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Well, what should I do?

Buy another sound device.

No, thank you.

My mainboard has on-board sound, and I don't intend to buy a new PC just because VLC player appears to be incompatible with certain hardware configurations. I have now deinstalled VLC and will use another video player.

This is exactly the same problem that I reported here a short time ago - http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=56881&p=196176#p196014 I have a Asus K8N mainboard with Nvidia nForce3 250 chipset. There are no problems with any other players. You say this is a driver issue. Well, what...

Sorry, I can't tell. I have just a few DVDs, and the files appear to be copy protected. I can't copy them to hard disk and play them from there.

No, it does not help. I tried "Standard", "Windows GDI" and "DirectX", but always the same problem. After clicking on the "close" button, the VLC window closes, then (~ 5 seconds later) the PC hangs and has to be restarted with the reset button. Perhaps I shou...

Exactly the same problem with my PC. Computer freezes completely after a DVD video is stopped and the "close" button is clicked. No response to keyboard or mouse movements any more. PC has to be restarted with the reset button. No such issue with any other video player or another program. ...