If you try to run VLC under root user on Linux, you will be blocked with message : "VLC is not supposed to be run as root. Sorry. If you need to use real-time priorities and/or privileged TCP ports you can use vlc-wrapper (make sure it is Set-UID root and cannot be run by non-trusted users first).". While it is a good security practice to not run non-system executables under root privileges, but at times you might need the exception. Here's a solution to allow VLC and cvlc (command-line version of vlc) run under the root user-account.

The first bugfix release version of the 0.9 VLC Media player series is out now for public downloading, unfortunately and surprisingly no Windows version is yet released for the latest build 0.9.3 citing lack of Windows developers contribution to the project, according to the official website with such a situation new versions of VLC media player for Windows might become less frequent and severely out of sync with the Linux and Mac OS X versions.

The old Windows version 0.9.2 is quite buggy on certain configurations and may display libvlc.dll errors as shown below before playing any media file.