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Ok, I'll continue experimenting. Thanks a lot.

Ok.... I think this has something to do with the switchable graphics problem I've not yet solved. Thanks! EDIT: I tried all the available plugins. Only GLX Video Output (XCB) gives a video output, and that too becomes choppy if I enlarge the window/play it in full screen. Any solution to that? Thank...

What do you mean by display freezes? Does the whole desktop freeze, just the VLC UI or just the video rendering area?

The whole display freezes - as in it hangs.

Hi I installed VLC 1.1.4 on my HP dv6-6165tx laptop and it freezes while playing videos (the video output section of VLC goes black, display freezes, but the sound track of the video is audible from speakers). My lappy has Radeon 6770M switchable graphics (with Intel HD graphics 3000- Sandy Bridge i...

Downloading VLC Portable right now.

And I had thought about a Virtual Machine too, but the PCs here are ancient - 512MB RAM, ancient dual-core processors.

Thanks a lot!!

Hi gurus We have Fedora 11 in our college PCs and we don't have root access. I want to install VLC on the PC. I know that the root password can be reset using a live CD, but assuming one doesn't want to go that far... I read about the compiling it yourselves method, but the PCs don't have the RPM De...