The Saturday 02 February 2013 02:08:16, Thierry Chatelet wrote : Doing some more trials, I started more intances of vlc, no one could be killed! So at one point OI had more than 10 of those. I decided (dont kill me, please) to go stupid $W way and restarted the laptop (was up for 2 and a half month, a shame to restart), and the problem was solved, ie: vlc starts and stops. Thierry