Comments on: Fixing VLC player crashes on Mac OS X

By: Octadre

Octadre — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 12:10:58 +0000

Thanks! Still works Dec 2011 w/ slight change!
fyi, as of Dec 2011, “4) Delete org.videolan.vlc.plist in /DRIVENAME/Library/Preferences” is no longer applicable. (osx 10.6.8, mbpro)

By: robert levy

robert levy — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 23:57:19 +0000

i cant live without vlc. thanks for this. very very much.

By: Edwin

Edwin — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 15:13:12 +0000

But after some time, the problem reoccurs.
Another simple solution is to force the windowserver to a stop
In the ” activity monitor” you see that that program consumes a lot of CPU time, when VLC is slow. Why i do not know.
But the trick works all the time. But not for long…
I have not found a permanent solution.

Edwin

By: Mohai

Mohai — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 21:30:43 +0000

Didn’t really think it would work but WOW it fixes it, I had to only delete the first one as there wasn’t a second one
Thanks!

By: Edmund

Edmund — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 02:59:49 +0000

Its fixed my problem. Thank you so much for the solution.

Edmund

By: Edwin

Edwin — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 10:12:23 +0000

TX TX TX
Finally playing VLC without any problem. I tried almost everything

Edwin

By: Ken

Ken — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 12:52:01 +0000

Worked great for me.
Thanks for posting this. You saved me a lot of time.

By: Kasper

Kasper — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:03:43 +0000

Great, thank you very much!

By: Pablo

Pablo — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 01:41:40 +0000

This solution didn’t worked for me either, what it did work was downgrading to version 1.0.0, if this doesn’t work for your either try an older version, I’ve used this player for a long long time and I remember older versions were a lot stabler.

Here is a link to a directory of VLC versions:
http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/

Also remember to click no the first time you run a freshly installed version and it asks you if you want to update automatically.

- Cheers

By: Gnu

Gnu — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 15:25:22 +0000

Thank you very much Man!

I was going to format my mac, but you saved my time!
Your trick helps me to fix the problem that VLC didn’t respond when I was trying to quit the program after having played a video or audio files.

Now it’s ok all the time!

My configuration:
Macbook Unibody
Mac OS X 10.5.7
2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
4 Go Ram DDR3