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Whenever I pop in a DVD, the autoplay box that says "What do you want Windows to do" followed by numerous audio/video playing software that you can select doesn't ever work when I select VLC. However, if I exit out of that screen and then right click the DVD icon and select "play using VLC..." it does work. How do I make it so that VLC will play using autoplay and not give me an error? I have Windows XP Pro if that matters.

The error:

File reading failed:
VLC could not open the file "dvd:H:\".
Your input can't be opened:
VLC is unable to open the MRL 'dvd:H:\'. Check the log for details.

what version of vlc are you using?

1.0.5

The MRL should be dvd://H:\

So what do I need to do to make it work.

You have to edit the registry value. start -> run -> regedit and then search for dvd: and edit those VLC entries to have dvd://

What is the pathway in regedit to get to that?

Something like HKCR\DVD\shell\PlayWithVLC\command

It looks like it's already there. It says: " "C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe" --started-from-file dvd://%1 "

And it looks same in HKCR\VLC.DVDMovie\shell\Open\command ?

Yes it is the same

Strange. If you open Tools -> Messages... (set Verbosity to 2) with failed autoplay VLC and then press play, what does the messages complain?

main debug: processing request item H node Playlist skip 0
main debug: resyncing on H
main debug: H is at 0
main debug: starting new item
main debug: creating new input thread
main debug: Creating an input for 'H'
main debug: thread started
main debug: using timeshift granularity of 50 MBytes
main debug: using timeshift path 'C:\DOCUME~1\ADMINI~1\LOCALS~1\Temp'
main debug: thread (input) created at priority 1 (../.././src/input/input.c:230)
main debug: `H:"' gives access `' demux `' path `H:"'
main debug: creating demux: access='' demux='' path='H:"'
main debug: looking for access_demux module: 3 candidates
qt4 debug: IM: Setting an input
qt4 debug: Updating the geometry
qt4 debug: Updating the geometry
dvdnav warning: cannot open dvdnav
main debug: TIMER module_need() : 28.777 ms - Total 28.777 ms / 1 intvls (Avg 28.777 ms)
main debug: creating access '' path='H:"'
main debug: looking for access module: 5 candidates
vcd debug: trying .cue file: H:".cue
vcd debug: could not find .cue file
access_file debug: opening file `H:"'
access_file error: cannot open file H:" (Invalid argument)
cdda debug: trying .cue file: H:".cue
cdda debug: could not find .cue file
cdda warning: could not open H:"
main debug: TIMER module_need() : 1.508 ms - Total 1.508 ms / 1 intvls (Avg 1.508 ms)
main error: open of `H:"' failed: no suitable access module
main debug: thread ended
qt4 debug: IM: Deleting the input
qt4 debug: Updating the geometry
qt4 debug: Updating the geometry
main debug: dead input
main debug: thread times: real 0m0.031250s, kernel 0m0.000000s, user 0m0.000000s
main debug: TIMER input launching for 'H' : 74.418 ms - Total 74.418 ms / 1 intvls (Avg 74.418 ms)
main debug: changing item without a request (current 0/1)
main debug: nothing to play

In that case it is also missing dvd://
If it would be correct, it should look like so for some reason there are parameter parts missing.

So how do I fix this? It still works if I right click and do "play with vlc..." but I shouldn't have to exit out of the autorun to do that.

Does the invokeverb trick work?
viewtopic.php?f=14&t=73401&p=242031&hil ... rb#p242031

I changed play to open and it still does not work right.

So is this unsolvable or what?

I don't know what is causing the issue, there might be a some solution for it.

i have the same problem with the same version.

I'll probably fix my problems by downloading an older version.

I gave version 0.8.6i a try and that solved the problem.

So what is the most stable and reliable version before 1.05?

The solution to your problem is here

http://www.oldapps.com/VLC_Player.php

download version 1.0.3

Everything works fine and so does opening through autoplay.

The solution to your problem is here

http://www.oldapps.com/VLC_Player.php

download version 1.0.3

Everything works fine and so does opening through autoplay.

No, no, no, no and NO.
Advertising for old and broken versions of VLC is not ok.
Especially from an external website that noone can trust

Just wanted to tell viper that a slightly older version of vlc made that problem go away for me.

Go ahead and delete my account mr moderator. Sorry for revealing to everyone that the vlc team
caused a problem by trying to fix another. They will probably have all of this worked out in version 1.1 which was supposed
to be out already.

I'm really sorry for trying to help someone.

I haven't watched this thread in a while since I pretty much accepted that I had to deal with what I got. I got a message for the new 1.1 and it seems to work now.