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VLC continues to be riddled with crashes in the menus, because of a bug in how they use A List, that is almost 10 years old.

The only way I can make sense of it, is that they must build VLC against a modified Qt distribution, or something they just never update.

I've totally switched to SMPlayer and MPV.

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> VLC continues to be riddled with crashes in the menus, because of a bug in how they use A List, that is almost 10 years old.

Could you be more specific, please? Which menu, in which circumstances?

I'd have to install it again to reproduce it, but I believe there are several menus that don't expect certain things to be empty.

I think one triggers when selecting "Open Capture Device".

There is a closed bug report for this, that was closed I think as unable to reproduce. Years old.

I'll see if I can get back to exactly what it was.

I used VLC for many years without issue, but eventually it became unstable on my system and then wouldn't even launch, even after a fresh re-install. So to share something with others who may be looking for an alternative, MPC-BE with madVR and LAV audio decoder is amazing. I had some issues with MPC-BE out of the box: video tearing and muffled dialog during movies. madVR improves video rendering performance and LAV audio improves audio decoding.

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