VLC 1.1.5 Crash on file association

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VLC 1.1.5 Crash on file association

Postby ukbirdflu » 10 Dec 2010 20:01

Up to 1.1.4 I have no trouble with VLC player. Upgraded to 1.1.5 today, and the first thing I noticed was nearly all my media files turned into VLC player icon, it has grabbed all kinds to media files, I then use file association to edit the preference, no matter what I unclick, when I hit "apply", the whole VLC player would disappear. Relaunch of the player it says VLC just crashed and want to report to development team. What ever I unclicked in the file association were still ticked.

I reinstalled 1.1.4 and then do the upgrade again, carefully unclicked all file association during installation and this time it worked. I had to set up manually file association using Window Explorer, and touching file association in VLC still cause it to crash.

May be I should keep to 1.1.4.

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Re: VLC 1.1.5 Crash on file association

Postby VLC_help » 11 Dec 2010 22:24

The file association dialog inside VLC preferences is broken. So I suggest that you don't use it.

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Re: VLC 1.1.5 Crash on file association

Postby sabrehawk » 29 Nov 2011 22:52

This bug STILL stands with the latest version or has returned. It is quite annoying.

instant app crash when trying to set the file associations within preferences (win 7 x64, admin account)

what is the problem in fixing such a long standing obvious fatal bug (fatal cause it crashes the program 100% repeatable) Oo :shock:

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Re: VLC 1.1.5 Crash on file association

Postby VLC_help » 30 Nov 2011 16:07

what is the problem in fixing such a long standing obvious fatal bug (fatal cause it crashes the program 100% repeatable) Oo
VLC is an open source project. So developers mostly do features they want to do. Since file association crash doesn't cause any security issues, I will guess it won't be fixed in anytime soon (specially since Windows Vista and 7 have new filetype association thingy build-in).

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Re: VLC 1.1.5 Crash on file association

Postby rarkenin » 28 Dec 2011 16:51

I am also having file assoc. bug on XP and cannot send crash reports as the crash-dump file is 0 bytes.
Why not just quickly disable it for now, and fix it when there is nothing more important to do?


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