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I just installed the new version of VLC and I noticed that little issue - so far - with the new version: AVI files simply crash the player. No message, no error code, nothing. Just crash. The files are DivX/Xvid and MP3 audio, old TV-Nihon encodes and was no issue with version 2.0.8. I don't have any other codecs installed. Only iTunes.
System is: Windows 7 Home Premium 32 bit and Geforce GT 440 VGA.

I had this same issue too after upgrading to 2.1.0 and found a solution that solves it for my system.

A difference between our systems is that I'm using 64 bit windows and VLC instead of 32.

But check out the thread I found the solution in. It's the third post. While he mentions a specific dll issue I didn't check for that, but in my case, unchecking the Hardware YUV -> RGB conversion option worked.

https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=80376

promodsharma found the solution through other VLC forum users and he credits them there.

There is a thread about crashing when hardware decoding is enabled:

https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=113893

Thanks the help guys! I turned off the Hardware-accelerated decoding to disable and it's OK now. There wasn't any issue with any earlier release. I hope they fix this with next version.

Can you try http://people.videolan.org/~jb/vlc-2.1.1-win32.exe too ?

Hi

Just confirming the same issue with either 2.1.0/2.1.1 (32) and also with 2.1.0 (64) for all avi videos (whatever the audio/video codecs). I'm using Win7 x64 Pro. Note that the workaround consisting in deactivating hardware decoding works, but it is quite bothersome.

Strangely enough, everything works fine with mkv videos.

Can you try VLC 2.1.1, latest nightly build?