EyeTV interface causes a crash when accessing libvlc (without main VLC GUI)

I am running Mac OS X 10.6 (64-bit). I have VLC 1.1.9.

I have built a simple app that uses libvlc to display video. Unfortunately, this app crashes due to the EyeTV interface in the VLC Mac GUI (modules/gui/macosx/eyetv.m).

A trivial example is being provided as an attachment. You'll need to edit crash.mm to point it to a video file on your machine (any will do).

The crash occurs because VLCEyeTVController::globalNotificationReceived is called while VLCIntf (ie. [[VLCMain sharedInstance] intf]) is not valid. This value is only used in this function to print some debug but the debugging function (msg_GenericVa) does an assert on the vlc_object_t *p_this and the app crashes. The VLCIntf value is used in other methods in that file but they don't seem to be getting called.

As a fix for me, I removed the debugging statement though I'm kind of surprised the class is instantiated at all since there's no VLC GUI running.