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Context menu missing on AVI files
Posted: 10 Dec 2010 22:00
by ukbirdflu
After installing 1.1.5 I discovered when I right click on avi files, I do not have the usual context menu "open in VLC media player" anymore, I also lost it when I went back to previous version, context menu on other file format such as mp4 and mkv is all right. I tried reinstalling and made sure I clicked the Context menu during installation, still it failed to appear. Is there any way to bring it back?
Re: Context menu missing on AVI files
Posted: 11 Dec 2010 22:30
by VLC_help
You can edit registry manually.
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT -> .avi and there are also shell\PlayWithVLC and shell\AddToPlaylistVLC for those.
Re: Context menu missing on AVI files
Posted: 12 Dec 2010 09:37
by ukbirdflu
I have found out whats wrong, I upgraded "Mediainfo" and for some unknown reason, it has highjacked avi files and also the context menu for avi files. I restored the file association between avi files and windows media player and the vlc context menu came back !!