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I agree VLC is unstable on Windows 8.
I only tested my builds (win32/win64 vlc-2.0-git vlc.git) on VirtualBox, not on real machine on Windows 8.
I couldn't catch the reason why VLC suddenly crashed. gdb didn't help.

As for this issue, you can disable caca library by changing configure line (adding --disable-caca). Anyway, native compilation with Cygwin is not recommended and it's too obsolete method. I recommend Cross-compile with Mingw on Linux or other POSIX systems. http://wiki.videolan.org/Win32Compile Or N...

Please don't ask me to use the latest version

The patch for this issue was applied in VLC 1.1.10 and later.

known issue.
viewtopic.php?f=12&t=98197

I would like to remove the short 3 to 4 sec. showing of the name of the video, that appears in the beginning as a subtitle. I ran through the preferences but I can't find a button to turn it off. You can remove the media title , change the time, and change the position. Preferences -> All -> Video ...

If your video file is on the slow device (e.g. NAS, network share, slow USB device), can you copy it to the fast device (e.g. SATA HDD, SSD)?

The total time of the title is 1:59:53. The subtitles work well when I start playing (drag and drop onto movie window), and drop out at about 1:06:00 - presumably the layer break position. Does the log tell you something when dropping out? (Window -> Messages) Should this issue be reported as a bug...

@nkoriyama: Thanks for the idea! It had not worked, but maybe you have another guess? I'm not sure but you might need libstdc++-6.dll also. As I read the thread, you don't use TDM-GCC. If you use TDM-GCC, the "libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll" error might be disappeared, I think. Using Mingw's official...

Your double quotation marks usage is wrong. It's not an issue of VLC.

When you open the disc (Media -> Open Disc), you have to select BluRay from the disc selection, default is DVD.

file:///D:\flashdrive\MediaForSites4.mov
three slashes are needed.

Blu-ray ISO has not been supported yet.

gcc version 4.6.2 (GCC)
windows error messages refers to: libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll

I think you can execute properly If you copy "libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll" to the same directory where vlc.exe exists or under the PATH environment.

Snapshot format "jpg" doesn't work on VLC 2.0.1. Use "png".
Tool -> Preferences -> Video -> Video snapshots -> Format

At least for me, the svn command works well at the moment. How about trying the command on the terminal? Can you fetch the source via SVN? If you can't, I have no idea... Well, if I were you, I'll modify makefile (or extra/package/win32/package.mak) to skip npapi related things... But please don't a...

You don't have to install qt3-dev-tools. And this error means your qt4 library version is too old. (linux qt4 moc = 4.8.1, contrib qt4 library = 4.7.4) Please build qt4 library yourself or downgrade your qt4 on the linux side (moc command). I don't know you can downgrade or not... if you want to mak...

moc is meta object compiler. http://doc.qt.nokia.com/4.7/moc.html
After deleting the files (moc, uic and rcc) from contrib/$(host-triplet)/bin, you have to re-configure. Because they are scanned when configuring. See config.log.

checking for x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc... no checking for x86_64-w64-mingw32-g++... no Your Mingw-w64 installation is wrong. gcc-mingw-w64 and g++-mingw-w64 packages are also required. YOU DON'T HAVE TO INSTALL gcc-mingw32 mingw32-binutils. Mingw and Mingw-w64 are totally different. Mingw supports onl...

If the MKV has subtitles tracks, you can choose subtitles track by selecting the menu bar: Video -> Subtitles Track.
Or pressing "S" key to cycle subtitles track.

Please install Mingw-w64 v3.0, first. And, according to the log, you used "--host=i586-pc-mingw32msvc", but you have to use "--host=i686-w64-mingw32" when you use the Mingw-w64 toolchain. Please read the wiki http://wiki.videolan.org/Win32Compile, written about "Host triplet...

Typical processing for subtitles: [module (capability, category, subcategory)] [demuxer (demux, CAT_INPUT, SUBCAT_INPUT_DEMUX)] ↓ [es_output] ↓ [codec (decoder, CAT_INPUT, SUBCAT_INPUT_SCODEC)] ↓ [vout_subpictures] ↓ ↓ ↓ [text_renderer (text_renderer, CAT_VIDEO, SUBCAT_VIDEO_SUBPIC)] ↓ ↓ [video_outp...

configure: error: LibVLC requires mingw-runtime version 3.15 or higher, or mingw-w64 version 3.0 or higher! Use mingw-w64 version 3.0. (experimental package mingw-w64-dev_3.0) http://packages.debian.org/experimental/all/mingw-w64-dev/download Or you have to modify configure.ac. http://git.videolan....