Holy crap! When I use export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib64/libgobject-2.0.so vlc works just fine! I found this workaround there: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1400845#p1400845 Why does it work when using LD_PRELOAD? Is this a problem with a lib not being found correctly? Thanks Malte