I had the same error on fedora fc8 (yeah I know, don't ask!) rm ~/.vic; vlc -vvv --no-plugin-cache revealed the following error: cannot load module `/usr/lib/vlc/codec/libffmpeg_plugin.so' (libmp4v2.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory) with a yum install libmp4v2 ( apt-ge...