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Hi!

Ok so searching around before posting, I've found several people with the MRL error problem.
I've never had any problems with VLC.

Until I upgraded to Windows 8.1. I was running 8 fine...now it won't open videos that are on another computer in the network.
Other players like the default windows media player, can play them fine, so I'm sure it's not a firewall or corrupted videos.
It happens on both 32 and 64 bit versions of VLC.

I was getting the MLR error at first. Now I went into Properties for VLC and set it to run as administrator, and now I get something different:

File reading failed:
VLC could not open the file "Z:\xxxx.mov" (Bad file descriptor).
Your input can't be opened:
VLC is unable to open the MRL 'file:///Z:/xxxx.mov'. Check the log for details.

It says Z: because I mapped Z to an external hard drive hooked up to another computer in my network. Everything is wired, there's no wireless to deal with.
And this was working perfectly before I updated to 8.1.

Any ideas?

Ok here we go:


main debug: processing request item: IMG_1427.MOV, node: Playlist, skip: 0
main debug: resyncing on IMG_1427.MOV
main debug: IMG_1427.MOV is at 0
main debug: starting playback of the new playlist item
main debug: resyncing on IMG_1427.MOV
main debug: IMG_1427.MOV is at 0
main debug: creating new input thread
main debug: Creating an input for 'IMG_1427.MOV'
main debug: using timeshift granularity of 50 MiB, in path 'C:\Users\Rod\AppData\Local\Temp'
main debug: `file:///Z:/IMG_1427.MOV' gives access `file' demux `' path `/Z:/IMG_1427.MOV'
main debug: creating demux: access='file' demux='' location='/Z:/IMG_1427.MOV' file='Z:\IMG_1427.MOV'
main debug: looking for access_demux module matching "file": 12 candidates
main debug: no access_demux modules matched
main debug: creating access 'file' location='/Z:/IMG_1427.MOV', path='Z:\IMG_1427.MOV'
main debug: looking for access module matching "file": 20 candidates
filesystem debug: opening file `Z:\IMG_1427.MOV'
filesystem error: cannot open file Z:\IMG_1427.MOV (No such file or directory)
main debug: no access modules matched
main error: open of `file:///Z:/IMG_1427.MOV' failed
main debug: finished input
main debug: dead input
main debug: changing item without a request (current 0/1)
main debug: nothing to play

Oh, and I'm running Windows 8.1 and VLC 2.1.3 Rincewind (???)

No such file or directory

The file is correctly present?

well hello fellow VCL'ers

i have a problem ive been using .m3u playlist to play movies from my secondary drive
#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:0,AJE Video
directory:///D:/My%20Videos/AJE%20Video

i set it up this way so when i add a new video to the folder it will be in the playlist without having to update the .m3u file with the new file and up until 4 days ago it was working just as expected, but now it just opens the playlist and wont play or show files in folder and no warnings or messages.

im running windows xp 32bit home edition sp3 with VCL 2.1.0 installed to C Drive (main)

my thoughts are a windows service that may have disabled...

thank you in advance for any intel

I know for a fact the file is there because other players can open and play it. VLC is the only one that can't.

So... am I ever getting VLC back or what?

Is nobody gonna help me?

If you are running VLC as administrator when you mapped the network drive as your regular user it will not work.

Ok so how do I make it work?