VLC not terminating when closed

[Moltke]

VLC process continues to run in the background after closing.
This causes VLC to not respond when trying to open another video.
I have to use the following to terminate the process:

Code:

killall -s 9 vlc

I have tried to change the video output, and all the output formats that solve the issue have trouble playing videos properly.
I have also tried to turn off the hardware accaleration, but it didn't work.

Any suggestions?

This is an old known bug https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?t=149762 Make sure to stop whatever media's been played in VLC before closing it, that is, hit the stop button then close it. For some reason if you don't, then it'll keep running as a zombie process.