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To expand on what bartus11 said,
kill and
killall are designed to send a signal to one or more running processes. They are failing for you because the processes you're trying to kill are already gone when you are trying to kill them.
It sounds like your VLC processes are starting and dying very quickly and whatever parent process started them sees that they failed and is restarting them in an endless loop. You need to kill the process that is starting them AND THEN you need to find out why they are dying instead of doing whatever they are supposed to do.
If you use
ps -fax (instead of
ps -ax), you'll see a column with the header
PPID. That column shows the parent process ID of the process identified by that line. If the PIDs are going up by 3 on each cycle, you may have a case where you have a parent, child, and grandchild. If that is the case, you'll need to find the PPID of the PPID.
However, if the PPID is 1; do not try to kill that PID. It means that the parent of your VLC process died after starting the VLC process. You need to find the intermediate process that started your VLC process before it dies and then find its parent.