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I captured an online session (a two hour chess lesson) in .avi format. In the directory is shows the video length is 1:58:52 and the size is 1.22 Gb. So I used the convert/save option under Media to convert the file to .mp4 format, which is almost 90% smaller. The conversion ran to completion, but w...

I don't know how the loop button got clicked, since I never use that feature, but that is the answer. As usual, the answer is: User Error! Problem solved.
Now my question is how do I mark this solved?

Good point! I'll check. This may be embarrassing!

when I try to convert a 2-hour .avi file to .mp4, VLAN processes to the end of the file and then gives me the message "The output file already exists. If recording continues the file will be overwritten and it's contents will be lost." I can then click on "Overwrite" or "Kee...

SOLVED! I am running Air Video Server HD, a really nice program that lets me stream videos from my computer to my tablet and phone. When I terminated that program, the VLC update worked perfectly. I then rebooted and restarted Air Video Server and everything works fine. I goes the video server refer...

FWIW I also attempted to run the 2.2.4 install after right-clicking and selecting "Run as administrator" but this failed in exactly the same way

I rebooted and then downloaded and tried to install the the 64-bit version 2.2.4. I got exactly the same error message, so it's not a case of VLC already running. I'm really at a loss. I even went so far as to uninstall my current 64-bit VLC and install 2.2.4 as an initial install, but that failed t...

When I used the VLC player today, I got a message that a new update (2,2,4) was available. So I downloaded the update and attempted to install it only to be stopped by the message "Error opening file for writing" the filename was "C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\libvlccore.dll" I h...