When selecting on the slider where exactly you want to play the file, this does not work for the first 1/3 of the slider.. selecting the position only works when selecting in 2/3 of the song\video file.
My explantion at the top isnt very good heres an example.
e.g. slider
|----X----------------------|
so you cannot select a position before the X and its only possible after it. the only possible way to slect anything before X is to select after the X and drag the slider before the X.
I am using vlc-0.8.6-svn-20060629-0001-win32.exe.