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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT color=#000000 face="Times New Roman">I am using VLC media player 1.0.1 Goldeneye<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>in a Windows XP/SP3 environment. VLC crashes a lot. When I used an earlier version of VLC, the window would disappear completely. Since I have upgraded to 1.0.1, it merely shrinks to the control window without the video.</FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT color=#000000 face="Times New Roman">When I reopen VLC and try to move the slider to the approximate place of the freeze, the VLC freezes while I am moving the slider. Once VLC freezes, the only way to get it to run normally is to reboot Windows.</FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT color=#000000 face="Times New Roman">The files on my DVD are .IFO and .VOB files.</FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT color=#000000 face="Times New Roman">When I am viewing the video, the places where the VLC crashes are unpredictable.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>However, I have noticed the DVD will play longer if I have fewer applications running. Recently I added another 1 GB of memory hoping to solve the problem. It has made no difference.</FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT color=#000000 face="Times New Roman">Most recently, I have discovered an interplay between VLC and Microsoft Word when running only these applications. If I run VLC without Word, it seems to run fine. When I open Word to take notes on the lecture, soon VLC freezes. It does not seem to matter which order I open VLC and Word. When I am adding notes to my Word document, VLC soon crashes. I suspect an issue with the way memory is allocated by the two programs.</FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT color=#000000 face="Times New Roman">Please do not tell me to simply stop using the two programs together. I need to be able to take notes in Word while the video is playing.</FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT color=#000000 face="Times New Roman">Is there something else I can to that might help solve the problem?</FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT color=#000000 face="Times New Roman">Thank you,</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT color=#000000 face="Times New Roman">BobK</FONT></P></DIV><!-- cg2.c203.mail.sp2.yahoo.com compressed/chunked Sat Nov 28 08:27:09 PST 2009 --></div></font></td></tr><tr><td height="10"> </td></tr></tbody></table></td><td width="10"> </td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div></body></html>