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Old June 12th 11, 02:46 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
Jo-Anne[_4_]
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Default making VLC the default for playing DVDs

I recently started playing DVDs on my WinXP laptop. Each time I put a DVD in
the drive, it opens with PowerDVD. Since I like to use VLC Media Player, I
close the PowerDVD window, open VLC Media Player, and click on the DVD
drive. I'm sure there's a way to set VLC as the default DVD player. I'd be
grateful for instructions on how to do this or even for a link to a website
that explains it.

Thank you!

Jo-Anne


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Old June 12th 11, 05:26 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
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Jo-Anne wrote:

I recently started playing DVDs on my WinXP laptop. Each time I put a DVD in
the drive, it opens with PowerDVD. Since I like to use VLC Media Player, I
close the PowerDVD window, open VLC Media Player, and click on the DVD
drive. I'm sure there's a way to set VLC as the default DVD player. I'd be
grateful for instructions on how to do this or even for a link to a website
that explains it.


Not a hardware question. This is a software configuration issue or, at
best, an issue with filetype associations in the operating system.
VideoLan's forums are over at http://forum.videolan.org/.

Right-click on the .vob file (or whatever you open to play the movie),
select Open With, and browse to the VLC program's executable. Make sure
you enable the Remember option in the browse dialog.

Or you could set the file associations within VLC Player. Alas, for
some reason, its designers decided that not all the simple options will
be present in the advanced options. To set file associations in VLC's
preferences, use the simple interface for its Preferences dialog. Then
look under the Interface category of options. Enable the extension for
whatever is the video file you are trying to open in VLC.
  #3  
Old June 12th 11, 07:46 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
Patok[_2_]
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Default making VLC the default for playing DVDs

Jo-Anne wrote:
I recently started playing DVDs on my WinXP laptop. Each time I put a DVD in
the drive, it opens with PowerDVD. Since I like to use VLC Media Player, I
close the PowerDVD window, open VLC Media Player, and click on the DVD
drive. I'm sure there's a way to set VLC as the default DVD player. I'd be
grateful for instructions on how to do this or even for a link to a website
that explains it.


From my limited understanding, it seems that it's not possible. For
some reason, VLC does not register itself as a DVD playing
application. You can set it to play specific file types, but not devices.

To see which programs will play DVDs upon insertion, right-click on
the DVD drive, and in the AutoPlay tab you can see and set them. I
personally see nothing wrong with the default PowerDVD for that
purpose, and haven't changed it (but then, I don't usually play DVDs).
For example, Media Player Classic registers as a DVD playing
application - see if you'll like it instead.

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Old June 12th 11, 04:09 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
BillW50
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Default making VLC the default for playing DVDs

In ,
Jo-Anne wrote:
I recently started playing DVDs on my WinXP laptop. Each time I put a
DVD in the drive, it opens with PowerDVD. Since I like to use VLC
Media Player, I close the PowerDVD window, open VLC Media Player, and
click on the DVD drive. I'm sure there's a way to set VLC as the
default DVD player. I'd be grateful for instructions on how to do
this or even for a link to a website that explains it.

Thank you!

Jo-Anne


I am not 100% positive this will work, but it is worth a shot. There is
a program called "USB Safely Remove". And one of the things it can do is
to run a program when it detects a given device. "USB Safely Remove" is
handy for much more than this too, so it is worth looking into even if
you can't get this to work for this purpose.

http://safelyremove.com/

--
Bill
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Centrino Core Duo 1.83G - 2GB - Windows XP SP3


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Old June 13th 11, 04:52 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
Jo-Anne[_4_]
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"VanguardLH" wrote in message
...
Jo-Anne wrote:

I recently started playing DVDs on my WinXP laptop. Each time I put a DVD
in
the drive, it opens with PowerDVD. Since I like to use VLC Media Player,
I
close the PowerDVD window, open VLC Media Player, and click on the DVD
drive. I'm sure there's a way to set VLC as the default DVD player. I'd
be
grateful for instructions on how to do this or even for a link to a
website
that explains it.


