Comment 76 for bug 668671
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(Get the code!)
(In reply to comment #67)
> > As an alternative, VLC provides an undocumented --no-xlib option. It
> > blacklists all VLC plugins that call XInitThreads() because they are
> > known to depend on Xlib.
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> Well, if the PulseAudio backend is one of those plugins, then that's clearly
> not an acceptable solution. The call to XInitThreads in VLC's PulseAudio plugin
> needs to be removed (it's not necessary with current PulseAudio) and --no-xlib
> must not blacklist the PulseAudio plugin.
This is not a problem these days. It's been removed from VLC 1.1.6 when compiled with PA 0.9.22.
I've been patching this stuff for quite a while now in the Mandriva packages for Pulse+VLC and have helped the relevant maintainers in Fedora and Ubuntu to do the same.