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"Set Video mode to OpenGL" in Start Menu

Postby Kruskal » 24 Jun 2010 07:26

Normally in Windows XP, when I double-click on a file, the application opened appears for a while in the Start Menu. But with VLC, what appears is "Set Video mode to OpenGL", which, when selected, flashes a window up but, otherwise, does nothing.

What I would expect to happen is an icon "VLC", which, when selected, would bring up the VLC window ready to open a video file.

What's going on here?

Thanks -- Vincent

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Re: "Set Video mode to OpenGL" in Start Menu

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 24 Jun 2010 18:07

Use VLC 1.1.0
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Re: "Set Video mode to OpenGL" in Start Menu

Postby VLC_help » 24 Jun 2010 20:17

And if it still happen, remove %appdata%\vlc folder.

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Re: "Set Video mode to OpenGL" in Start Menu

Postby Kruskal » 25 Jun 2010 21:04

And if it still happen, remove %appdata%\vlc folder.
I was already running 1.1.0. I renamed that VLC folder "VLC HIDE". That worked just as you said.

But all my Preferences are reset. You know which files I can copy over to get them back?

Thanks -- Vincent

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Re: "Set Video mode to OpenGL" in Start Menu

Postby VLC_help » 26 Jun 2010 12:54

They are gone. Settings are saved to %appdata%\vlc\vlcrc file which sometime can become corrupted and cause issues like that.


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