The Nightly build (vlc-0.9.0-svn-20070615-0000) doesn't play any AVI's I've tried. I'm assuming this is well known, but I'll put the details here just in case.
This is under windows 2000. The avi's play o.k. in 0.8.6b.
1. Start VLC.exe
2. Select Media-OpenFile
3. Select abc.avi
4. Select Play-Enque
5. Crash (The instruction at 0x78001cf7 referenced memory at 0xffffffff. The memory could not be "read"). The crash appears to be in libvlc.dll.
Is there anything else I can report to help?
-PM