Existing users, 
0.8.6 crashes upon opening ANY kind of file that I tried (DIVX, WMV, MOV, MPG, AVI, etc). Despite this current issue, these developers have done a great job with all previous versions:) Hope to see a fix for this soon!
-Freelancelot
VLC media player
for DivX, VCD, DVD, MPEG, AVI, FLV, WAV, WMV, OGG
Version: 0.9.8a
Crashes upon opening ANY kind of movie file
Feedback Type: Troubleshooting Report
Contributed by: freelancelot1 Monday, December 11 2006 @ 11:35 AM PST
Product Platform: MacOSX
Used Product For: Less than a month
Recommend Product: YES
System Info:Mac OS X 10.4.8, PowerMac G5, single 1.8Ghz, 1.25G ram
Comments
Crashes upon opening ANY kind of movie file - Oodles
I have had no trouble with this update. I did use the script to delete old preferences.Monday, December 11 2006 @ 09:48 PM PST
Crashes upon opening ANY kind of movie file - jedik
I was having problems with vlc also, it would quit if I tried to play videos. I found the solution in their forum (http://forum.videolan.org/):Delete the folder ~/Library/Prefences/VLC
I hope this can help someone else. =)
Tuesday, December 12 2006 @ 08:26 PM PST
Crashes upon opening ANY kind of movie file - jedik
Oooops, sorry for my typo. Obviously, the correct path of the folder that should be deleted is:~/Library/Preferences/VLC
Tuesday, December 12 2006 @ 08:28 PM PST
Crashes upon opening ANY kind of movie file - freelancelot1
Ok, trashing the entire folder "~Library/Preferences/VLC" seems to have worked. It opens movies ok now. Thanks for the tip! :)-Freelancelot
Saturday, December 23 2006 @ 02:32 PM PST
Crashes upon opening ANY kind of movie file - natenate
You're using the Intel build, right? It was missing a library when first posted to VideoLAN's mirrors. The package has been fixed, re-download it. Don't forget to trash your Preferences. Always post to VT in triplicate...Reply to This
Monday, December 11 2006 @ 11:46 AM PST