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Updating was the worst thing i ever did

Postby Leinad177 » 29 Jul 2010 02:45

I downloaded vlc a few months ago and vlc was working fine...then i decided to update vlc

vlc now stops responding after every movie that i play and when i try to change movies
(by movies i mean .avi files, not dvds)

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Re: Updating was the worst thing i ever did

Postby jersey » 29 Jul 2010 03:46

I'm having exactly the same problems as Leinad above. And every time I click to open VLC, before it even opens, I get a message saying that VLC has crashed and do I want to notify the developer. Drats. Where do I get the older version?

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Re: Updating was the worst thing i ever did

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 29 Jul 2010 17:19

Delete %appdata%/vlc folder
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Re: Updating was the worst thing i ever did

Postby VLC_help » 29 Jul 2010 18:01

Where do I get the older version?
http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/

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Re: Updating was the worst thing i ever did

Postby jersey » 29 Jul 2010 22:54

Before hearing your advice I found and installed Version 1.0.5. It works fine. And before I reinstall the newest version I'll wait until it works without me having to delete folders to get it to run properly.

Thanks for your prompt reply.

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Re: Updating was the worst thing i ever did

Postby Leinad177 » 30 Jul 2010 02:18

Delete %appdata%/vlc folder
i can't seem to find that

can you tell me where to look?

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Re: Updating was the worst thing i ever did

Postby jersey » 30 Jul 2010 03:03

Hi Leinad, I don't understand all this tar bz stuff so I downloaded vlc 1.0.5 as a torrent

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Use the official download link posted three posts above.

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Re: Updating was the worst thing i ever did

Postby Ludrax » 30 Jul 2010 03:05

enter in Windows Explorer address bar
I don't understand all this tar bz stuff
[vlc-devel] Can't compile 1.0.5
I will try that because viewtopic.php?f=2&t=79597#p264945
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Re: Updating was the worst thing i ever did

Postby Steupz » 30 Jul 2010 03:14

Sometimes I think the replies here are too rude for a damn good, free software.


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