Asked By
janesprant
1200 points
N/A
Posted on - 06/28/2011
Hi,
I was at home at weekend and I decided to watch some movies using my computer. I used my VLC player. While in the middle of the movie, all of a sudden the movie stopped and a message pop up my screen, I posted the screen shot below.
VLC media player is not responding
Windows can check for a solution when you go online. If you close the program, you
might lose information.
         → Check for a solution and close the program
            →  Close the program
       → Wait for the program to respond
When this error message was displayed on my screen, I am wondering about the error message. I managed to play some videos days ago, and suddenly now I cannot run VLC. I checked my computer for some viruses that might infect my computer. After a full scan, there was no virus found. I reinstalled VLC and same error persisted when opening a file. Please help me figure out for some solution to my problem.
Thanks.
Answered By
JohnB
0 points
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#123501
VLC Player stop responding in the middle of the movie
Not only VLC experience this problem. If your VLC recently work, this may cause the problem: improper shutdown, corrupted files, and bad sectors/clusters. Even if reinstall your VLC it's useless. Restart your computer. If the CHKDSK loads, don't cancel it and let it finish. All of your bad sectors and cluster are being check and recovered.  If CHKDSK doesn't shows up. Click START, open RUN command. Type chkdsk /f or chkdsk /r (NOTE: the "/r" command takes longer but more effective).
 Restart your Computer. Enjoy!
Answered By
Banaay22
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#123502
VLC Player stop responding in the middle of the movie
Hi,Â
 There are many things you could try (and probably have)Â
 1. Try a different media player
 2. Try a different DVDÂ
 3. Update your codecs (I'm not sure if these are needed to DVD's)Â
 If you're tried all of these, and they haven't work, then the problem might be hardware related.Â
 Have a looking at device manager to see if you DVD ROM drive is active and that it has no issues.Â
 Hope this helps. Post back if you have any more queries or none of the above steps work.
VLC Player stop responding in the middle of the movie
I have meet the same problem to while watching some scary movies then suddenly at middle of the movie VLC crashes and cannot play anymore. thinking it was just some sort of error. i just restarted my pc to see if it plays again but after restart still it wont play, then i tried also re installing, took my copy of installer from my installer folder then re installing same problem it crashes so what i did was i open up a browser Google and found out a new version of VLC which i decided to download.
After browsing and downloading the new version i install VLC with the new fresh download file and see if it works. will it works for me i have watch again… hope my little experience would help you ^_^
VLC Player stop responding in the middle of the movie
Hi, you say the error persisted after you reinstalled the VLC. I think the problem is on your system. It could be that some other programs made a change to your system and it made the VLC unable to work properly anymore. To fix this, you can do a system restore to make your computer return to a state in the past. Just go to Start > All Programs > Accessories > System Tools > System Restore.
Click Next. The next screen will list some Restore Points. Choose the one with the Date and Time closest to the day your VLC crashed (but make sure it's BEFORE your VLC crashed)
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Click Next then Finish.
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Your system will reboot and it will try to return to a past state.
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After you go back to Windows, open the VLC again and see if it works.
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If it's still showing the same message, you might want to try other media player. Try Media Player Classic (https://mpc-hc.org/) or KMPlayer (http://download.cnet.com/KMPlayer/3000-13632_4-10659939.html). Both programs can play almost all video formats just like VLC.
Hope that helps 🙂
