Open ogg file with VLC tries to open text files

[Paddy Landau]

I am hitting a bizarre error, and I'd like some help please. I have searched the wiki and the forum and I don't see any other thread on this.

From Nautilus (or from my Desktop), if I open an ogg file with VLC, it tries to open certain other text files.

Specifically, I find that if there is another text file in the same directory containing the ogg file's name, VLC tries to open it.

An example to explain:

• In a directory, I have a file aq.ogg.
• I double-click (or use right-click) to open the file with VLC.
• VLC correctly opens aq.ogg, but...
• VLC also tries to open the files asyo uaqs req.txt, youaqeep.txt and youaqop.txt. Notice that these files all contain aq in their names, which is the name of the ogg file.
• For each text file, VLC gives the error message, "VLC can't recognize the input's format."

VLC ignores any files that don't have the extension .txt, and any files that don't have the ogg file name within it. (I've experimented with different names and they all do the same thing.)

I have reset the preferences as per the instructions.

Is this a bug that I should report?

I use Ubuntu Lucid 10.04 (64-bit), so I asked this question on the Ubuntu forum.

[Paddy Landau]

We have a workaround.

Tools > Preferences > All > Video > Subtitles/OSD > Autodetect subtitle files (turn this off)

So, it's something to do with trying to find subtitles.

[Paddy Landau]

I've raised a ticket for this, as someone else has found the same problem.
https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/4132