vlc-2.0 interface sometimes lacks for seconds. This occurs most commonly when changing the volume but can also effect the window resize. It happens regularly but I haven't found a pattern yet how to reproduce it intentionally. Such a thing never happened with vlc-1.x. Reproducible: Sometimes [ebuild R ~] media-video/vlc-2.0.0 USE="X a52 aac alsa avcodec avformat dbus dirac dvbpsi%* dvd encode ffmpeg flac fontconfig gcrypt gnutls kate lua matroska mmx modplug mp3 mpeg musepack ncurses ogg opengl png postproc qt4 schroedinger sdl speex sse svg swscale taglib theora truetype udev v4l vorbis x264 xcb xml xv -aalib (-altivec) -atmo (-audioqueue) -avahi -bidi -bluray -cdda -cddb -dc1394 -debug (-direct2d) -directfb (-directx) (-dshow) -dts -dvb (-dxva2) -egl -fbosd -fluidsynth -gme -gnome -growl -httpd -ieee1394 (-ios-vout) -jack -kde -libass -libcaca -libnotify -libproxy -libsamplerate -libtar -libtiger -linsys -lirc -live (-macosx) (-macosx-audio) (-macosx-dialog-provider) (-macosx-eyetv) (-macosx-qtkit) (-macosx-quartztext) (-macosx-vout) (-media-library) -mtp (-neon) -omxil -optimisememory -oss -portaudio -projectm -pulseaudio -pvr -rtsp -run-as-root -samba -sdl-image -shine -shout -sid -skins -sqlite -switcher -twolame -upnp -vaapi -vcdx -vlm (-waveout) -win32codecs (-wingdi) -wma-fixed -xosd -zvbi
well, really, there isnt much i can do for this, maybe you should try to contact upstream so that they can give you some advice on what to look at
