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The first time I open a video file by double clicking, VLC opens and the video plays fine. However, if I add any videos to the playlist or try to open another video with VLC still open, all I get is a black screen. If I close the first instance of VLC and try to open another video by double clicking, VLC does not open and nothing happens. If I manually open VLC and then double click a video file, nothing happens. I have to open VLC, then drag the file I wish to play to the player to get it to play. I have to restart VLC and repeat this each time I wish to watch a new video. It's quite annoying. Any thoughts?

Open Tools -> Messages (set Verbosity to 2) what does it complain when file is changed?

I can tel you it doesn't complain anything...the title bar pops up if you're in full screen mode and VLC locks and has to be killed. This is the same behavior it exhibits at the end of a video when trying to step to the next, or double-clicking another video. Or, in fact, if you just wait, as it crashes right after videos end if you have it in full screen mode.

I did discover tonight that 1.1.2 pulls this behavior in windowed mode as well, if you decide midstream to switch videos -- in this case from an mkv file to an avi file. First video cleared, then BANG, title bar up and pale, and VLC locked up and needing once again to be killed.

I'd hoped 1.1.2 fixed this issue, but apparently not -- so it's back to 1.05 AGAIN.

VLC isn't the on ly media player out there having issues like this, mind you. WinAmp since 5.8 has been generating a firestorm of complaints about playing a handful of tracks and crashing (and it doesn't crash to desktop, either -- it crashes and locks, and is doing something funky with memory.)