I have been having a lot of VideoLAN (VLC) crashes on several Macs running Leopard (Mac OS X 10.5.8). It turns out NOT to be related to any ~/Library/Preferences settings as most of the forums and blogs imply, but it is a well known bug with the newest 32/64bit versions on Leopard.
It takes effort, but if you visit the Mac OS versions page on VideoLAN.org:
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-macosx.html
You can see the latest 32/64 that is an automatic download from the main site, and you can also see the 32bit intel version that does not have the crashing problem.
I did not have to delete any preferences folders nor any plists. I simply needed to use the correct version. Hope this helps you too.
Of course, the new iLife may actually compel me to finally upgrade to Snow Leopard… which makes this whole post moot.
If you don’t know what I am talking about here, VideoLAN (aka: VLC) is one of the strongest cross-platform media players on any platform (Mac, Linux, Windows, Android, iOS, etc) and it plays just about every media type on the planet.
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