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      pornofan last edited by

      new, faster home computer. Reinstalled VLC and now have version 2.2.0. I thought I had the latest and greatest but apparently not.

      Anyway, back in the Old Days, if I found an .avi file on my machine using Windows Explorer of a Search function, all I had to do
      was double click and it would open in VLC. No more.

      When I ran a video file in VLC I used to be able to step through it one frame at a time. That option has now fanished.

      Also had a little dot on the menu at the bottom, the menu that allows me to move to the next or previous file already loaded.
      That little dot allowed me to save the frame being viewed. Not anymore.

      Now I have to go to the Video tab up top and select the Capture menu item, instead of my former one-click ease.

      Have just screwed around with all this for over half an hour on the VLC web page and elsewhere.

      Can some wise person just tell me how to fix this stuff please? It's probably easy as sin, but I need all the help I can get.

      Many thanks.

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        cannonmc last edited by

        I am using 2.0.2 but you should have something similar on the File menu as Tools/Customize Interface.

        This brings up a host of goodies that you can play around with to add to the toolbars at the bottom. You can see your little snapshot button in line 1 🙂

        If you poke ( 😮 ) around a bit more the other things might show up

        PS Just reread the first part of your query. Have you checked that your media files are associated with the new VLC. Check the properties (right click/properties of any file) and the first page will tell you what it open with as default.

        And halve the time to open a file in Windows by choosing 'single click' - Control Panel/Folder Options/General

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          pornofan last edited by

          Boy, that worked! Knew the options ought to be there somewhere, and voila! Not exactly intuitive how to move everything around, though I am sure they think it is, but all my favorite options are now restored, and some new ones as well.

          Despite having tried repeatedly and unsuccessfully to associate file types to VLC instead of WMP, and despite my frustration at finding a VLC option to associate stuff to, somehow, almost like magic, the Properties menu did the deed. Baffled what I was doing wrong before, but all is well now. And somehow, after hours of trying to fix the Permissions so that I can move, edit, download, etc., now apparently I have got the whole system to agree that I, as sole user and administrator of a home machine, can have access to do anything to the files that I want.

          If I go to a list of files and double click on any video or audio file type now, it will automatically open in VLC the way it is supposed to. i prefer double click mode for that to make sure my finger has not gone rogue and started operating like the German scientist's arm in Dr. Strangelove, or for mystery fans, The Hands of Mr. Ottermole. Possessed with a power of their own, my fingers may twitch once by accident or eveil intent not my own, so clicking twice is a useful safeguard in my case.

          When I tried opening a file from a menu just now, I already had VLC open and properly configured to my taste. However, going directly from a Search or other list of files does not seem to show the same useful VLC configuration and options, and it does not seem to want to re-edit them either. Grrr. One of Nature's mysteries (silent "t"), I guess.

          So am content with how things stand, and grateful for the truly practical insight and guidance. Later, there will be another go at mTorrent, which has not been allowing me to download files from an incomplete torrent and do various other standard things because it insisted I do not have permission to add, change, or otherwise manipulate the files that no one else has access too. I think that in the course of doing the VLC configuration and file associations, I have also finally (crossing fingers) got the Permissions all in my hands at last. In which case, I can possibly seed more stuff that I was seeding before The Great Computer Upgrade of 2015 and Me v It cyber confrontation. I mean, maybe now it won't be all balky when I try to make something available that always used to be available.

          Feeling a little optimistic now, and very grateful.

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            cannonmc last edited by

            We must celebrate any modest success over the rampant technology  😄

            I'm not quite sure I read the bit about search and clicking correctly. Whether you had VLC already open for that. Have you tried clicking on a file in Search without VLC open just to see what happens? I have no idea if anything will be different but it might be worth a try. Not sure where it takes you after that.

            Click/double-click, entirely a matter of personal choice. I choose single click because I am very lazy.

            You will have to explore the mTorrent jungle without me 😞 I don't understand torrents, except to upload and download them (and getting them deleted), mostly without bother. And I only ever use uTorrent 3.0 these days.

            Good luck  🙂

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