Hi Ben
Sorry, should have also said that I deleted the contents of the existing vlc directory prior to copying the v1.1.9 files into it; ie I did *not* overwrite the existing installation.
You may want to try starting vlc with the option to generate a logfile - something I've not had to do so far myself so I'm not sure how to... I've just run this command:-
[J:\PROGRAMS\MULTIMEDIA\VLC\USR\LOCAL\BIN]vlc -H > vlchelp.txt
Searching through the vlchelp.txt file I see a few options for generating a logfile - you may want to have a look at those yourself although I think you only really need to use this command:-
[J:\PROGRAMS\MULTIMEDIA\VLC\USR\LOCAL\BIN]vlc --logfile=vlclog.txt
I have had a quick hunt around to see if I can find some possible answers to "vlc does not start" and the best seems to be on this page
http://www.videolan.org/support/faq.html?en/index.html#id2470084"VLC has a strange behavior...
The first thing to do is to reset the VLC preferences in the preferences dialog of the application and restart VLC. If VLC doesn't even start anymore, delete VLC's configuration file (see the previous question to know about its location). Then restart VLC. If it does not get any better, read the following questions! "
It also has a section "Where does VLC store its config file?" - but omits the information for OS/2 based systems...
The file is called vlcrc
Mine is in %HOME%\vlc where %HOME% is the value of the SET HOME line in the config.sys file.
Hope the above is of help - If not you may want to email the porter, KO Myung-Hun, whose email address is in the readme.eng file.
Pete