VLC Won't Open

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  1. Condawg, Sep 10, 2008

    Condawg macrumors newbie

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    Well, I use VLC religiously as my video player, but it just stopped opening.

    I tried reinstalling and everything.... I double-click the icon, nothing. Or, I click the icon on the dock, nothing.
    Just won't seem to open.

    What could be causing this, and how can I fix it?
    Because I really dislike not having a playlist with my Quicktime, and since I'm watching AVI files, they won't work in iTunes (even though people say they should since I have the codec, they just don't go into there).

    Thanks
     
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  2. tomasremi, Sep 10, 2008

    tomasremi macrumors newbie

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    Had the same problem. Try dissinstling and erasing files from the following folder:

    ~/Library/Preferences/VLC/

    Then re-install it. If this doesn't work, try MPlayerOSX (http://mplayerosx.sourceforge.net/) I use this program, although I recognize VLC has some advantages, MPlayerOSX is rock solid and fails only on rare ocassions.

    Tomás
     
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  3. Condawg, Sep 10, 2008

    Condawg thread starter macrumors newbie

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    Ahh, man.
    Thank you so much

    Absolutely amazing. Worked like a charm.

    Thanks, man.
     
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  4. tomasremi, Sep 10, 2008

    tomasremi macrumors newbie

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    You're welcome ;)
     
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  5. val313, Jul 17, 2017

    val313 macrumors newbie

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    Thanks a lot, it worked for me also, I just had to change the preferences path

    rm -R ~/Library/Preferences/org.videolan.vlc/​

    For information, even if I was not able to launch VLC app using VLC icon from Applications folder, I was already able to lunch it using Terminal with this command

    /Applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/VLC
    ​
    So it's not necessary anymore, with the first command, now, I can launch it using the app icon directly.

    Thanks
     
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