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VLC closes immediately

Postby Tiger612 » 09 Mar 2007 15:39

Had same problem installed older version of VLC and now works like before crash.

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Postby _Pierre_75 » 09 Mar 2007 16:08

I can't answer the question 'why?' because I just have no idea "why" but it works. With VLC 8.0, it just works perfectly well. Of course that's not as good as the lattest version but it works and that's the main thing.

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Postby rjw1rjw2 » 09 Mar 2007 16:44

[all you have to do is install an earlier vlc version--then everything works fine!!

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Last VLC version that works with 10.3.9

Postby friscofrog » 10 Mar 2007 06:02

I, too, suffered the same problem when I upgraded to QT 7.1.5 and having VLC 0.86a broken on my iBook with OS 10.3.9. I tried earlier versions I had archived and anything later than VLC 0.84a crashed on launch. So I recommend that version to download from the Videolan org archives. It works perfectly for me. The downside to reverting to the older versions is a security risk which was fixed in O.86a. I hope the developers can identify the conflict and fix it for the next release. For what it is worth the QT 7.1.5 also broke AVI videos that I use to view in Quicktime with the Perian codec installed. Now that doesn't work on my Intel iMac, but VLC 0.86a (Intel version) works with QT 7.1.5
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Postby znat5 » 10 Mar 2007 06:55

Thanks for the tip rjw1rjw2,

I installed vlc8.0 and I'm back in movie heaven.

wooohooooo! :D

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Thank you

Postby Leah » 10 Mar 2007 23:00

Thanks to the person who posted the link for the previous version.

I was in shock to realise today that VLC just crashed when I opened it. I deleted it, everything to do with VLC all to no prevail.

But now all is well and seems to be working smoother than ever.

Thank you. :D


EDIT: I can't seem to work out how to make screencaps with this version as the newer VLC just had "snapshot" which was lovely.

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Postby chryse » 11 Mar 2007 02:20

Uninstalling QT 7.1.5 is gonna be a huge headache.

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jsp ... 5&tstart=0

But, it seems there is something called "Pacifist" down near the bottom of the thread that may be able to do it fairly painlessly.

Anyone wanna try and report back? I have movie files that can't be played properly on vlc 0.8. :( I get sound but no video, they played ok on vlc0.8.6a

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Postby friscofrog » 11 Mar 2007 04:12

Uninstalling QT 7.1.5 is gonna be a huge headache.

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jsp ... 5&tstart=0

But, it seems there is something called "Pacifist" down near the bottom of the thread that may be able to do it fairly painlessly.

Anyone wanna try and report back? I have movie files that can't be played properly on vlc 0.8. :( I get sound but no video, they played ok on vlc0.8.6a
Try VLC 0.8.4a to see if that works before you try to tinker with uninstalling QT. You can download it here http://download.videolan.org/pub/videol ... 4a/macosx/
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Postby Alport » 11 Mar 2007 05:46

I had the same problem as you all, going on two days trying to figure out how to fix the problem, I had to go back to an old version: vlc-0.8.2, after I installed this version again, BINGO it worked. TRY IT

Al

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thanks rjw1rjw2

Postby confuteplus » 12 Mar 2007 09:09

thanks for helping us 10.3.9 folk out
cheers

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Postby OptimizE » 15 Mar 2007 14:21

Different older versions are available here. Find the newest one that works for you.. 0.8.2 did the trick for me :)

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Postby Joh » 17 Mar 2007 02:15

I hope this issue is fixed soon as I'm running 1.4.6 on an intel processor (haven't updated to 1.4.9 yet, but did update iTunes), and VLC 0.8.4a (which seems to work) isn't available for intels which means I have to run emulated. Watching movies emulated isn't too fast... :(

Maybe I should just re-install MacOS and just leave everything be as default. Just re-installed anyway. :P

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Postby jbuilder » 17 Mar 2007 17:37

Had the same problem after upgrading to 10.4.9 and itunes 7.11.1...read the previous posts and changed to 0.8.4a and now things worked perfectly as before!

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Postby Royboy » 20 Mar 2007 23:35

Well, add me to this list as well.

