I'm seeing this crash under Wily and was redirected here by apport.

I could narrow the cause down to the following config option in my
~/.config/vlc/vlcrc:

avcodec-hw=vaapi_x11

If I comment out this option or set it to a another value, the crash
does not happen and playback works fine.

Here are the steps to reproduce this in a clean guest session:

1. Start VLC
2. Select "Tools -> Preferences -> Show settings: "All" -> Input / Codec -> 
Video Codecs -> ffmpeg -> Hardware decoding -> VA-API video decoder via X11"
3. Close VLC
4. Download the following example video: 
http://medien.wdr.de/m/1444056885/menschenhautnah/wdr_fernsehen_menschen_hautnah_20151008.mp4
5. Try to play it with VLC. It will crash immediately.

This seems to happen only with MP4 videos encoded in a certain way,
because most of the MP4 files I have tested do not crash with this
setting.

Kind regards,
Jan

** Changed in: vlc (Ubuntu)
       Status: Expired => Confirmed

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