I was suffering the same issues. Starting VLC as Remi suggested above solved my issue, (disabling embedding also stopped crashing, but was not ideal)
-- [intrepid] vlc crashes right after start with every video https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/281743 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
