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Please could somebody at Videolan bother to comment on the "Java not found" error message.
The common Problem for many users is that they have Java installed but VLC would not find it.
As far as I know nobody at Videolan cares to clarify anything. All questions about this topic stay unanswered and/or unresolved.

Give us a guideline how to properly set it up and how to troubleshoot it.
It is not working for so many users that it should be an issue.

Thank you, appreciate it.
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Are you playing a bluray disk?

yes but only from mounted iso

Are you playing a bluray disk?

wasn't that clear from the beginning?
Does it matter?
Could you please elaborate on why the info on this topic seems to be top secret?

Thank you so much.

Are you playing a bluray disk?

wasn't that clear from the beginning?
Does it matter?
Could you please elaborate on why the info on this topic seems to be top secret?

Thank you so much.

32bits vs 64bits would be the obvious issue. Or Java 10 being used instead of Java 8

32bits vs 64bits would be the obvious issue. Or Java 10 being used instead of Java 8

Well you see, here is the thing, no offense, but your answer shows in a way that you don't really care.
Maybe for you 32bits vs 64bits would be the obvious issue, but for many it is not _obvious_
Even for me, who knows that it is important, it is not, because I tried all versions and combinations of Java8 and VLC and still don't get the results. On one computer yes, on the other no.
And many people just don't know the difference because nobody tells them.
Also often it is not that easy to determine whether you have installed the 32 or the 64 bit Version.
Where is it in VLC for example? If I open the 'about' dialog it says nothing about 32 or 64 bit. You have a good explanation for that?

Also 32 or 64 of what? Windows/Linux? VLC? Java? All of it or parts?
And what are the non ovious issues?
Can't you give us a guide how to properly set up a system so that Java support works for VLC? On Windows, Linux and Mac? Because it is all different.
You have a wiki, put it in there.

No one talks about environment variables for example.
Are they necessarily must be set or not?
What if Java updates itself, do I have to update and check the env varables as well? I would think so, right?

All this guys, please, let's go.
With all the success you have, it still seems to be a bit nerdy, your software.

Thank you so much.

Can't you give us a guide how to properly set up a system so that Java support works for VLC? On Windows, Linux and Mac? Because it is all different.
You have a wiki, put it in there.

VLC is open source and completely free. To have this kind of guide you need to have people actually wanting to spend a lot of time making a guide to have one, and these people likely have to understand the internal of VLC.
But VideoLAN members are setting up initiatives so as to have some developers doing that.

About the issue, would better logs about why VLC doesn't find the issue be ok for you as a first step?

I would appreciate everything that helps making things easier and better as they are now. Even if this topic is going to help anyone in the end would be a step.
Finally and ideally it would only have to be moved over to the wiki.
So, yes.