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When I open a media with vlc, it works nice until I close the window. After closing it, it resist on memory and double clicking on any media on my system doesn't open it for playing.

I can kill it with System Monitor or Terminal command. After doing this, everything works again until I close vlc.

I have read VLC doesn't open when double-clicking file on Nautilus but the solutions don't fix my problem. I doubt that the problem is the same.

I'm tired of killing vlc again and again. Any help would be appreciated.

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  • can you live with : alias vlc='pkill vlc;/usr/bin/vlc' Aug 25, 2020 at 6:16

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This is probably a problem with the OpenGL drivers (or Mesa graphics library. See issue: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/issues/116). You should change the video output mode.

Go to Tools > Preferences > Video and then set the value for Output field to XVideo output (XCB).

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    This one solved my problem! Thanks!
    – Halacs
    Oct 22, 2020 at 16:43
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    This is solved my problem. Really I couldn't verify the problem is OpenGL driver. My previous value for output is Automatic. Thanks @xyres.
    – mece1390
    Oct 23, 2020 at 8:44
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    @mece1390 For Automatic output, VLC uses OpenGL if your GPU supports it.
    – xyres
    Oct 24, 2020 at 4:40
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On Kubuntu 20.04, same thing BUT can NOT kill VLC process from system monitor. have to right click file in the monitor and "send signal" and choose kill

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