VLC causes system process to max out when I STOP playing a DVD

[Faustus]

This is a freshly install XP with almost nothing on it. Latest Video Drives and Audio Drivers. Also tried an older video driver.


I can play any sort of video through VLC but if its a DVD either on a DVD, DVD files on the hard drive, or an ISO file with DVD files in it when I CLOSE or STOP VLC it causes my system process to spike out to 50% (dual core system, means it taking 100% usages of the primary core)

Other DVD player softwares work just fine.

Anyone ran into this before? its driving me nuts!

[Soopafresh]

Increase the verbosity level (either in the preferences or with a -vvvv command line option) and look at the debug messages (in the terminal or in the Messages window)


http://wiki.videolan.org/Common_Problems

[Faustus]

Yeah did that. Nothing sticks out other then a few dropped frames while playing.

[Soopafresh]

Dang.... Would be interesting to see which file it hangs on.

I just ran it along with filemon from sysinternals.com, and the last thing it writes to after the app closes is C:\Documents and Settings\your user name here\Application Data\vlc\cache

Perhaps you can rename the files in there temporarily? Maybe one or more is corrupt.

Another thing - VLC needs to be uninstalled completely before installing a newer version. It'll keep remnants of old versions otherwise. Give it a shot, and go into the VideoLan folder after you deinstall to remove anything left. Same with that folder I posted above. Hope you get it working. That version 0.8.6a is really nice and detailed looking on Mpeg files.

[Faustus]

This was solved btw. Turns out a few others started having the issue and its related to the AC'97 driver. Basically the new version if poopy and once it was forced back to the 8/13/2006 driver everything is fine again.