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All right, I finally made it to delete the preferences... but I still don't have the video that appears on the screen... I now have an alert message that reads: "macosx: QT doesn't support any appropriate chroma".
Should I only wait until the next QuickTime release?

I did but it remains unchanged. When I click on "Delete_Preferences", an alert message pops up and it reads "Désolé, l'opération n'as pas pu être terminée: une erreur imprévue s'est produite (code d'erreur 2). In short, the opertaion failed due to an error... I still cannot watch vide...

Well, I'm French and I'm not very acquainted with English so I guess it's going to be tricky for me to understand specific computing terms. However, I tried to delete what might have been the preference file... there were actually 2 files, one named CACHEDIR.TAG and the other one was plugins-040be.d...

Don't know what happened! Overnight, I was unable to watch any video file with VLC 0.8.6c. I tried with VLC 0.8.6b but it just was the same thing: the sound is great, but there's no video whatsoever and there is no error message either. Nothing. As if I my .avi or .mp(e)g file is a .wav or .mp4 file...

I can't answer the question 'why?' because I just have no idea "why" but it works. With VLC 8.0, it just works perfectly well. Of course that's not as good as the lattest version but it works and that's the main thing.

AND YES IT WORKS!!!
This is absolutely G R E A T! Thank you VERY VERY much for your help! I'm delighted!

All right, thank you, I followed your instructions and I indeed saw the old released of 8.0 VLC in 2004 but I unfortunately found no proper link to download this previous version. But, I'm currently downloading it on eDonkey. There are few sources, but I have to make do with them. And I apologize fo...

Where do I have to go to find the old VLC 8.0? Where is it downloadable?

Yep, I am in Mac OS X 10.3.9 !

I have exactly the same problem!