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Downgrading from Realtek 4.06 to 3.74 (MSI's the only working mirror I can find) seems to have solved the problem. Clearly an issue with the way VLC/AC3 accesses Realteks latest driver.

Just installed another PCI SoundBaster sound card; and it looks at have fixed it. Must either be a specific problem with AC3/VLC and the way it accesses some Realtek onboard systems; or the way another library or application does. Please do the following yotomote; still wanna track down the exact na...

yes its related to the AC3 sound, but it is also a VLC problem as both windows media player and bsplayer play the video files just fine and no freezing happens when the video is stopped (with AC3filter 1.51a installed) Running 1.46 Stable myself. When did your problem start? And did it coincide wit...

Also completely different hardware than Nigholith, i have: Nvidia gforce 4 mx, amd xp 2600, windows xp sp2, onboard realtek sound card Foolishly, I didn't consider it could be a sound problem. I've recently reverted from a PCI Soundblaster card back to my onboard Reaktek AC'97 system; upgrading mos...

So far as I can determine; there aren't any damaged devices, and upon this fault I reinstalled DirectX 9.0c and every other system driver I could think of that could possibly cause the error. Not to mention that having the problem for the last four days, no other program has been playing up; includi...

After upgrading from 0.8.6 to 0.9.6, any video freezes the operating system shortly after it finishing, stopping, or if I terminate the application using any means. This seems to occur with any format and any codec; but only video files. I've tried uninstalling and redownloading 0.9.6, without succe...