VLC media player does not run a second time after its closed

This is for VLC 3.0.12.1 Vetinary, installed via snap on Linux GA-880GM-USB3 4.15.0-70-generic #79 (closed)~16.04.1-Ubuntu x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux. The same issue is reported here: https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/ccc2c5/vlc_media_player_does_not_run_a_second_time_after/

Firstly, why is someone posting the issue on Reddit, when they could have reported the bug to VLC? Perhaps it has something to do with the registration process here. When I tried creating an account and entered my username as "nav", I was shown the error message "Warning: username %s doesn't match local naming policy". What on earth is a user supposed to understand from that?!!

Back to the VLC issue. The problem does not happen if I pause the video and then close it. But if I close it while the video is running, the bug shows up. So perhaps a simple temporary fix would be to just call the pause function when you detect that the window is being closed. The permanent solution would obviously be to find out if there's a memory leak or resources are not being closed properly on program exit.