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32b VLC 2.1.1, HD3000 and VLC crashes with HW decoding on

AVI with H264 OK
AVI with XviD crash
MP4 with H264 OK

I use the 32bit version and it crashes!
Did someone test VLC 2.1.0 before releasing it?

Did you try any of the Release Candidates?

I tested dozen of movies in AVI container and all make crash VLC 2.1.0 release (both 32 and 64 bits).

There is a fix (workarround) to VLC 2.1.0 release:

Tools / Preferences / Show settings = All / Video /Output modules / Direct3D / Use hardware blending support = UNCHECK


VLC is by far the best player, but this time, you guys screwed this bad... poor QC, poor testing, and poor programming.
This is a very serious bug, shame on VLC 'n00b' programmers, released this as a major update and it plainly doesnt work out of the box for the AVI format... LOL... just test half dozen avi movie torrentes, before rush uploading untested major updates.

The guy responsible for this? We want a name. Fire him from the project!

There is a fix (workarround) to VLC 2.1.0 release:

Tools / Preferences / Show settings = All / Video /Output modules / Direct3D / Use hardware blending support = UNCHECK

Right now I'm using 2.1.1. That does nothing. My vlc still dies.

I'm also experiencing this problem. With both 2.0.3 & 2.1.0 versions. What I've noticed is that after playing a DVD, then closing the program and re-opening to play any another file it will crash to the desktop.

Intel i7-930 (not overclocked)
Windows 7 Pro SP 1
AMD Video Drivers: Catalyst 13.9

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: vlc.exe
Application Version: 2.1.0.0
Application Timestamp: 523f7ac4
Fault Module Name: vlc.exe
Fault Module Version: 2.1.0.0
Fault Module Timestamp: 523f7ac4
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 000018ad
OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.48
Locale ID: 1033

Thanks for the help.