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That was the workaround for slow mkv on snow leopard right ? Then that change was already done.

ls -la
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 1 sep 23:27 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 19 mai 15:09 ..
drwxr-xr-x 38 root wheel 1292 23 sep 20:22 fontconfig

Me again, I've 'remux' an mkv extracting subs and embedded fonts.
Got no problems playing the file.

Now leave it to you guys, good luck

By the way I tried to play .avi files with external .srt and got no problems.

Same problem here (VLC 1.0.2 64bits)
But It's just with the simple view.With the advanced view it works like a charm.

VLC will crash trying to render an mkv Seems to be related to subtitles (fonts): Thread 13 Crashed: 0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff8105fc00 strlen + 16 1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff810666f8 strdup + 28 2 libass.4.dylib 0x00000001166aeea0 fontconfig_init + 64 3 libass.4.dylib 0x00000001166b0521 ass_s...