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I have been trying to install and run vlc for many months without success.

I have now managed to install vlc on fed4 using yum.

The programme runs but will not play anything giving a segmentation fault after say successfully loading avi file.

I have followed the suggestions within this forum, updated those files that needed it and succeeded in getting a backtrace as below

(gdb) backtrace
#0 0x05919966 in avcodec_decode_video () from /usr/lib/libavcodec.so
#1 0x0810ca95 in __gnu_cxx::__common_pool_policy<__gnu_cxx::__pool, true>::_S_initialize_once ()
#2 0x080a6132 in ?? ()
#3 0x080a63cd in ?? ()
#4 0x00cddb80 in start_thread () from /lib/libpthread.so.0
#5 0x00c359ce in clone () from /lib/libc.so.6

any help in pointing in the right direction to resolve this final hurdle would be much appreciated

This is a crash in the libavcodec library, which is part of ffmpeg.

This is a crash in the libavcodec library, which is part of ffmpeg.

Thanks for your answer. Can you tell me how to remedy the problem?