VLC seems to crash my PC, any advice?

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  1. Posts : 7
    Windows 7
       #1

    VLC seems to crash my PC, any advice?


    Hi, I've had my new PC a while now, been running Windows 7 with no problems, but what I've noticed is that when I try and play anything in VLC media player, it functions fine for a while but then causes my PC to crash.
    The screen will suddenly go black (despite the monitor remaining on and not going into standby) and for a few seconds whatever sound was coming from VLC, eg a man talking, will "stutter" extremely fast for a few seconds (see YouTube - How about adding some STUTTER EFFECTS to your DJ Sound Drops for the kind of sound I mean) and then cut to silence.

    It's really weird, because the PC is still on, the LED light on top is still indicating that it's on, but it's completely unresponsive - even when I hit the power button, there's no effect, so I have to turn it off then on again at the wall socket

    Other than that, it's completely functional - doesn't seem to be a driver problem as even Blu-ray quality video files play fine in HP MediaSmart Video, the default media player.

    Any advice is appreciated, I just want to be able to use VLC without constantly crashing my PC!
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  2. Posts : 13,354
    Windows 7 Professional x64
       #2

    Have you tried uninstalling and reinstalling VLC?
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  3. Posts : 501
    Windows 7 Home Premium (64 bit)
       #3

    Could you do us a favour and fill out your system specs please :)
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  4. Posts : 7
    Windows 7
    Thread Starter
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    hybridfan said:
    Could you do us a favour and fill out your system specs please :)
    The summary that Speccy gave:

    Operating System
    MS Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
    CPU
    AMD Athlon II X4 620 31 °C
    Propus 45nm Technology
    RAM
    4.0GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 666MHz 9-9-9-24
    Motherboard
    PEGATRON CORPORATION VIOLET6 (CPU 1)
    Graphics
    HP 2009 Series Wide LCD Monitor on NVIDIA GeForce G210
    2304MB GeForce G210 (Unknown) 51 °C
    Hard Drives
    500GB Western Digital WDC WD50 00AAKS-65V0A SCSI Disk Device (IDE)
    Optical Drives
    HL-DT-ST BDDVDRW CH10L SCSI CdRom Device
    GXAJKF S5YZ0PYR SCSI CdRom Device
    Audio
    Realtek High Definition Audio
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  5. Posts : 7
    Windows 7
    Thread Starter
       #5

    Jonathan_King said:
    Have you tried uninstalling and reinstalling VLC?
    I'd rather not but I guess yeah, I'll give that a try right now...
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  6. Posts : 83
    Win7 RTM
       #6

    VLC 1.0.5 Is what i have installed and works great with win7 mutch better then the build before :)
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  7. Posts : 12,364
    8 Pro x64
       #7

    It may be worth looking at the audio / video output options

    Tools> Preferences > Audio

    It may be a incorrect setting, or even a codec conflict with the HP MediaSmart Video app.

    What source file type are you trying to watch?
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  8. Posts : 7
    Windows 7
    Thread Starter
       #8

    smarteyeball said:
    It may be worth looking at the audio / video output options

    Tools> Preferences > Audio

    It may be a incorrect setting, or even a codec conflict with the HP MediaSmart Video app.

    What source file type are you trying to watch?
    Tbh I'd be really surprised if it was an audio problem causing it to crash, I think the weird sound stuttering is just a brief side effect of the computer suddenly cutting out.

    As for the file type, most recently it was when I played an MKV file (i.e. a Bluray rip, so high bitrate etc) but it also happens when I'm playing anything as average as an AVI file. I haven't tested it to see if any particular file type makes it crash faster, but could it be that VLC is just screwing with the RAM or something and causing a crash?

    (PS don't know if RAM is actually what it would be affecting, my PC knowledge covers programs and not much else )
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  9. Posts : 108
    Windows 7 Home Premium
       #9

    Check if windows media player is screwing up as well (Windows media player can play all avi files just fine). If it is also, then it is your graphics driver that is causing your problem. Otherwise, it is vlc.
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  10. Posts : 1
    Windows 7
       #10

    Similar Problem Here


    I'm having a similar poblem here. I had Windows XP on this PC before and no problems. Upgraded to Windows 7, and when playing video in Media Player Classic Home Cinema (MPC), the PC occasionally hangs. Nothing works, no sound, the keyboard caps lock light doesn't even change. Resetting is the only way to carry on.

    I've had the problem with WMP once, though not as frequently as with MPC (so I use WMP for now). I've also had it with Youtube vidoes once (though I do watch alot of videos, and only happened once so far). No problems with games though (so far Geometry Wars at 1080p and Bob Came in Pieces - not the most demanding games).

    I'm thinking it could be to do with a GPU based video acceleration fault, as once (though I've never seen it after any other hangups when checking) the Event Viewer shown that UVD (on recent ATI GPU for offloading Video playback) had started about when it hung.

    I have the latest ATI drivers for my GPU, the 10.2 hotfix for ATI HD 2600 Pro AGP (regular drivers don't install on AGP cards anymore, need hotfix version of drivers).
    Last edited by insignia; 08 Mar 2010 at 13:06. Reason: Grammer Correction, Clarification
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