Ole32.dll crash

[Smitty]

I just downloaded vlc-0.6.2-win32.zip (exe wouldn't download). After extracting it I run the program vlc.exe and I get a crash with a page fault in ole32.dll and then windows explorer crashes completely. Running win98 se. Any suggestions?

[Gibalou]

Hmmm, Actually there has been a few users running Win9x that also have reported this.

This is likely a problem with the GUI toolkit that we are using but I don't know of any way to fix this.

Could you give a try to http://www.videolan.org/pub/testing/vlc ... st1/win32/ ?

I'll also try to do a package with a recent version of the toolkit at some point... it might solve the problem.

[Smitty]

That helped. I can get the program started now, but I still occasionaly get ole32.dll and then explorer crashes, I'd say once every three openings of the program I get crashes, as opposed to 100% of the time with 6.2

If this'll help:

VLC caused an invalid page fault in
module OLE32.DLL at 0167:0117d131.
Registers:
EAX=65f206e8 CS=0167 EIP=0117d131 EFLGS=00210282
EBX=0117d1b7 SS=016f ESP=00b9f958 EBP=00b9f9a8
ECX=82a2cbd8 DS=016f ESI=82a2cef0 FS=436f
EDX=00000006 ES=016f EDI=82a2ac2c GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
ff 50 0c 50 8b ce ff d3 85 c0 74 11 85 ff 74 15
Stack dump:
82b29fa8 82a2cea8 82a2cea8 0117d3cc 82a2cef0 82b29b24 82a2cea8 0117d48b 82a2cea8 00000000 82b29b24 0117d441 82a2cea8 00000000 0097069c 82a2cea8

[Nohbody]

Have you tried resetting your configuration file? In a command prompt type "vlc --reset-config" without the quotes and see if that helps. I just found it out myself.

[Adam Cooley]

Hi, I was getting the ole32.dll error as well -- after using videolan for a long time with no problem even... but now the video is only playing back in ascii mode on the old players... what exactly do i go into to change that?

[ipkiss]

Reset your preferences (there is a button for that in the preferences window)