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I've found an easy work around for now. Go to your VLC video preferences, and check the box to keep VLC "Always on top". Tools > Preferences > Video > Always on top Now, even if VLC does lose focus, it doesn't crash when exiting fullscreen in a dual monitor environment. Hope this helps ;-)

Ooops! Spoke too soon. I upgraded my video drivers yesterday, for my Radeon HD 4600to Catalyst V10.7. The release notes said they had added GPU acceleration of h.264 video in VLC V1.1.1. So I happily upgraded, only to find that the "exiting from fullscreen without focus" bug has come back....

Woot!
The full screen crash I was experiencing above has now been fixed with the release of v1.1.2.
At least it has stopped my particular problem. Hopefully all you guys too.
Nice one dev team

Hi all, Been a long time user of VLC, and never really had any problems with it, but now I'm having a similar problem (with VLC 1.1.0 and the latest 1.1.1) I've noticed tho that VLC only freezes upon exiting fullscreen at the end of a video if , and only if, VLC has lost focus. I have 2 monitors so ...