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Hello. I am currently having a big problem with VLC Media Player 2.0.7. What happens is that whenever I play a video, both VLC and Skype will usually crash at the same time (this also sometimes happens for other programs like Virtual PC 2007, and even when the Skype process is ended, VLC will still usually crash.). This is getting VERY annoying. Can somebody please help me with this? Thanks.

Hi there,

It would help if you provide some kind of logging. You could start VLC from the command line and start console. Than you can provide the logging to the experts. The more you give them, the easier it is to help you. Now it's looking for a needle in a haystack.

How do I start the console in command prompt?

First, reset VLC preferences:
http://wiki.videolan.org/Reset_prefs

but:

both VLC and Skype will usually crash at the same time (this also sometimes happens for other programs like Virtual PC 2007...)

sound really bad, probably a driver issue.


How to get to a MS-DOS prompt:
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/chdos.htm

Then run VLC with this command line: You may have to change the path to the destination file for a location folder where you're allowed to write in.
Then post the full resulting log.

Unfortunately, when VLC crashes in the log file mode, it doesn't seem to write anything down that would indicate an error (maybe it crashes before it can write to the file).