Not a hardware question. This is a software configuration issue or, at
best, an issue with filetype associations in the operating system.
VideoLan's forums are over at http://forum.videolan.org/.

Right-click on the .vob file (or whatever you open to play the movie),
select Open With, and browse to the VLC program's executable. Make sure
you enable the Remember option in the browse dialog.

Or you could set the file associations within VLC Player. Alas, for
some reason, its designers decided that not all the simple options will
be present in the advanced options. To set file associations in VLC's
preferences, use the simple interface for its Preferences dialog. Then
look under the Interface category of options. Enable the extension for
whatever is the video file you are trying to open in VLC.



Thank you, Vanguard! I did look at the interface categories in VLC, and all
the options are checked--but still PowerDVD opens the files. I wonder if
PowerDVD can be uninstalled...

Jo-Anne


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Old June 13th 11, 04:55 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
Jo-Anne[_4_]
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Default making VLC the default for playing DVDs

"Patok" wrote in message
...
Jo-Anne wrote:
I recently started playing DVDs on my WinXP laptop. Each time I put a DVD
in the drive, it opens with PowerDVD. Since I like to use VLC Media
Player, I close the PowerDVD window, open VLC Media Player, and click on
the DVD drive. I'm sure there's a way to set VLC as the default DVD
player. I'd be grateful for instructions on how to do this or even for a
link to a website that explains it.


From my limited understanding, it seems that it's not possible. For some
reason, VLC does not register itself as a DVD playing application. You can
set it to play specific file types, but not devices.

To see which programs will play DVDs upon insertion, right-click on the
DVD drive, and in the AutoPlay tab you can see and set them. I personally
see nothing wrong with the default PowerDVD for that purpose, and haven't
changed it (but then, I don't usually play DVDs). For example, Media
Player Classic registers as a DVD playing application - see if you'll like
it instead.

--
You'd be crazy to e-mail me with the crazy. But leave the div alone.
*
Whoever bans a book, shall be banished. Whoever burns a book, shall burn.



Thank you, Patok! I've had trouble with PowerDVD from the first time I tried
playing DVDs. In one case, a DVD that was set up for the United States
(where I live) wouldn't play until I "changed" the area to the United
States. In another case, the sound wouldn't play at all. I had no problem
with the sound on that DVD in VLC.

Jo-Anne


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Old June 13th 11, 04:57 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
Jo-Anne[_4_]
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Default making VLC the default for playing DVDs

"BillW50" wrote in message
...
In ,
Jo-Anne wrote:
I recently started playing DVDs on my WinXP laptop. Each time I put a
DVD in the drive, it opens with PowerDVD. Since I like to use VLC
Media Player, I close the PowerDVD window, open VLC Media Player, and
click on the DVD drive. I'm sure there's a way to set VLC as the
default DVD player. I'd be grateful for instructions on how to do
this or even for a link to a website that explains it.

Thank you!

Jo-Anne


I am not 100% positive this will work, but it is worth a shot. There is a
program called "USB Safely Remove". And one of the things it can do is to
run a program when it detects a given device. "USB Safely Remove" is handy
for much more than this too, so it is worth looking into even if you can't
get this to work for this purpose.

http://safelyremove.com/

--
Bill
Gateway M465e ('06 era) - OE-QuoteFix v1.19.2
Centrino Core Duo 1.83G - 2GB - Windows XP SP3


Thank you, Bill! I had already bookmarked USB Safely Remove (I think from
one of your earlier posts). I'll definitely check it out for this
issue--although I wonder how it reacts if the media in the DVD player is
simply a data CD/DVD.

Jo-Anne


  #8  
Old June 13th 11, 06:23 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
BillW50
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Default making VLC the default for playing DVDs

In ,
Jo-Anne wrote:
Thank you, Vanguard! I did look at the interface categories in VLC,
and all the options are checked--but still PowerDVD opens the files.
I wonder if PowerDVD can be uninstalled...

Jo-Anne


All versions of PowerDVD that I know of, can be uninstalled.

