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Is this behaviour of VLC normal?

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8 0 I'm on ubuntu 16.04 unity latest updates installed, I have one of the best Asus gaming laptops in the market, VLC is installed but I never use it. For the last few months, I wasn't able to shut down my PC, every time I try to do so, the fans start spinning so fast and it hangs, so I just press the shut down button, that problem was only on shutdown, not restart I didn't even bother trying to solve the problem. Today, while I was working, I noticed the fans doing the same thing that they normally do while shutting down. I ran top noticed 2 vlc instances being run under my username consuming like 122% cpu each, although again I don't use vlc, and I'm not using any program that relies on vlc. I tried to sudo kill <pid> and sudo killall <pid> and sudo killall vlc but still they w...