Yep, broken here too, exactly the same way - Win7 x64, previously working ( in 1.0.5 ) m3u's now refuse to work with 1.1.0, with reports such as :
File reading failed:
VLC could not open the file "\\E:\Music\Led Zeppelin\Coda\01 We're Gonna Groove.flac".
Your input can't be opened:
VLC is unable to open the MRL 'file://E:\Music\Led Zeppelin\Coda\01%20We%27re%20Gonna%20Groove.flac'. Check the log for details.
The m3u contents ( generated by EAC ) in this case look like :
#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:158,Led Zeppelin - We're Gonna Groove
01 We're Gonna Groove.flac
Just double clicking on the .flac file itself plays just fine. But life is too short to double click on every file I want to listen to
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Unfortunately I don't believe I can attach files here, or I'd attach the whole sysinternals Procmon log, but essentially it boils down to :
20:54:38.2225516 vlc.exe 4948 CreateFile C:\Windows\CSC\v2.0.6\namespace\E NAME NOT FOUND Desired Access: Read Attributes, Synchronize, Disposition: Open, Options: Synchronous IO Non-Alert, Non-Directory File, Complete If Oplocked, Attributes: n/a, ShareMode: Read, Write, Delete, AllocationSize: n/a 2860
20:54:38.2225892 vlc.exe 4948 QueryOpen \\E:\Music\Led Zeppelin\Physical Graffiti Disc 1\01 Custard Pie.flac FAST IO DISALLOWED 2861
20:54:38.2225902 vlc.exe 4948 CreateFile \\E:\Music\Led Zeppelin\Physical Graffiti Disc 1\ BAD NETWORK PATH Desired Access: Read Data/List Directory, Synchronize, Disposition: Open, Options: Directory, Synchronous IO Non-Alert, Attributes: n/a, ShareMode: Read, Write, Delete, AllocationSize: n/a 2862
There's nothing particularly remarkable here - as far as Windows is concerned, \\E:\Music\Led Zeppelin\Physical Graffiti Disc 1\ is *not* a valid network path.
When we look at the same log with 1.0.5 ( ignoring the RegOpenKey's which are a bit strange but not actually a problem... ), unremarkably again, we see that the '\\E:' is not present :
21:34:45.5628487 vlc.exe 1328 QueryOpen E:\Music\Led Zeppelin\Physical Graffiti Disc 1\01 Custard Pie.flac SUCCESS CreationTime: 24/12/2009 21:59:03, LastAccessTime: 28/12/2009 17:08:44, LastWriteTime: 24/12/2009 21:59:03, ChangeTime: 29/12/2009 02:05:18, AllocationSize: 28,909,568, EndOfFile: 28,908,616, FileAttributes: ANCI 7434
21:34:45.5628601 vlc.exe 1328 RegOpenKey HKCU\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Control Panel\Desktop NAME NOT FOUND Desired Access: Read 7435
21:34:45.5629601 vlc.exe 1328 RegOpenKey HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Control Panel\Desktop NAME NOT FOUND Desired Access: Read 7436
21:34:45.5629803 vlc.exe 1328 RegOpenKey HKCU\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Control Panel\Desktop NAME NOT FOUND Desired Access: Read 7437
21:34:45.5630130 vlc.exe 1328 CreateFile E:\Music\Led Zeppelin\Physical Graffiti Disc 1\01 Custard Pie.flac SUCCESS Desired Access: Generic Read, Disposition: Open, Options: Synchronous IO Non-Alert, Non-Directory File, Attributes: N, ShareMode: Read, Write, AllocationSize: n/a, OpenResult: Opened 7438
I'm suspicious of the attempt to use Windows\CSC, it suggests that perhaps everything is simply being treated as a network path by default.