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I'm on Windows SP3. If I press Ctrl-Alt-Delete during playback, VLC 1.1pre2/pre4 will crash silently, but immediately. 1.0.0 GoldenEye does not crash.

Crashing happens regardless of video type. I've tried playing several videos of different formats: flv, avi, mpeg, dvd. Audio files do not cause a crash.
When I reproduce this crash through vlcj, the Dr. Watson error cites libmemcpymmxext_plugin.dll.

Let me know if you need more information.

Can anyone confirm that?

It also crashes as described on this Win2k (sp4) workstation. 1.0.0 GoldenEye is fine.

No crash here. Windows XP SP2, VLC 1.1.0-pre4.

nice... Reproducable and such...

I have another Windows XP machine, but it was SP2. I can confirm that it doesn't crash there.

Maybe this is an SP3/SP4 issue? Can anyone confirm with Vista/7?

I also created the following ticket: http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/3653

Try to deactivate the video in preferences and do the same.

I tried the following
- deactivating video
- loaded video file
- music plays
- ctrl-alt-delete: music still plays
- activated video
- loaded video file
- video plays
- ctrl-alt-delete: video crashes

Also, I verified that this crashes on another SP3 machine.
Hope this helps

Ok, can you try the same with the dummy video output? (you shouldn't see anything)

Also doesn't crash: Preferences -> Video -> Output -> Dummy video output function
HTH

Hmm, so can you try Direct3D ?

Okay. I went through each of the Video Output options on vlc-1.1.0-rc-20100523-0202 (restarting before each load). It seems that only DirectX (DirectDraw) causes it it crash. All the others work.

Also, I tried DirectX on vlc-1.2.0-git-20100523-0002. It doesn't crash.

Hope this helps.

It does help, thanks.