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Thanks for the suggestions. I had --enable-release. I used pretty much the same options that the wiki gives as a typical configure command: ./configure --enable-x11 --enable-xvideo --disable-gtk --enable-sdl --enable-avcodec --enable-avformat --enable-swscale --enable-mad --enable-libdvbpsi --enable...

Bootstrap worked, thanks! Actually the wiki has nice step by step instructions on how to build. However, the current development version is actually more choppy (and less stable) on my ThinkPad Ubuntu laptop than 0.9.8a. I'll experiment with the build options.

The clip works fine form me on Ubuntu using VLC 0.9.8a running on a ThinkPad T61 laptop. I didn't make any special changes to settings as far as I recall, but I installed several components from Ubuntu suggested on Ubuntu forums before I got it to work. On the other hand, it doesn't work at all on m...