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Hello,

my settings make vlc play the second audio line by default.

I watch movie A with audio1 on my TV Screen via S-Video and "Dual View". I set audio1 up manually before starting to watch. In my playlist is movie B which I watch with audio2. By ending the first movie VLC crashes. I can't think of any other reason since it doesn't crash when I watch movies with the same audio line.

I hope I could describe it good enough.

Best regards
tesat

OS: Win XP Pro SP3

Can you always replicate this crash? If so, do you know how to use gdb?

No, i can't. And I don't know what gdb is. If you tell me I am willing to help.

GDB is a debugger which can find the crashing code section. If we cannot replicate the crash, the GDB is about the only thing that can give us some clue what is happening.

Well, then explain what I have to do to help. Where do I find this debugger and what shall I do with it exactly.

you basically need to install mingw (http://www.mingw.org/wiki/Getting_Started) (the GUI installer installs gdb by default)

start your mingw "bash" then run this in it (with vlc.exe in the path, or after $ cd /c/Program Files/VideoLan/VLC)

$ gdb.exe vlc.exe
then
(gdb:1) run <insert your parameters here>

It will die soon, then you type in
(gdb:2) backtrace

and it will show you where it died. Which may or may not be useful.

And if you try that, use VLC debug builds. They provide more info.
http://nightlies.videolan.org/build/win32/?C=M;O=D