Comments on: Fixing VLC player crashes on Mac OS X

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

By: falloffboy

falloffboy — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 21:32:30 +0000

Sweet you are my hero! After vlc started screwing up i got the divx thing and it didn’t play audio but now i found this. u r the best thank you.

By: Gerasimos

Gerasimos — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:52:18 +0000

Great piece of advice mate!

Should have checked earlier about this issue. In my configuration, it happened each time I loaded the first movie of a sequence of movies. I then was force quitting VLC and in the next attempt everything worked fine!

Thank you!

By: ChiLDisH

ChiLDisH — Tue, 26 May 2009 05:05:30 +0000

thats gold!!! thanks

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 09 May 2009 14:29:56 +0000

Thank you so much, worked perfectly!!

By: Luke

Luke — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 22:54:49 +0000

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!

By: James

James — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 09:04:25 +0000

Hi I take what I said an hour ago back. Althou I still didn’t find the last file to delete I do think it is working fine now. Thank you

By: James

James — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 07:51:13 +0000

It seemed to work for a few mins after I deleted the first file, but soon it didn’t. As the person above I could not find the 2nd file. But the problem is that everytime I open VLC Player it creates a new org.videolan.vlc.plist in the Preferences folder, so I doubt it is fixing anything. I am on a new Leopard bought this week.