I’ve been a big fan of the VLC media player on the Mac and have been using it exclusively as my media player. However at some point the VLC player got very funky and suddenly stopped playing all video content. If you tried opening any video file it would open a blank video window and play the files audio for a few seconds before crashing. I tried deleting the app and getting the latest version on the website but that really didn’t seem to help. After a bunch of web searches and looking on several different forums I seem to have stumbled on a working answer.
1) Quit the application if it is running
2) Delete the VLC folder in /Users/USERNAME/Library/Preferences
3) Delete org.videolan.vlc.plist in /Users/USERNAME/Library/Preferences
4) Delete org.videolan.vlc.plist in /DRIVENAME/Library/Preferences
Restart VLC and it should play videos with no problems
51 replies on “Fixing VLC player crashes on Mac OS X”
A big thank you from April 2020. VLC crashed on one account on the machine, but not on the other. Its hard to beleave, I found the solution on twelve year old posting, while vlc doesn’t have some kind of answer to the penomenon.