User:Chris Beazell/VLC Commits Suicide

I use VLC as my main media player. Seeing as how it plays everything, I don't really need to turn to anything else. However, I've had this problem a few times in the past where it just suddenly commits suicide. By "commits suicide", I mean that it will no longer play video files of any format. I don't know the cause of this problem or the true solution to it, but I do have a black magic solution which does work.

This is on Windows. I have no clue how I'd go about doing this on Linux being that nothing tells you its install path on Linux :(

Resurrecting VLC

 * 1) Uninstall VLC from Add/Remove Programs. Select the option to remove preferences and cache.
 * 2) Reboot the computer. (seems to be required, I've tried resurrecting it twice now without rebooting, no luck)
 * 3) Bring up a Windows Explorer window.
 * 4) Navigate to c:\Documents and Settings\ \Application Data. (this is a hidden folder)
 * 5) Delete the vlc folder if it's present.
 * 6) Navigate to c:\Program Files.
 * 7) Delete the Videolan folder.
 * 8) Now reinstall VLC and everything should work once again :)

I wonder...

 * What version of VLC was it that they removed all ability to manually move things up and down in the playlist? 0.8.4a can't, I don't remember 0.8.2 being able to...  Only being able to sort/reverse sort/shuffle sucks ass.  If by chance someone who works on it sees this, please re-add the Move Up/Move Down buttons and the ability to drag playlist items around the list to change their positions.
 * Could anyone who works on VLC actually track down and smite this bug so I don't have to deal with resurrecting VLC every once and a while? Seems to be Windows-only, but then again, I use VLC on Windows a lot more than I use VLC on Linux.