VLC pauses and takes a while to start playing again when seeking/rewinding the file

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Hello everyone
I copied the title from here. I’ve had this problem since the first fresh installation of manjaro on my laptop
I ran vlc through terminal so that I could see the error messages
It looked like:

VLC media player 3.0.11.1 Vetinari (revision 3.0.11.1-0-g52483f3ca2)
[000055d1ff8205b0] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface.
[00007f7dc4006fa0] gl gl: Initialized libplacebo v2.72.0 (API v72)
[00007f7dc4006fa0] glconv_vaapi_x11 gl error: vaDeriveImage: operation failed
[00007f7dc0049e90] main video output error: video output creation failed
[00007f7dd4c025f0] main decoder error: failed to create video output
[00007f7dc400b010] gl gl: Initialized libplacebo v2.72.0 (API v72)
[00007f7dd4c025f0] avcodec decoder: Using G3DVL VDPAU Driver Shared Library version 1.0 for hardware decoding
[00007f7dd4c025f0] main decoder error: Timestamp conversion failed for 18685001: no reference clock
[00007f7dd4c025f0] main decoder error: Could not convert timestamp 0 for FFmpeg
[00007f7dd4c025f0] main decoder error: Timestamp conversion failed for 32491001: no reference clock
[00007f7dd4c025f0] main decoder error: Could not convert timestamp 0 for FFmpeg
[00007f7dd4c025f0] main decoder error: Timestamp conversion failed for 60602001: no reference clock
[00007f7dd4c025f0] main decoder error: Could not convert timestamp 0 for FFmpeg
[00007f7dd4c025f0] main decoder error: Timestamp conversion failed for 78495001: no reference clock
[00007f7dd4c025f0] main decoder error: Could not convert timestamp 0 for FFmpeg
[00007f7dd4c025f0] main decoder error: Timestamp conversion failed for 87170001: no reference clock
[00007f7dd4c025f0] main decoder error: Could not convert timestamp 0 for FFmpeg
[00007f7dd4c025f0] main decoder error: Timestamp conversion failed for 104980001: no reference clock
[00007f7dd4c025f0] main decoder error: Could not convert timestamp 0 for FFmpeg
[00007f7dd4c025f0] main decoder error: Timestamp conversion failed for 135427001: no reference clock
[00007f7dd4c025f0] main decoder error: Could not convert timestamp 0 for FFmpeg
[00007f7dd4c025f0] main decoder error: Timestamp conversion failed for 156615001: no reference clock
[00007f7dd4c025f0] main decoder error: Could not convert timestamp 0 for FFmpeg

Also when it happens, you can’t close the vlc(it keeps open). The only way is to kill the process
The messages after terminate vlc(ctrl + c) :

uint DBusMenuExporterDBus::GetLayout(int, int, const QStringList&, DBusMenuLayoutItem&): Condition failed: menu
uint DBusMenuExporterDBus::GetLayout(int, int, const QStringList&, DBusMenuLayoutItem&): Condition failed: menu
QObject::~QObject: Timers cannot be stopped from another thread
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Generally issues with VLC can be fixed by selecting hw-accel/output/rendering options (VDPAU, etc)

And … I will just say … I ditched VLC a long time ago in favor of smplayer.
(normally I dont like to just say ‘use this instead’ … but really, try it out)

[edit - found one of the similar threads: Vlc does not end process after closed]

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Thanks for your help
Yeah normally I use mpv but I just wanted to know why vlc acts strange
Also I read them. I change video output to every single option there and tested. No luck

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