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I had no problems with Version 1.0.5, but installed 1.1.5 anyway. It no longer asked me if I wanted it to fix my broken video indexes, but my videos were very choppy. I didn't get any messages. I uninstalled that and went back to 1.0.5 and everything is ok again. The laptop I installed the program on is running Win XP, Service Pack 3.

I did look at other postings that seemed to be the same problem, but I don't understand most of the words in the postings. If there was simple solution in one of those postings, I didn't recognize it. I'm just reporting what seems to be a bug. I think it should just work when I install it. If it doesn't, it's not an improvement over what I had.

Wendy, the only offered solution I've seen it to remove the %appdata%\vlc folder which did NOT work for me. Neither did a clean install, changing to a different Video Output default. Nothing.

But that doesn't mean it won't work for you:
%appdata% - which it seems that the board admins expect any ordinary non-technical user to know - is a profile-specific system file in windows. If you do have the windows defaults in your directory preferences, you won't even see that folder.

In a standard installed home computer, application data lives here:

C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Application Data

IF you cannot see the Application Data folder, you will have to go into your Tools>Folder Options menu in windows to ENABLE view hidden system files. You will see it then.

when you go into Application Data, there will be a vlc folder there. You can safely delete it. VLC player must not be running or you will not be able to delete it.

If you aren't comfortable with the instructions above, an easy way to do this is at a command line.
- Go to your Start Menu
- Click 'Run...'
- type "cmd" in the text field without the quotation marks
- click 'OK'
- Type C: (or the drive letter where windows is installed. I am assuming C: for a default home installation) and hit the Enter key.
- Type "cd %appdata%" without the quotation marks and hit the Enter key. You will now be in your Application Data directory.
- Type "del /s vlc\*" without the quotation marks. When you are prompted "Are you sure?" hit "Y" for yes and then Enter.
- You will see that all files in the VLC folder are deleted.
- type "rd vlc" without quotation marks. Hit Enter.
- Type "exit" hit Enter
You are done.

When you restart VLC player, it will rebuild the folder. When you try to play a video, it will rebuild your fonts cache (this can take a few minutes - about 30 seconds on a moderately modern computer).

Hope it helps you. As I said, it did nothing to help me.

Walter