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I don't get any picture when i start a movie in it.. i'm running Ubuntu Edgy 6.10

The problem is related to FFmpeg suggest you to recompile FFmpeg with this option, then recompile VLC with the new FFmpeg.

--enable-xvid --enable-a52 \
--enable-libogg --enable-gpl \
--enable-pp \
--enable-faac --enable-faad \
--enable-dts \
--enable-a52bin --enable-vorbis \
--enable-faadbin
--enable-pthreads