Segmentation fault, among other problems...

[bezeek]

Well, my trial install of Ubuntu has been a blast so far - beginning with a dead Windows setup last night, as I accidentally overwrote the MBR after my first shot at installing Ubuntu crashed (I forgot to specify the location to install GRUB to the second time around...) but that's a whole different story.

So, I've got Edgy installed and fully updated now, and I come to find that my favorite movie player (VLC, duh!) isn't agreeing with Ubuntu.

When trying to load a DVD, ISO, raw files, or physical DVD disk, the player just crashes without notice. In the error report I see that the cause was a segmentation fault (with nearly no debug info in the call stack - attached the report anyway) and reproducing the error through the terminal generates the following leading up to the seg. fault:

  libdvdnav: Unable to find map file '/home/bezeek/.dvdnav/<DVD TITLE>.map'
  libdvdnav: DVD disk reports itself with Region mask 0x00000000. Regions: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
  Segmentation fault

In other news, many AVI files refuse to play, although VLC does not crash.
Regarding this issue, I see a black viewing window, and the following terminal output:

  [00000298] ffmpeg decoder error: more than 5 seconds of late video -> dropping frame (computer too slow ?)

Please don't tell me that perhaps my computer is too slow - I'm running an Intel 640 (3.2GHz, 2MB L2, supporting EM64T, etc.) with a gig of DDRII RAM, and a 7600GT, so I'm pretty sure slowness is not the issue.

Speaking of which, I am running the AMD64 version of Edgy, in case that's good to know.