Branden, Nevermind. I just heard back from Samuel Hocevar and he is aware of the problem and will fix it in the next build. I got thrown for a loop because there was a crashing bug not fixed in vlc until 0.2.92-7 (which isn't in sid ppc yet) and local builds were failing (because of xlibs-pics being installed). These two unrelated problems confused the situation for me. Jack