Possible bug - VLC process not terminating (sometimes)

[hdixon]

Hi - I'm using VCL 0.8.5 under FC5-64. It works great and I use it every day.
About once every 3-4 times of running it, when I exit out of the app either by closing the window or using File->Exit, the app (gui) closes but the process remains running (music playing fine). I then go into System Monitor and either stop or kill the process.
I usually have the playlist window open also. This has happened whether its a local playlist or a Shoutcast playlist.

No biggie - just dropping a note. Luv the app tho! Thanks.

[Adrian]

I confirm same behaviour, but it happens systematically. Runing XP SP2. and VLC version 0.8.5

I find this quite annoying. Unless I find a switch telling vlc to open by default files in the same process...

And, of course, great app.

[Nick]

Hi,
I'm running VLC 0.8.5 with wxWidgets interface on Gentoo Linux.

I have this problem too, but it happens EVERY time i close vlc! Whether i close VLC by closing the window or by File > Exit my music continues playing.

Ok, so doing a quick 'killall -9 wxvlc' does the trick but I would like to be able to sort this problem out.

Nick.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

I find this quite annoying. Unless I find a switch telling vlc to open by default files in the same process...

You can in the preferences. Search "simple instance" or "one instance" on this forum

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

For everyone:
have you reseted you vlc settings ?

Or trashed your .vlc folder ?

Sometimes It can help

[heindsight]

I'm having the same problem on my laptop.
I'm running ubuntu-6.06 (freshly installed just yesterday)
with vlc-0.8.5 (installed from .deb's found from link in this thread) with the wxwidgets interface.

Everything works beautifully but after I open a directory (from the main window) or add a directory to the playlist (from the playlist window), vlc always hangs on exit. It exits normally the rest of the time, the problem only occurs after opening a directory.

The problem is definitely not caused by incorrect configuration -- resetting the configuration (or deleting all of ~/.vlc) has no effect.

appart from this (relatively minor) annoyance vlc is wonderful - without a doubt the best media player I've ever encountered.