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marko2010

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Registered: 2010-04-17

Posts: 70

Anyone else notice a problem with VLC's interface recently?

I have been using VLC for years without any notable issues. In the past month the interface has gotten very laggy. It takes longer to select menu items, and the  time slider bar is so unresponsive to be nearly unusable. All the other programs seem to be working fine. Anyone else have any insight on this?

Here is what I tried so far:

I deleted my ~/.config/vlc folder
I tried downgrading to vlc-2.1.5-3
I checked that  video hardware-accelerated decoding is enabled under Tools > Preferences > Input/Codecs

I have Radeon HD 4250 integrated graphics with the open source driver.

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,076

Re: Anyone else notice a problem with VLC's interface recently?

2.1.5 has been somewhat of a buggy release in general (Inclusion of VDPAU decoding but it doesn't actually work, had some crashes here and there) actually reading that you enabled HW acceleration might be a possible cause. From what I've heard most of these should be fixed in 2.2 and upstream even recommends to update to the 2.2 RC if you are on linux, because they apparently fixed many things (read in a mail announcing the RC release, didn't find that particular mail anymore but yeah)