On Sun, 2019-07-07 at 21:19 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > I have been looking at a couple mp4 videos transferred from my son's > phone. > > I successfully opened 3 of them with vlc, closed vlc and renamed > them. > > Then for the fourth, vlc stopped launching. > > Well I guess it is really not launching, as I see the vlc icon on > the panel. It is not responding. It won't close. It won't let me > open a file. It won't quit. I've occasionally come across that. It's either jammed on some media file it doesn't like, or dead looped when it's been asked to play files on repeat, and it can't load the file. It excessively tries to access a non-existent file, instead of quitting. I wonder whether it uses repackaged/wrapped windows codecs for some files, and they're just a crap codec. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-957.21.3.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 18 16:35:19 UTC 2019 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
