VLC keeps freezing up.

Hi All,

Since the two updates that I installed yesterday ( the mac os 10.13.2 and the iTunes) VLC seems to be freezing up. Last night when I would go to open up a video file it would freeze at beginning of play. The audio would continue but the image was frozen. No way to get out of it without turning off iMac from the power on button in the back. After several times I stopped last night.

This morning I re-installed VLC and it appeared to be working ok until I went to shrink down the video and then it again froze but the audio continued.

Has anyone else been experiencing this?

Thanks in advance.