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I"m on Mojave and won't be upgrading any time soon. This problem, it turns out, is more pronounced and frequent with VLC but it happens with QT too so it may be more a matter of codec or something unrelated to the programs entirely.

MP4's are not immune to this problem. Not all MP4's are the same and I was able to cause this same issue with several on my computer. There is another commonality I will note. When I open Display Prefs and connect to Apple TV and then open a video the video opens and begins to play. Typically a vide...

For no apparent reason this problem is popping up. I go to System Preference / Displays and select Apple TV and my computer screen shows up properly on my TV and I can do almost anything including playing movies on Quicktime but if I begin a movie using VLC the connection often drops and I get a not...

I also carefully set my VLC to the specs listed and resulting playback was horrible and unusable.

interesting that when I went to 2.0.5 (?) and checked for updates it said there were none and I was up to date. fwiw

ok...thanks...too bad. I'll look for something that can do that very simple thing.

I've searched the forums and the net and find various related posts but none that succinctly explain how to prevent VLC from starting up a file (Windows7) after double clicking. I want to be able to double click to open a video file and have it sit there, ready to play...but I don't want it to begin...