On 11/28/20 2:48 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote:
On Wed, 18 Nov 2020 21:38:22 -0800
John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> dijo:
On Wed, 18 Nov 2020 20:45:51 -0800
Jason Barnett <[email protected]> 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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