It was MAY 2016, VLC still needs numeros time to get started. And than
it starts with over9000 instances. I wonder whose bug is it, VLC's or
Ubuntu's?
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Perhaps VLC could by default start playing without having discovered
whether subtitles exist? That wouldn't eliminate the problem, but it
would be experienced by a much smaller group of people, and the problem
would go from "video doesn't play" to "sometimes subtitles take a while
to start", which
Could subtitle autodetection be optimized so that VLC would be more
responsive? Another option is to disable autodetection by default.
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1264102
Title:
There are no ways to optimize directory enumeration so long as GVFS
hides the directory behind CUSE. Local filesystems cannot be polled,
VLC will get stuck in kernel space for however long it takes GVFS to
generate a result.
The only way to fix this on VLC side is to supply the SMB URL instead.
** Summary changed:
- VLC takes long time to start playing a file given as GVFS path
+ VLC takes long time to start playing a video file given as GVFS path in a
directory containing a lot of files
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** Description changed:
- The problem files are located in certain folder, whose name is music.
- Files on other folders play fine. If I copy a problematic file to
- another folder, it plays fine there, but not in the music folder. And
- while it is trying to start to play the file, vlc does not
Kaffeine gets the same path to a GVFS mount as VLC. Listing the files of
a directory by ls takes about 4 seconds. The delay before playing a file
in the directory takes about a minute.
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I disabled Autodetect subtitle files in VLC settings, and thereafter
there is no such delay.
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1264102
Title:
VLC takes long time to start playing a
