VLC: playing a DVD folder?

[terrypin]

The right-click menu for a video file in an XP folder includes the handy options to Play in VLC or Add to VLC Playlist. They work fine.

I also get the options if I click a folder, but if I select one it doesn't work, what I get is an Open With window asking me to select a program. VLC is not on the list. (BTW, I have no idea what determined the list; it looks very arbitrary.) If I then click Browse and select VLC, it does not get added to the list. Nothing happens.

Yet if I add VLC to my Send To folder and then use Send To > VLC, that plays the DVD correctly.

Can someone offer any insights please? Should the r-click menu work on a folder? If so, any idea why mine doesn't?

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Terry, East Grinstead, UK

[hech54]

I just drag the folder to my VLC Player icon on my desktop.....done.

[jman98]

You could just open VLC first and then select Open Folder from VLC because that always works.

[terrypin]

Thanks both. I re-installed VLC 2.0.0 and that appears to have fixed the problem.

However, it's created another, as described in my new post
VLC: window size settings not sticking

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Terry, East Grinstead, UK