A related problem: When I update VLC and choose to keep my settings the installer STILL as default associates VLC with ALL video files, ALL audio files.
But I want to associate it with some video and audio file types and not others. That is one setting I do on each and every VLC install. Why does not the installer recognize those previous settings and use THEM as default? It is after all very easy to associate ALL or NO audio/video file types with VLC. It just takes one click each. But to associate with a certain number of file types takes a lot of time to do manually.
In general, the first screen of the installer could have a big checkbox with the text "use all settings from previous VLC install". After checking that box the user would just have to click install and be done with it. Even better, if it is an update install (which the installer could know because it has already gone through the step of uninstalling the previous VLC version) then that box should be checked by default.
Alternatively, the installer would at least need to be changed to correctly inform the user that some user settings can be saved but that others (their current VLC file association settings) are just impossible for the installer to keep.
This problem is still there. Has there been any news regarding a fix for it? For each new release of VLC there must be many more users who update than who install VLC for the first time. Then it would make a lot of sense to have VLC by default reuse all and only the VLC file associations the user already has. Those wanting to reset or change association to all possible audio/video should actively have to click for that I think.