vlc 100% cpu usage when file doesn't exist
Bug #1314964 reported by
Jordon Bedwell
This bug affects 1 person
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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vlc (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
When opening VLC from the command line and being unable to find the file VLC will consume 100% of the CPU usage and retry-reopening it over and over again consuming 100% of the CPU. This can be replicated on Ubuntu 14.04.
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VLC media player 2.1.2 Rincewind (revision 2.1.2-0-ga4c4876)
VLC version 2.1.2 Rincewind (2.1.2-0-ga4c4876)
Compiled by buildd on orlo.buildd (Mar 24 2014 06:18:54)
Compiler: gcc version 4.8.2 (Ubuntu 4.8.2-17ubuntu1)
This program comes with NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
You may redistribute it under the terms of the GNU General Public License;
see the file named COPYING for details.
Written by the VideoLAN team; see the AUTHORS file.
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I can't reproduce this.
Can you please tell which vlc-packages you've got installed? Please execute this in the terminal and post the output:
dpkg -l | grep '^ii.*vlc'
Thanks!