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I'm using Ubuntu Feisty with XGL and GNOME. When I open a file in VLC, and then go into full screen mode, it plays okay, but as soon as you exit full screen or stop playing the file, it crashes X and the X server has to restart. This only happens when I use XGL though. I'm using the OpenGL output mo...

I encountered this too. Here's what I discovered: Using the browser in GNOME, when you access a file on an SMB share, the file path will be something like smb://server/share/file.avi VLC apparently doesn't know how to handle the smb:// path. In short, to fix the problem, you'll need to mount the fil...

Try reading the Ubuntu Guide

http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu:Feisty

It's a great guide that will help you install VLC amongst other things. Of course not having internet access might be a problem.