"Play with VLC media player" with 2.1.0 behaving differently

[rseiler]

This is how I remember the feature working before 2.1.0 if you chose the context menu option during install:

Right-click a media file and see "Play with VLC media player" near or at the top of the menu. This was even if another media player was the default player for that file type.

As of the latest version, however, the only time it appears is if the given file type is set to VLC.

(And on directories, but I don't really care about those.)

To prove that it's not just my Win81 x64, which has seen many VLCs, I tried installing it on a Win8 x64 that's never seen VLC before, and I see the same behavior.

Is this a deliberate change? If so, the feature is most valuable when VLC is *not* the default for a given file type, since if it was, you wouldn't be right-clicking the file in the first place--you'd just left click it.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

It is not a deliberate change.

[rseiler]

I was reminded of this today when updating my VLC version.

Is anyone aware of a workaround (probably a very directed Registry incursion)? I really would like to get that menu to appear for some common video extensions that don't happen to be associated with VLC.