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This isn't a big deal I guess, as I generally revert to the non-skinned interface and it works fine. However, with each version (latest I tried is 1.1.4), I try to load a skin. It will work fine and then randomly crash. It generally seems to be when I click on it or am trying to do something. It seems like it takes an hour or so before it crashes, but when it crashes it generally makes my display all messed up, kind of like Windows missed a refresh request. If I drag a window around it will all refresh and generally be back to normal.

I am using XP64 on a laptop with an external monitor as a second display in dualview configuration (independent display on each like one big monitor). It is an NVIDIA Quadro FX 2500M.

Is anyone else seeing this kind of behavior?

Thanks.

Im having the same problem.

Every skin I use freezes after 1-2 hours. The only skin that doesnt freeze is the "native style" skin which comes as the default skin in vlc.

Im using Windows 7 64bit.

a gdi resource leak has just been reported and fixed in the skin engine on the Windows port. This issue could indeed lead to a freeze after using vlc for a few hours.

The fix was applied in both the vlc1.1 and vlc1.2 branches. It would be a good thing if you could test it with a nightly build (for instance, http://nightlies.videolan.org/build/win ... 0919-0203/) or just wait for the next minor release.

Im testing...thanks!

Yeah that fixed it.

Thanks a lot.