So I tried playing a movie in VLC a minute ago and got this.?? I haven't had this problem before either so I'm wondering if I derped something up with my comp altogether.

It crashed and closed after that. I popped in a different disk and it seemed to work better, and the first disk seems to work fine on my PS3. So not sure if it means anything at all, but though I'd mention.
HalOfBorg wrote:Have you tried uninstalling/reinstalling your players/codec pack?
I've uninstalled and reinstalled MPC several times, different versions and all, but still get the same result. I've also tried this
Fix it program that's supposed to fix WMP and it brings WMP back to working order until I restart my computer - then it goes back to the way it was before. As for codecs, I haven't looked into those yet.