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Yep, it's been fixed in 11.7.7 - hooray!

Thanks for this. The situation is even more complex. I experimented a bit with renaming the MP4 file(s) and noticed that even if its name is just a single letter or number, it will not play when double-clicked if the folder name is containing not-so-special characters that are actually directly conn...

Update: I installed macOS 11.7.6 today. No difference, I still have to manually drag an MP4 file into VLC.

Same problem here, macOS 11.7.5.

Highlighting the filename and pressing Enter twice does not fix it.

The filename does not contain any special characters - only characters that are supported by my current keyboard language setting in macOS, plus a _ or two.