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Unless using Debug information in Release mode when linking against the Release or Debug libraries in VS 2010, the player crashes on windows 8.1 x64. It's been doing this for at least 2 years and I'm still not sure if it's on my part or there is something fishy with the nightly builds.

oh my god... thank you!

Greetings, I'm using VLC in a C++ Visual Studio 2010 project. The compiled version of the libraries is found in the vlc-2.1.3-win64-debug/sdk folder and it works great. The problem is that the sdk folder is not present in the release version of the vlc-2.1.3-win64. Why is this folder omitted in rele...

Thank you for your respond Remi, could you elaborate a little on "it depends"?

for instance, let's say we stick to minimum by playing local mov and avi files?

I don't think I need any, which ones are the essentials?

Greetings everyone, I'm doing a C++ wrapper for the VLC player (only play and stop features) and I was quite surprise to see that the API depends on a monstrous folder plugins. Apparently there is no way to get rid of this abomination entirely but I was wondering if it is possible to safely remove d...