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Posted: **28 Dec 2011 20:55**

I use Avidemux2 2.5.4 to pull sections out of longer videos and typically reencode with xvid. I find that every time I try to play these with vlc 1.3 the clips crash like this:

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Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library
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Assertion failed!

Program: ...
File: misc/picture_pool.c
Line: 266

Expression: picture->i_refcount > 0

For information on how your program can cause an assertion
failure, see the Visual C++ documentation on asserts

(Press Retry to debug the application - JIT must be enabled)
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Abort   Retry   Ignore   
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vlc 1.2 works fine. Also if I re-rip the clip to mp4, it plays without problem.

I've seen that others on the board have attached sample clips but I don't see that option available as I'm composing this message.

Posted: **28 Dec 2011 21:01**

I should add.

I'm on Windows 7 64 bits and normally use the nightly versions for 64 bits (they were broken for a while but are working again). I've tried my xvid clips also with the 32 bit version of vlc 1.3 with the same result (crash - same error message from the msvc runtime).

Posted: **29 Dec 2011 00:40**

For now I suggest you to set ffmpeg-threads to 1 tools->preferences show setting = all input/codecs -> video codec -> FFMPEG -> Threads = 1 save and restart vlc.

Posted: **29 Dec 2011 03:21**

Thanks - that works.

Is there someplace I can watch (say a bug page) that will let me know when the problem is fixed?

Posted: **29 Dec 2011 15:53**

Is there someplace I can watch (say a bug page) that will let me know when the problem is fixed?

Trac should have ticket for this, but I can't find it.

Posted: **31 Dec 2011 13:32**

I created one :

https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/5753

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