Running a good solid Mac 10.3.9 on a PPC G5. Hadn't used VLC (0.8.5) in a while, and was surprised when I went to play a video file the other day and VLC would close the second it opened with no warning, alert, or anything else. Tried all the usual "fixes" to no avail. Saw there was a new version (0.8.6a) and downloaded that, and it did the exact same thing.

Took me a bit of searching to finally find this helpful thread on the topic, at least letting me know I wasn't alone with this sudden problem. Like others have mentioned, the only thing that comes to mind, is that I too, updated to the latest versions of iTunes and QuickTime, as I almost always do when new updates are available. Sounds to me like SOMETHING in VLC 0.8.6a is not working correctly with either the latest iTunes, QuickTime, or both.

Sure hope the the VLC experts can get this fixed for us loyal VLC users ASAP, but in the meantime, thanks for the tip on reverting back to earlier versions, as 0.8.4 at least will work!

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OS X 10.3.9 + QuickTime 7.1.5 + VLC 0.8.6a

Postby FuzzMaster » 21 Mar 2007 02:12

I can't see in this thread if anyone else included the message generated in their console log when VLC crashes:

Error locating symbol - dlcompat: Symbol "_JVTDecoOpen" not found

Googling this message turns up a similar problem with TurboTax, for which they released a patch.

With any luck, this is enough info to help the VLC team figure it out.

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Any news?

Postby Leah » 24 Mar 2007 21:00

Any news on an upgrade of VLC or a possiblity of the problem with 8.6 being fixed? :cry:

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Postby thebluerhino » 26 Mar 2007 09:25

I am begining to think its a problem with quicktime 7.1.5, and not vlc at all (this is only on os 10.3.9)

So you can downgrade Quicktime if you want and still use the latest vlc.

Downgrading is a bit tricky but doable here are some good instructions,

http://www.archicadwiki.com/Bugs/QuickT ... C_OSX_10.3

And to download quicktime 7.1.3 (which works) from here.
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/ ... ormac.html

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Nice one love.

Postby Leah » 26 Mar 2007 21:46

That sorted it.
I had heard of Pacifist before but I didn't know how to use it so thanks for the link to the guide.

Quicktime is now downgraded to 7.1.3 and VLC 0.8.6 is working just fine now.
Brilliant. :D

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Postby Royboy » 27 Mar 2007 05:30

So... was it worth the hassle to downgrade to QuickTime 7.1.3 to be able to run VLC 0.8.6a without it closing the second it (VLC) opens? If so, WHY was it worth it? Any additional details and feedback would be GREATLY appreciated. Thanks in advance.

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Postby washablemarker » 04 Apr 2007 22:02

it's worth it becuase vlc plays a lot more different media types than quicktime. it also has a better user interface and there is a playlist type controller panel thingy.

looks like quicktime is trying to sabotaged the vlc project. :shock: jealous bastards.

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Postby vlovej » 19 Apr 2007 13:38

is the quicktime 7.1.5 problem is fix with VLC 0.8.6b?

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Postby Royboy » 20 Apr 2007 04:07

To anyone and everyone that's posted or interested in this topic, please see the following thread if you haven't already:

viewtopic.php?p=108855#108855

I think we're finally getting to the bottom of this!

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Postby vlovej » 20 Apr 2007 10:28

What we should do if we have no "Application Enhancer" install?

This solution seems to be for the people who still have install "Application Enhancer".

HELP !!!!

OS 10.3.9
F..#@..!! QT 7.1.5

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VLC closes immediately

Postby pwbrez » 25 Apr 2007 18:35

I had the same problem with vlc0.8.6b closing when I tried opening a VIDEO_TS directory on a G4 powerbook 10.4.9. In VLC I went to 'Preferences' 'Video' 'Output Module', make sure 'Advanced' box is checked, and I changed from 'Default' to 'Quartz video', and then everything worked hunky-dory.

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Postby Royboy » 02 May 2007 19:13

Update:

Just upgraded to QuickTime 7.1.6 and now VLC 0.8.6b opens and plays WITHOUT having to have VLC in the Master Exclude list of Unsanity's Application Enhancer 2.0.3.

Still having the VERY annoying problem – as MANY others seem to be as well – of VLC crashing upon closing/quitting – sometimes it takes several seconds before the crash dialog box comes up, so I don't know if it's REALLY crashing or what?!

I'm running an otherwise good, solid, Mac OS 10.3.9.


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