How do you create a playlist that works in vlc 1.0.0

[vlcisretarded]

i have tried drag and dropping. i have tried opening the blank playlist, clicking the plus sign, add file, add directory, etc, and when the xps playlist thats worked fine with vlc for months is loaded into the playlist, none of the files are there, and the playlist does not play


VLC , you totally ruined your product. i can literally not figure out a way to play more than one file consecutively.. you people suck for making such a simple thing that worked, broken

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

xps IS not a playlist file.

[vlcisretarded]

sorry, XSPF file. thats what VLC itself saved the playlist as. its all done through VLC, and it doesnt work

[erwan10]

If you are on Windows, and read an old xspf playlist, it may not work in vlc1.0.0 (location just changed to fully comply with Microsoft URI format which now looks like file:///D:/path/file.ext).

As for creating new xspf playlists from scratch, it works fine AFAIK.

Erwan10

[jeroensky]

Their are different versions of playlists. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playlist#T ... list_files

If you want a easy to make m3u playlist (i use it on my site,and it works with vlc if their is enough bandwith over the internet line ) :

Open text editor like vim or notepad.
Drop on every line a link to a mediafile(that vlc supports of course).
Save the file as *.m3u (playlist.m3u, so not as *.txt.) (<-prefer utf-8 instead of ansi)
done.

So the playlist file looks like this:

http://www.location.abc/directory_you/picture1.png
http://www.location.abc/directory_can/picture2.jpg
http://www.location.abc/directory_not/audio1.m4a
http://www.location.abc/directory_type/audio2.wav
http://www.location.abc/directory_re/video1.mp4
http://www.location.abc/directory_tard/video2.avi

or instead of http://www.location.abc the file:///local drive location.

Oh vlcisretarted, can you remove your last 2 lines of the first posting, i mean who's retarted here if you can't use a simple texteditor?