On Thu, 29 May 2025 08:29:17 -0400, John B. Smith <crasso@verizon.net>
wrote:

On Mon, 26 May 2025 22:01:09 -0400, Paul <nospam@needed.invalid>
wrote:

On Mon, 5/26/2025 7:53 PM, John B. Smith wrote:

I use VLC Media Player to play videos. In its Interface Settings there
is an "Only Allow One Instance" you can check. Then if you display a
list of video files in Windows Explorer you can hi-light several of
them, right-click and select "Add to VLC media players Playlist". Then
you can play them one at a time using 'N' to proceed to your next
file.

In Win7 64bit this feature behaves resonably well for me, though if
you select too many files it may not pick them all up. But in
WinXP32bit, about 30% of the time, instead of playing "One Instance"
it plays all of the ones you've checked at the same time. It's
disconcerting sometimes to get 7 videos all playing at the same time
and sometimes have trouble stopping them without a freeze or
something. If I do get them all stopped, then this anomaly always
happens if I try to play multiple vids in VLC I can't get rid of it
except by rebooting xp.

I'd like to get an idea of what's happening, and I'd like to get a
better way of resetting VLC to prevent it without going to the reboot.

According to available info, the win32 version is supposed to work
with WinXP through W11. There is a separate version for Win98
(which might involve an older version number). At least nominally,
it is supported.

The only thing that comes to mind, is some sort of threading
issue. Maybe it was supposed to block, and play the first video to
the end, before the player sub-module gets re-started to play a second >>video. And instead, it's rushing ahead, launching everything in the
list.

In the properties of an executable, there is an application compatibilty >>box. You can set that to various OSes, in an attempt to change the behavior >>of a software. I must confess in this case, none of the choices would be >>particularly useful. But unless there is a setting in VLC concerning >>threading, to stop that from happening, that's the only other
option I can think of.

Compatibiity tab

"run this program in compatibility mode for"

<Drop down menu for OS version chooser>

Paul

You nailed it, Paul. Compatible with Win95 - always malfunctions.
Compatible with Win2000 - works like a charm.

VLC started giving same problem. They have an archive of past
incarnations. I was able to go back to version 3.18 and all was ok
again.

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