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no. He means debian-multimedia.org

start vlc from a console with : ulimit -c unlimited && vlc -vvv --reset-plugins-cache
if it crash attach the core file in gdb and get a backtrace gdb vlc core*; bt

uninstall your unofficial libav* including libavutil50 and use the ones from debian and it will work

-V x11

Do you happen to have install ffmpeg(libavcodec, libavutil, libavformat) from an unofficial repository ?
Is libavutil50 present on your system ?

Of course it is the failure. Remi's point is: The problem happens whike compiling the contribs. It seems that either ffmpeg svn was broken when you got it or you copy is broken. So try again. The real question though is why are you using the contribs ? It normally reserved for crappy OS without prop...

Should show the reason of the problem

Satrt vlc from a console with vlc -vvv and provide the logs

Add -vvv to your command line.

You might be bitten by http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=539946

Try the debian package or wait for vlc 1.0.4-1 to arrive in ubuntu

try with --rc-fake-tty

do you have more luck with "vlc channels.conf" and then picking nine from the playlist ?

Aslo snr at 0 seems strange (or is it in some strange unit where 0 is very good)

vlc 0.9.0

Are you kidding me ?
the latest release of vlc is 1.0.4.

And if you really needs one of the 0.9 branch take 0.9.9

../libtool: line 847: X--tag=CC: command not found ../libtool: line 880: libtool: ignoring unknown tag : command not found ../libtool: line 847: X--mode=compile: command not found ../libtool: line 1014: *** Warning: inferring the mode of operation is deprecated.: command not found ../libtool: line ...

Installing random package (not even targetted at the same distro) is quite risky

So check if the module is there or not:

vlc --no-plugins-cache --list |grep zvbi

If not fill a whislist bug in launchpad

We are not supporting ancient VLC version (and i Guess Fedora is not supporting acient version either)

So please use recent version i.e. VLC 1.0.x and FC11 or FC12

Check if you don't have unofficial libav* package . In particular if you have libavutil50

Yes it's becasue framebuffer doesn't work that it falls back to x11.
Remi's command line will avoid it from falling back to x11

I'm getting the same error message. so how does one build the fluidsynth plugin? ./configure --help |grep fluidsynth How do I know if I've already built it? vlc --list |grep fluidsynth Where in Preferences do we configure the wavetable? P.S. I'm using Ubuntu 9.10. In VLC/Preferences/[Input/Codecs]/...

Better desactivate loop filter in the ffmpeg or avcodec preferences of VLC

start vlc from a console with -vvv in order to get some log

And read HACKING

--program or in the navigation menu

It's very very likely to be a video card driver bug

Does it works with other media player. have you check the audio menu ? have you tried with other audio output module (alsa, pulse) ?