AVI files instant crashing VLC 2.1.0

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AVI files instant crashing VLC 2.1.0

Postby Harbinger84 » 02 Oct 2013 10:27

I just installed the new version of VLC and I noticed that little issue - so far - with the new version: AVI files simply crash the player. No message, no error code, nothing. Just crash. The files are DivX/Xvid and MP3 audio, old TV-Nihon encodes and was no issue with version 2.0.8. I don't have any other codecs installed. Only iTunes.
System is: Windows 7 Home Premium 32 bit and Geforce GT 440 VGA.

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Re: AVI files instant crashing VLC 2.1.0

Postby Springbock » 03 Oct 2013 00:29

I had this same issue too after upgrading to 2.1.0 and found a solution that solves it for my system.

A difference between our systems is that I'm using 64 bit windows and VLC instead of 32.

But check out the thread I found the solution in. It's the third post. While he mentions a specific dll issue I didn't check for that, but in my case, unchecking the Hardware YUV -> RGB conversion option worked.

https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=80376

promodsharma found the solution through other VLC forum users and he credits them there.

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Re: AVI files instant crashing VLC 2.1.0

Postby lobster » 03 Oct 2013 00:52

There is a thread about crashing when hardware decoding is enabled:

https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=113893

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Re: AVI files instant crashing VLC 2.1.0

Postby Harbinger84 » 03 Oct 2013 10:27

Thanks the help guys! I turned off the Hardware-accelerated decoding to disable and it's OK now. There wasn't any issue with any earlier release. I hope they fix this with next version.

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Re: AVI files instant crashing VLC 2.1.0

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 08 Oct 2013 00:47

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Re: AVI files instant crashing VLC 2.1.0

Postby enorax » 16 Oct 2013 22:29

Hi

Just confirming the same issue with either 2.1.0/2.1.1 (32) and also with 2.1.0 (64) for all avi videos (whatever the audio/video codecs). I'm using Win7 x64 Pro. Note that the workaround consisting in deactivating hardware decoding works, but it is quite bothersome.

Strangely enough, everything works fine with mkv videos.

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Re: AVI files instant crashing VLC 2.1.0

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 21 Oct 2013 13:12

Can you try VLC 2.1.1, latest nightly build?
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