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Hi, I used to be able to just double click on a movie and VLC would start it playing automatically. I've now uninstalled the previous version and installed 0.8.2 and I've seem to have lost that feature. Clicking on movies now open VLC but the movie doesn't start right away i.e. I have to press play manually.

I couldn't find anything that looked useful in the player options menus. What can I do to fix this ? Thanks.

to help us solve this issue, could you:

1) turn on verbose level 2 in the preferences (save them)
2) open the messages window
3) quit the player
4) double-click on the movie
5) post the content of the message window to the forum

I have same issue, I set VLC to start playing two streams on windows startup, but I have to click play, not good.

Hi, thanks for replying. Damn, I was thinking it would be a simple menu setting thing just out of my newbie-ness

Here:

main debug: CPU has capabilities 486 586 MMX MMXEXT FPU
main debug: looking for memcpy module: 3 candidates
main debug: using memcpy module "memcpymmxext"
main debug: waiting for thread completion
main debug: thread 3332 (playlist) created at priority 0 (src/playlist/playlist.c:152)
main debug: waiting for thread completion
main debug: thread 3348 (preparser) created at priority 0 (src/playlist/playlist.c:174)
main debug: looking for interface module: 1 candidate
main debug: using interface module "hotkeys"
main debug: interface initialized
main debug: thread 3372 (interface) created at priority 0 (src/interface/interface.c:211)
main debug: adding playlist item `D:\xpto.mpg' ( D:\xpto.mpg )
main debug: looking for interface module: 3 candidates
main debug: using interface module "wxwindows"
main debug: interface initialized
main debug: thread 3392 (manager) created at priority 0 (src/interface/interface.c:196)
wxwindows debug: Using last windows config '(-1,0,0,1280,1024)(0,351,272,338,94)(2,159,377,418,580)'
wxwindows debug: id=0 p=(351,272) s=(338,94)
wxwindows debug: id=2 p=(159,377) s=(418,580)
main debug: nothing requested, starting
main debug: repeating item

Thanks again.

Heh, it's driving me crazy... I'll just revert to 0.8.1 for the time being. Whatever it is, hopefully it'll be fixed in 0.8.3

Hi.....

I have just tried 0.8.4 and the problem still seems to be there. In my case I am trying to run VLC in W2K from command line with a udp://@A.B.C.D:1234 MRL supplied as a parameter.

In older versions (v= 0.8.1 I think) when I did this the MRL item automatically opened and started playing.....now I have to click on the play button to get it to work.

I don't suppose there is a workaround?

TIA

Chris.