VLC cannot play MKV files?

[René J.V. Bertin]

On Saturday January 23 2016 12:10:54 Vincent Habchi wrote:
Hi,

>I’ve a strange problem with VLC. Clicking on a MKV file will not crash the app, but it will go into a sort of infinite loop, as if it was not finding anything to play inside the file and kept on trying again.
>
>ffplay with the same file works fine, though, so this is not a library issue.

Any MKV file? What VLC version?

What does the VLC log tell you (either in-app or by launching the app bundle executable directly from a terminal, with the -vvv argument)?

R.