In this situation, create an exception rule for the VLC media player in your firewall. If VLC is able to start when you have disabled the firewall, the problem is caused by the firewall. This guide provides two methods to fix VLC media player won’t open in Windows 10.įirst method, temporarily stop your firewall and try to open VLC again. In my experience, the cause of VLC won’t open issue is often related to firewall and VLC cache file. This app is tested for VLC 3.0.11, it should work with all minor 3.x.VLC is one of the best media player out there, but since there are no perfect application, sometimes you will have to fix VLC won’t open and can’t start properly. If you often watch films at night and fall asleep before playlist ends, you can place bootstrapper.exe in %AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup so the trigger will be online each time Windows boots up. Now each time your movie/playlist ends, a popup will bounce on your screen warning your PC will shut down in 20 seconds it has a button to abort the shutdown as well. The script is witten and compiled for Windows OS using Autoit3: Instructions: So I came up with something slightly better: a trigger which runs independently from vlc thread and checks when movie is over/playlist is empty. There are workarounds on internet for this issue but all I could see are tedious methods using VBS/Batch/Bash scripts + drag&drops (eg: ) which I believe is terrible Why should my computer stay awake that long for no reason? Videolan I'm not a senior software engineer but that's basic feature, a checkbox in settings would do it: "Shutdown computer after playlist ends". That means my PC gets to stay awake 6 more hours and wait for my ass to wake up and shut it down. I normally sleep ~8 hours/night but the film I watch is <= 2hours. Though every once in a while at around 10PM I may decide to play a movie on my computer and fall asleep at it. VLC Player is one of the best ones in the world.
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