postby animalia555 » 11 Nov 2023 22:22

When I pause a video to much VLC freezes and I then have to close the video and open it back up again. Any ideas on what I can do to avoid this.

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Re: when I pause a video to much VLC freezes

Postby Lotesdelere » 13 Nov 2023 15:32

Please open Tools -> Messages (set Verbosity to 2) before you start the playback, and then paste the full resulting log here or on Pastebin.com or on Justpaste.it if it's too long.

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Re: when I pause a video to much VLC freezes

Postby animalia555 » 14 Nov 2023 16:58

It didn't crash this time but

https://justpaste.it/ahzb3

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Re: when I pause a video to much VLC freezes

Postby Lotesdelere » 15 Nov 2023 10:54

What is drive H: ? A network drive ? An USB drive ?
Is it any better if you're playing the file from your local drive where the OS is installed ?

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Re: when I pause a video to much VLC freezes

Postby animalia555 » 15 Nov 2023 14:30

What is drive H: ? A network drive ? An USB drive ?
Is it any better if you're playing the file from your local drive where the OS is installed ?
an external hard drive. It's where the video file I watched was

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Re: when I pause a video to much VLC freezes

Postby Lotesdelere » 16 Nov 2023 10:01

So I ask again: is it any better if you're playing the file from your local drive where the OS is installed ?

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Re: when I pause a video to much VLC freezes

Postby animalia555 » 16 Nov 2023 14:49

So I ask again: is it any better if you're playing the file from your local drive where the OS is installed ?
I wouldn't know. Most of my video files are on external hard drives

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Re: when I pause a video to much VLC freezes

Postby Lotesdelere » 17 Nov 2023 10:07

Can you try ?

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Re: when I pause a video to much VLC freezes

Postby animalia555 » 17 Nov 2023 18:56

I copied and pasted a video to my desktop and played it (also messed around with it a little.) Here is the result

https://justpaste.it/cysep

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Re: when I pause a video to much VLC freezes

Postby Lotesdelere » 18 Nov 2023 11:58

So F: is a local drive ? If so, does it freeze as well ?

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Re: when I pause a video to much VLC freezes

Postby animalia555 » 18 Nov 2023 15:33

So F: is a local drive ? If so, does it freeze as well ?
The drive doesn't freeze

Edit: For what it's worth I started having problem with vlc when I got a new computer and had to reinstall it on it.

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Re: when I pause a video to much VLC freezes

Postby Lotesdelere » 21 Nov 2023 11:22

Bad wording, the question should have been: If so, does VLC freeze as well ?

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Re: when I pause a video to much VLC freezes

Postby animalia555 » 24 Nov 2023 21:39

I mentioned VLC freezing

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Re: when I pause a video to much VLC freezes

Postby Lotesdelere » 25 Nov 2023 14:02

Is F: a local drive or a network drive or an USB drive ?
If F: is a local drive then does VLC freeze as well when you pause a video ?

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Re: when I pause a video to much VLC freezes

Postby animalia555 » 25 Nov 2023 15:22

Is F: a local drive or a network drive or an USB drive ?
If F: is a local drive then does VLC freeze as well when you pause a video ?
When I got my new pc F drive seems to work in unison with c drive but I coudn't tell you the details. it's not usb though I can tell you that much.
Vlc does freeze AFTER pausing but only SOMETIMES

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Re: when I pause a video to much VLC freezes

Postby Lotesdelere » 27 Nov 2023 11:49

Edit: For what it's worth I started having problem with vlc when I got a new computer and had to reinstall it on it.

So that sounds like a system problem.


When I got my new pc F drive seems to work in unison with c drive but I coudn't tell you the details. it's not usb though I can tell you that much.
Vlc does freeze AFTER pausing but only SOMETIMES

Maybe a RAID configuration ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID

And one of the drives is going into sleep/parking mode for some reason ?
Again, to me it's a system issue.

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Re: when I pause a video to much VLC freezes

Postby animalia555 » 26 Mar 2024 01:47

Edit: For what it's worth I started having problem with vlc when I got a new computer and had to reinstall it on it.

So that sounds like a system problem.


When I got my new pc F drive seems to work in unison with c drive but I coudn't tell you the details. it's not usb though I can tell you that much.
Vlc does freeze AFTER pausing but only SOMETIMES

Maybe a RAID configuration ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID

And one of the drives is going into sleep/parking mode for some reason ?
Again, to me it's a system issue.
I don't suppose you can give me advice on said system issue?

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Re: when I pause a video to much VLC freezes

Postby animalia555 » 05 Apr 2024 15:18

I am running windows 11, and VLC is likely installed to my C drive (system partition), even though you may have media files on external drives


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