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Thanks! That did the trick.

I installed VLC 1.1.0 yesterday and since then I've had a problem where whenever I try to play a video it causes my computer to hang for about 10 seconds before starting. I tried downgrading to 1.0.5 but the problem has persisted. As a note, the problem is now occurring in VLC, Firefox and Media Pla...

I'm having a very similar problem, the Ctrl-Q workaround doesn't seem to work. With my problem, it causes my whole system to hang after a shutdown and it hangs until the tray icon disappears. Edit: Followed steps here: http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=78587, changed to Windows GDI ...