[vlc] Re: VideoLAN as default player under W2000

[Olivier Teulière]

On Tue, Oct 08, 2002, Fabien ILLIDE wrote:
> The line for VLC (in "advanced") is :
> "C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VideoLAN Client\vlc.exe" %1
> 
> (as for WMP it's "C:\Path-To-WMP\wmp.exe" %1)
> 
> Is it something wrong in this ?

The problem is not with your line, but with vlc itself, which is looking
for a 'plugins' subdirectory in the _current_ directory (and not in the
installation directory).

So, until this is fixed in vlc, you'll have to change manually the
current directory. For example, create a file 'vlc.bat', containing the
3 following lines:

@echo off
cd "C:\your\path"
vlc "%1"

Then, you can associate all the files you want with 'vlc.bat' instead of 'vlc.exe'.

Note: this will work, but a dos dialog box will appear in the
background. There may be a nicer way to achieve the same result, without
this dialog...

> And does it need a(nother) reboot to be take in count ?

Certainly not :-)

-- 
Olivier
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