In fact this is only because of renderer used and a bug is in VLC itself, not in SVP.
If you run VLC via SVP's menu, ver.246 sets "output" to Direct3D9, while ver. 263 sets it to "OpenGL video output for Windows".
d3d9 doesn't crash with interlaced video and Bob deinterlace, opengl do crash.
You can set main.setup.vlc.vout to "direct3d9" if you want this.