Error message

[jcastun]

This is the error message I get when trying to open several different files. The files play sometimes.

File reading failed:
VLC could not open the file "C:\Documents".
Your input can't be opened:
VLC is unable to open the MRL 'C:\Documents'. Check the log for details.
File reading failed:
VLC could not open the file "and".
Your input can't be opened:
VLC is unable to open the MRL 'and'. Check the log for details.
File reading failed:
VLC could not open the file "Settings\carter\Desktop\chipmonks".
Your input can't be opened:
VLC is unable to open the MRL 'Settings\carter\Desktop\chipmonks'. Check the log for details.
File reading failed:
VLC could not open the file "trailer.mov".
Your input can't be opened:
VLC is unable to open the MRL 'trailer.mov'. Check the log for details.

[paaland]

In the association from file extention to VLC there is missing double quotes around the argument. Somewhere it says to open vlc.exe %1 when you click an avi file. But since the path contains a space this is converted to two arguments. It should state vlc.exe "%1" instead. I cannot remember where you set these options in Windows though.

[jcastun]

Yeah I have not idea how to find that.

[paaland]

Uninstalling and reinstalling VLC might fix the problem. Else you can do some checks. First open a command windows (cmd.exe) as administrator if you are on Vista / Win7 with UAC enabled.

Then type assoc followed by a space and the file extenstion you have problems with, for example .mp4. [enter] is where I press enter, you do not need to type it.

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C:\>assoc .mp4 [enter] .mp4=QuickTime.mp4

So for the file extenstion .mp4 an association called QuickTime.mp4 exists. Now I can check which program is associated with that:

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C:\>ftype QuickTime.mp4 [enter] QuickTime.mp4=C:\Program Files\VideoLan\vlc\vlc.exe "%1"

If you do the same with what ever file extensions you have problems with I expect the double quotes to be missing around the "%1". You will need to change that using ftype like this:

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C:\>ftype QuickTime.mp4="C:\Program Files\VideoLan\vlc\vlc.exe" "%1"