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Hi,

A long time ago I installed the VLC service with the following command:
vlc.exe -I ntservice --ntservice-install --ntservice-extraintf=http

Everything worked and VLC ran in the background, so I could use the Webinterface.

I dont know what I did, but the service will not start anymore. I tried so much but dont get it run again. When I want to start the service, I get a Windows-Service timeout. I uninstalled the service and VLC, removed all vlc.exe registry entries, removed all appdata, reinstalled vlc with the service -> same error.
Also this is not the solution: --no-qt-privacy-ask --no-qt-error-dialogs
I tried to install and run it directly as Admin, no chance. I stopped the Firewall, and also the windows firewall and defender is disabled. It worked some time ago, but now I dont get it run again, I also get this timeout. So I dont know what to do now =(
Would be great if someone could help me!

Greets

Hey, its me again.

The only solution that worked for me was reinstalling windows. But now I have the same problem again. Is someone out there with the same problem? I don´t want to reinstall windows again because of the vlc ntservice

Enable the logs and look at the logs.

I deleted the service and created it again with:
vlc.exe -I ntservice --ntservice-install --ntservice-extraintf=http:logger --extraintf=http:logger --verbose=2 --file-logging --logfile=vlc-log.txt vlc://quit
Then the vlc-log.txt was created with the following content:
-- logger module started --
main error: option syslog does not exist
ntservice warning: service successfuly created
dummy: command `quit'
-- logger module stopped --

But when I tried to start the service, the log didnt change and nothing was added.

I just checked the vlc ntservice in the registry and the "ImagePath" value is " "E:\VLC\vlc.exe" -I ntservice --ntservice-extraintf http:logger " the rest is just cut away?!

Is there noone who can help me with this problem?