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That did it. VLC works now. There were two libraries, one for glx and one for opengl. I moved them both out of VLC's folder into a holding area until nVidia fixes their driver and I can re-enable GLX. So, thank you for prompt and kind help. I suggest error checking during plug-in loads. Thank you!

to avoid the crash, just don't use opengl output in vlc you can use X11 if XVideo doesn't work with a compositing manager The crash happens at launch. I mean just opening the program without any file. This is VLC checking its plugins list, I think. Is there any option to tell VLC to ignore OpenGL o...

The recent and buggy 1.0.96xx nVidia driver only works with GLX disabled. See my report: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=87332&page=8 Now while X.org works that way, without GLX, VLC and mplayer crash hunting for OpenGL viz plugin support. At least that is my impression. I could...