[PLUG] VLC won't launch

[Vince Winter]

It may be worth trying to add a temp user and seeing if it is a system wide
issue or user profile issue. That should help limit the scope of the issue.

On Sat, Nov 28, 2020 at 2:55 PM Ben Koenig <techkoenig at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On 11/28/20 2:48 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> > On Wed, 18 Nov 2020 21:38:22 -0800
> > John Jason Jordan <johnxj at gmx.com> dijo:
> >
> >> On Wed, 18 Nov 2020 20:45:51 -0800
> >> Jason Barnett <jason.barnett71 at gmail.com> dijo:
> >>
> >>> check to see if it is already running in the background
> >>>> ps -A |grep vlc
> >>> If so, then kill it
> >>>
> >>>> killall vlc
> >> Interesting. The grep command gave me:
> >>
> >>      320874 ? 03:37:35 vlc
> >>
> >> Even though there was no VLC window on the desktop. So then I did
> >> 'killall vlc,' but it still wouldn't launch. Finally I opened the GUI
> >> task manager and there it was, still running. I killed it with the task
> >> manager, and that did the job. All is well now.
> > It just started doing it again. Last time I found it running in the GUI
> > task manager, killed it there, and then it started working again. This
> > time it did not appear in the task manager, but the ps -A |grep vlc
> > command gave me the PID 406292, which I then killed, and afterwards vlc
> > started working again.
> >
> > How can there be a PID that does not appear in the GUI task manager?
> > Next time this happens, how can I find out more information about a
> > PID? I am assuming here that some random piece of VLC is not being shut
> > down when I close VLC, and whatever it is, it's stopping me from
> > launching VLC from the GUI file manager. And note that if VLC is
> > running I can open a second window of it to play a different video.
>
>
> Does VLC have the ability to run in the background? VLC does more than
> just play videos, it also has the ability to transcode and do other A/V
> related tasks in the background. Try checking in the settings for a "run
> in the background" or "Close to system tray" option. I would not be
> surprised if VLC has something left on its "todo" list when you close it
> so all you have to do is identify what that is and tell it to stop.
>
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Vince Winter
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