Comment 2 for bug 304887

I agree. The vlc package provided is quite useless for me. I use vlc with the telnet interface with mvpmc to transcode divx on the fly to mpeg to stream to my Hauppage MediaMVP set-top box. I get a similar error.

[00000404] telnet interface: using the VLM interface plugin...
[00000404] telnet interface: telnet interface started on interface 4212
[00000416] [Media: mvpmc] main access out: creating httpd
[00000497] [Media: mvpmc] avcodec encoder error: cannot open encoder
[00000409] [Media: mvpmc] stream_out_transcode stream out error: cannot find video encoder (module:ffmpeg fourcc:mp2v)
*** glibc detected *** vlc: double free or corruption (out): 0x00007fd3c3ee7cb0 ***
======= Backtrace: =========
/lib/libc.so.6[0x7fd3c3bf3938]
/lib/libc.so.6(cfree+0x76)[0x7fd3c3bf5f86]
/usr/lib/vlc/stream_out/libstream_out_transcode_plugin.so[0x7fd3c0be0e32]
/usr/lib/vlc/stream_out/libstream_out_transcode_plugin.so[0x7fd3c0be0e7c]
/usr/lib/libvlccore.so.0[0x7fd3c3f83f4c]
/usr/lib/libvlccore.so.0(filter_chain_Delete+0x1f)[0x7fd3c3f845af]
/usr/lib/vlc/stream_out/libstream_out_transcode_plugin.so[0x7fd3c0be3ef4]
/usr/lib/vlc/stream_out/libstream_out_transcode_plugin.so[0x7fd3c0be4bf6]
/usr/lib/libvlccore.so.0[0x7fd3c3f86014]
/usr/lib/libvlccore.so.0[0x7fd3c3f27e2c]
/usr/lib/libvlccore.so.0[0x7fd3c3f2fbc0]
/usr/lib/vlc/demux/libavi_plugin.so[0x7fd3ba046bb8]
/usr/lib/libvlccore.so.0[0x7fd3c3f347c1]
/usr/lib/libvlccore.so.0[0x7fd3c3f37e51]
/usr/lib/libvlccore.so.0[0x7fd3c3f71116]
/lib/libpthread.so.0[0x7fd3c39653ea]
/lib/libc.so.6(clone+0x6d)[0x7fd3c3c60c6d]