vlc crashes windows when trying to play mkv file

[frank_hardy_1]

whenever i try to play this specific .mkv file using vlc media player, my windows (win xp sp3) crashes (blue scree of death error), but it doesn't (and plays perfectly) when i try to play it with windows media player classic (using k lite codec pack v7). below is the media info of the file.
am using vlc v 1.1.7

General
Unique ID : 200957593168416552684159664776177615114 (0x972F064DB9D8EF01951FF78E0365810A)
Complete name : F:\The.Passion.of.the.Christ.2004.720p.BluRay.x264.mkv
Format : Matroska
File size : 748 MiB
Duration : 2h 6mn
Overall bit rate : 827 Kbps
Encoded date : UTC 2011-03-05 17:19:52
Writing application : mkvmerge v4.0.0 ('The Stars were mine') built on Jun 6 2010 16:18:42
Writing library : libebml v1.0.0 + libmatroska v1.0.0

Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : High@L4.0
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 8 frames
Codec ID : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Duration : 2h 6mn
Nominal bit rate : 789 Kbps
Width : 1 280 pixels
Height : 534 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 2.35:1
Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.048
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Writing library : x264 core 112 r1867 22bfd31
Encoding settings : cabac=1 / ref=8 / deblock=1-1 / analyse=0x3:0x133 / me=umh / subme=9 / psy=1 / psy_rd=1.00:0.00 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=24 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=2 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / fast_pskip=1 / chroma_qp_offset=-2 / threads=16 / sliced_threads=0 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / interlaced=0 / constrained_intra=0 / bframes=3 / b_pyramid=2 / b_adapt=2 / b_bias=0 / direct=3 / weightb=1 / open_gop=0 / weightp=0 / keyint=250 / keyint_min=23 / scenecut=40 / intra_refresh=0 / rc_lookahead=60 / rc=2pass / mbtree=1 / bitrate=789 / ratetol=1.0 / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=10 / qpmax=51 / qpstep=4 / cplxblur=20.0 / qblur=0.5 / ip_ratio=1.40 / aq=1:1.00
Language : English

Audio
ID : 2
Format : AAC
Format/Info : Advanced Audio Codec
Format profile : HE-AAC / LC
Codec ID : A_AAC
Duration : 2h 6mn
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel positions : Front: L R
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz / 24.0 KHz
Compression mode : Lossy
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Text
ID : 3
Format : UTF-8
Codec ID : S_TEXT/UTF8
Codec ID/Info : UTF-8 Plain Text
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[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Update video drivers.