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I think I've figured out more of this problem. I'm using Debian Stable (Sarge) and VLC 0.8.2svn as a client on a Microsoft Xbox.

This problem mostly comes when launching VLC with a GUI from X, when connecting to a stream it can often experiance the problem of a segmentation fault and simply die. This happens much less often when launching VLC from the console in an SSH connection infact most of the time it'll run and connect to the stream just fine from SSH. I dunno why.

So I'm wondering what I can do to avoid this problem, since VLC dieing when it starts something up is a big problem. :/

I'm wondering if someone can tell me exactly how to start VLC from the console by SSH and still have it start up the GUI to display video on the machines display. Currently everything I've done results in the video floodding my SSH session window with the video translated to ASCII. :/

There is a known problem that you simply cannot use X11 forwarding with VLC: it crashes. But anyway, SSH/X11 would most likely be way too slow (you can't send an uncompressed video stream through any common network).