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Hi, everyone ! Since it was me who started this thread, I shall post here the solution in hope it might be helpful for someone. VLC stopped playing due to missing and outdated shared libraries. Apparently, SuSE YaST did not trace all the dependencies needed for VLC update. Download VLC code, and try...

In YaST I can see libavcodec52 is installed

Well ... Apparently there is some mistake in rpm command line options.
But if we execute: rpm -q "vlc" "libav"
we get:
vlc-0.9.4-4.1
package libav is not installed

What libav package is ?
I thought YaST has to install whatever libraries are needed.

I have updated VLC player from version 0.8.something to 0.9.4, using the standard YaST procedure. Previously it worked perfectly well, now it doesn't work at all. On some files it just crashes, and I see in /var/log/messages file a message: "vlc[4575]: segfault at 00002af000000013 rip 00002af0d...