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I was using VLC player 8.6.something before for several months. Everything worked perfectly.

Yesterday, for no reason whatsoever other than having some spare time on my hands, I decided to upgrade it. I saw that VLC 0.9.6 was the latest version, and I downloaded it directly from this site and installed it. After installation, I noticed several things had broken:

• 1. I could no longer play *.flv videos that I had downloaded from YouTube. I could play them with my older VLC just fine.

• 2. On many occasions, quitting from VLC would give me an error message (something along the lines that it had performed an illegal operation, press OK to quit, Cancel to debug.

• 3. Moving the slider often crashed the application. If I tried to click/drag the progress slider forward to skip some portion of the video, the VLC application would freeze. Sometimes it would recover after a while, at other times I had no recourse other than to exit and restart.

Needless to say, this was a serious disappointment, since my previous version had worked fine with no problems.

So I downloaded 0.8.6 from your site and installed it. The other problems described above (2 and 3) are gone, but it still won't play *.flv files, which it used to before I started messing with 0.9.6.

After reading the forums a bit I decided to try 0.8.4, which some people had recommended. Again, it no longer gives error messages and doesn't crash, but it still won't play *.flv files.

Can anyone offer any suggestions?

I am using Windows XP (32 bit) with all the latest updates from Microsoft. My DirectX is the most recent version. My video drivers are all new. Nothing else has changed on my computer other than the version of VideoLan.

Any help is much appreciated. Thanks!

1. Bug in 0.9.6 version, will be fixed soon (take 0.9.7 or 0.9.4 to fix it)
2. When you do what ?
3. What files?

1. Bug in 0.9.6 version, will be fixed soon (take 0.9.7 or 0.9.4 to fix it)
2. When you do what ?
3. What files?

Thanks for the reply.

Is 0.9.7 available, and if so, what is the URL to obtain it.

In answer to your other questions:

2. As I said, in my original post, when I quit the application. If I am playing a video file (any file, divx, flv, whatever), and I exit VLC, I get an error message. This message is one of two types. I do not remember the exact words, but in one case it gives me two choices: press ok to exit program or cancel to debug; and in the other case it gives me an option to send an error report to Microsoft. Both types of errors have happened, I see no pattern to predict which will happen on any given quit.

3. This happens with AVI files.

0.9.6 new binaries do fix 1.