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Patok wrote:
BillW50 wrote:
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Patok wrote:
Duh. As I wrote before, the only application that will play DVDs
upon inserting them, is the one listed in the AutoPlay tab of your
DVD drive, under DVD movie. (You never said what applications you
see there.) The entry you've been setting in Folder Options,
following Bill's advice, is for right-clicking an already inserted
and identified DVD disk, it is *not* for automatically playing it.

Thanks Patok for the information. Here is something that should work
if you have TweakUI installed.

My Computer
AutoPlay
Handlers

Here you can select VLC to autoplay DVD movies.

You can do this without TweakUI too. Right click on the DVD drive in
Explorer and select properties. AutoPlay tab, DVD Movie (drop down
menu), and Select an action to perform. Then select Play DVD movie
using VideoLAN VLC media player.

But can you do that? For some reason, I don't have VLC in the list
of autoplay handlers, and I don't see any option in the VLC
preferences to set that association. Maybe it asked once, when I was
installing it, and I said no?

In the meantime, I see that Jo-Anne was able to set VLC to play her
DVDs; apparently on her system, VLC had added itself to the list of
DVD playing programs, and all she needed to do was select it in the
AutoPlay tab.

However, I found that in TweakUI one can Create a new association
in the Handlers list, and I was able to add VLC to play DVDs. So, in
case someone doesn't have it there, here's how to do it:

- In TweakUI, in My Computer - AutoPlay - Handlers, click on
"Create" - check the desired checkboxes - DVD, etc.
- click "Change program", find and select the desired program - on my
comp, VLC is in "Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\"
- in the "Args:" field, enter "dvd://%L\"
- write something memorable in the Description and Using fields
- exit TweakUI, and then right-click on the DVD drive in Win Explorer
- in the AutoPlay tab, select the desred type (DVD movie, etc), and
then choose the new entry for "Select an action to perform"

If you use custom install of VLC, I believe you need to check Discs
Playback to have the handlers created. Not 100% sure though.

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Bill
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