OK, I was vague in my post, hopefully this extra info will help.
Someone already posted a crash log, that was very similar to mine. It does seem like this specific problem may be G3 related, the people that have the G4s don't seem to have the exact same issue (they report the error upon quitting it seems). Someone looking at the crash report once told me that it was an error related to calling a G4 specific command on a G3, but I am not sure they were correct (but they may have been).
It only happens with Mpegs, and only when it is the first file played. Once I have received the error I can open another Mpeg and it will not give the error as long as I have not quit VLC since receiving the error. it does not seem to happen with avi files at all.
So - an example:
VLC is not running.
I double click on an Mpeg.
VLC pauses for a while longer than usual, and then starts playing with no picture for a moment (audio is OK and the progress indicator is moving along).
The error then comes up, and as soon as that happens the video is displayed and plays correctly.
I can then close the video (but not the program) and open another mpeg without this happening again.
I should also mention that this started happening at some point in the fall when I was running OSX 10.2 and VLC 0.6.0 (I think!)- but it worked fine originally. I have since formatted and installed 10.3 (currently 10.3.2) and it has always given the error on this install for mpegs (using VLC 0.6.2 (I think) and now with 0.7.0). Sorry I can't be sure about the old version numbers for VLC, it was a while ago and I wasn't really paying attention to it at the time.
Please let me know if you need more specific information, I will try to do what I can. Email me at
bug@insectile.com if you like.