opening files from terminal/CLI failing with errors

[tragicmagic]

I've followed various guides and info, and nothing I've tried is working to open a video locally, with or without any arguments/options.

I'm on macOS Sierra 10.12.6, running VLC v3.0.11.1. I've also set up a droplet as specified here: https://wiki.videolan.org/VLC_HowTo/Pla ... instances/

Here's the nature of the errors I'm seeing when trying to open a video file from command line. There have been some differences based on changing/resetting VLC preferences. But the main issues that remains consistent are:
- no interface
- failed to load window nib file 'MainWindow'.
- Error: the bundle being updated at NSBundle </applications/vlc.app/contents/macos> (loaded) has no CFBundleIdentifier!

Here's the last output I got after resetting VLC preferences, and setting the default player for the file type (mp4) back to VLC.app (instead of VLC droplet.app):

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VLC media player 3.0.11.1 Vetinari (revision 3.0.11.1-0-g52483f3ca2) [00007fe58504c6e0] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface. 2024-11-12 21:48:02.390 VLC[35490:5483951] -[NSWindowController loadWindow]: failed to load window nib file 'MainWindow'. 2024-11-12 21:48:02.399 VLC[35490:5483951] Sparkle: ===== MacOS ===== 2024-11-12 21:48:02.399 VLC[35490:5483951] Sparkle: Error: the bundle being updated at NSBundle </applications/vlc.app/contents/macos> (loaded) has no CFBundleIdentifier! This will cause preference read/write to not work properly. IOVARendererID property not found /Library/Caches/com.apple.xbs/Sources/AppleGVA/AppleGVA-10.1.17/Sources/Slices/Driver/AVD_loader.cpp: failed to get a service for display 10 /Library/Caches/com.apple.xbs/Sources/AppleGVA/AppleGVA-10.1.17/Sources/Slices/Driver/AVD_loader.cpp: failed to get a service for display 11 2024-11-12 21:48:02.417 VLC[35490:5483951] -[NSWindowController loadWindow]: failed to load window nib file 'MainWindow'. 2024-11-12 21:48:02.417 VLC[35490:5483951] -[NSWindowController loadWindow]: failed to load window nib file 'MainWindow'. 2024-11-12 21:48:02.417 VLC[35490:5483951] -[NSWindowController loadWindow]: failed to load window nib file 'MainWindow'. [00007fe583d8cd70] videotoolbox decoder: Using Video Toolbox to decode 'h264' [00007fe583d8cd70] videotoolbox decoder: vt cvpx chroma: 420v 2024-11-12 21:48:02.450 VLC[35490:5483951] Can't find app with identifier com.apple.Music 2024-11-12 21:48:02.458 VLC[35490:5483951] -[NSWindowController loadWindow]: failed to load window nib file 'MainWindow'. 2024-11-12 21:48:02.458 VLC[35490:5483951] -[NSWindowController loadWindow]: failed to load window nib file 'MainWindow'. 2024-11-12 21:48:02.459 VLC[35490:5483951] -[NSWindowController loadWindow]: failed to load window nib file 'MainWindow'. 2024-11-12 21:48:02.465 VLC[35490:5483951] -[NSWindowController loadWindow]: failed to load window nib file 'MainWindow'. 2024-11-12 21:48:02.472 VLC[35490:5483951] Can't find app with identifier com.apple.Music 2024-11-12 21:48:02.475 VLC[35490:5483951] -[NSWindowController loadWindow]: failed to load window nib file 'MainWindow'. 2024-11-12 21:48:02.475 VLC[35490:5483951] -[NSWindowController loadWindow]: failed to load window nib file 'MainWindow'. 2024-11-12 21:48:02.477 VLC[35490:5483951] -[NSWindowController loadWindow]: failed to load window nib file 'MainWindow'. 2024-11-12 21:48:02.477 VLC[35490:5483951] -[NSWindowController loadWindow]: failed to load window nib file 'MainWindow'. 2024-11-12 21:48:02.477 VLC[35490:5483951] -[NSWindowController loadWindow]: failed to load window nib file 'MainWindow'. 2024-11-12 21:48:02.477 VLC[35490:5483951] -[NSWindowController loadWindow]: failed to load window nib file 'MainWindow'. 2024-11-12 21:48:02.477 VLC[35490:5483951] -[NSWindowController loadWindow]: failed to load window nib file 'MainWindow'. 2024-11-12 21:48:02.477 VLC[35490:5483951] -[NSWindowController loadWindow]: failed to load window nib file 'MainWindow'. 2024-11-12 21:48:02.477 VLC[35490:5483951] -[NSWindowController loadWindow]: failed to load window nib file 'MainWindow'. 2024-11-12 21:48:02.477 VLC[35490:5483951] -[NSWindowController loadWindow]: failed to load window nib file 'MainWindow'. 2024-11-12 21:48:02.477 VLC[35490:5483951] *** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInvalidArgumentException', reason: '*** setObjectForKey: object cannot be nil (key: <002d5085 e57f0000>)' *** First throw call stack: ( 0 CoreFoundation 0x00007fff82b912cb __exceptionPreprocess + 171 1 libobjc.A.dylib 0x00007fff979c248d objc_exception_throw + 48 2 CoreFoundation 0x00007fff82a8e01a -[__NSDictionaryM setObject:forKey:] + 1146 3 libmacosx_plugin.dylib 0x0000000111739fc0 vlc_entry_license__3_0_0f + 365120 ) libc++abi.dylib: terminating with uncaught exception of type NSException Abort trap: 6

Hopefully there is a relatively simple fix for this as I've already pulled out all of my hair trying to solve the issue thus far.