VLC suddenly not playing movies?

[stormypenguin]

I'm not sure if this is the correct forum to look for help in, but it seemed the most fitting...

If anybody is familiar with VLC I would appreciate your help -

Today I tried to open up a movie I downloaded last night. Yesterday movies were playing fine in VLC, today, nothing plays, and it stops responding when I try to close it.

I'm utterly lost!

Thanks..

 

[spinnerlys]

What kind of movie files? Where do they come from? What VLC version and what Mac OS X version are you running?
Did a restart help?

 

[stormypenguin]

Thank you for the reply -

They are .avi files. newest version of VLC, I tried uninstalling and reinstalling... repaired permissions... restarted computer... OS X 10.5.8.

And all movie files were playing normally up to this...

Thank you.

 

[lwseagull]

VLC stopped playing avi files

I use VLC to play avi movies/tv on my macbook pro. it worked fine for a couple of years. then it stopped playing after a couple of minutes and VLC became unresponsive. The same thing happened with avi files that played fine the day before.
I upgraded VLC to the latest version. 2.1.4 Rincewind
I updated OSX Lion to the latest version. 10.7.5
I re-installed OSX.
It problem stayed exactly the same.
Most interestingly, I downloaded an add-on to play avi files in QT.... And got exactly the same problem!!! Which led me to believe it could be a H/W problem.
I ran AHT and it said everything was fine.
Yours was the only post I found anywhere on the internet, that describe exactly the same problem.

Did you ever find a solution?

 

[Fishrrman]

To the poster directly above?

What happens when you RIGHT click on a video file, and choose "Open with..." VLC ?

 

[lwseagull]

I tried RightClick and OpenWith VLC. Result exactly as before. I also tried it with QuickTime; Same result.
My plan is to wipe the disk and reinstall OSX from scratch. However I want to exhaust all other avenues before I try that, in case I delete something I've forgotten to backup.

 

[lwseagull]

Problem solved

I fixed the problem by downloading the latest version of vuze; Deleting the avi files, torrents etc. and Downloading them again from scratch.
I still have no idea what the problem was. Files on the mac don't suddenly corrupt themselves, and leave no trace for the Disk Utility to find.