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Centrino Core Duo 1.83G - 2GB - Windows XP SP3


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Old June 13th 11, 06:34 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
BillW50
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Default making VLC the default for playing DVDs

In ,
Jo-Anne wrote:
"BillW50" wrote in message
...
In ,
Jo-Anne wrote:
I recently started playing DVDs on my WinXP laptop. Each time I put
a DVD in the drive, it opens with PowerDVD. Since I like to use VLC
Media Player, I close the PowerDVD window, open VLC Media Player,
and click on the DVD drive. I'm sure there's a way to set VLC as the
default DVD player. I'd be grateful for instructions on how to do
this or even for a link to a website that explains it.

Thank you!

Jo-Anne


I am not 100% positive this will work, but it is worth a shot. There
is a program called "USB Safely Remove". And one of the things it
can do is to run a program when it detects a given device. "USB
Safely Remove" is handy for much more than this too, so it is worth
looking into even if you can't get this to work for this purpose.

http://safelyremove.com/


Thank you, Bill! I had already bookmarked USB Safely Remove (I think
from one of your earlier posts). I'll definitely check it out for this
issue--although I wonder how it reacts if the media in the DVD player
is simply a data CD/DVD.

Jo-Anne


Just curious, have you ever tried to change under Explorer (file
manager) under Tools-Folder Options and select the third tab called
File Types? Here the third one down is called DVD Video. Select this one
and press the Advanced button. It should list something like this:

Play
Play with PowerDVD (in bold)
Play with VLC media player

Select the VLC one. Then press the Set Default button (now this one
should be in bold). That should now open DVD movies with VLC instead of
PowerDVD.

--
Bill
Gateway M465e ('06 era) - OE-QuoteFix v1.19.2
Centrino Core Duo 1.83G - 2GB - Windows XP SP3


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Old June 13th 11, 08:38 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
Jo-Anne[_4_]
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Default making VLC the default for playing DVDs

"BillW50" wrote in message
...
In ,
Jo-Anne wrote:
"BillW50" wrote in message
...
In ,
Jo-Anne wrote:
I recently started playing DVDs on my WinXP laptop. Each time I put
a DVD in the drive, it opens with PowerDVD. Since I like to use VLC
Media Player, I close the PowerDVD window, open VLC Media Player,
and click on the DVD drive. I'm sure there's a way to set VLC as the
default DVD player. I'd be grateful for instructions on how to do
this or even for a link to a website that explains it.

Thank you!

Jo-Anne

I am not 100% positive this will work, but it is worth a shot. There
is a program called "USB Safely Remove". And one of the things it
can do is to run a program when it detects a given device. "USB
Safely Remove" is handy for much more than this too, so it is worth
looking into even if you can't get this to work for this purpose.

http://safelyremove.com/


Thank you, Bill! I had already bookmarked USB Safely Remove (I think
from one of your earlier posts). I'll definitely check it out for this
issue--although I wonder how it reacts if the media in the DVD player
is simply a data CD/DVD.

Jo-Anne


Just curious, have you ever tried to change under Explorer (file manager)
under Tools-Folder Options and select the third tab called File Types?
Here the third one down is called DVD Video. Select this one and press the
Advanced button. It should list something like this:

Play
Play with PowerDVD (in bold)
Play with VLC media player

Select the VLC one. Then press the Set Default button (now this one should
be in bold). That should now open DVD movies with VLC instead of PowerDVD.

--
Bill
Gateway M465e ('06 era) - OE-QuoteFix v1.19.2
Centrino Core Duo 1.83G - 2GB - Windows XP SP3


Hi, Bill,

I set VLC as the default, but PowerDVD still came up. I restarted the
computer; PowerDVD still came up. I deleted PowerDVD from the "list." It no
longer comes up--but VLC doesn't either. I have to open VLC, click on Open
Disc, and click Open. This is all on a DVD I had run earlier. So I tried a
new DVD, and it makes a strange sound spinning, doesn't stop spinning, and
VLC isn' working at all with it. I inserted one of the DVDs I had run
before, and it works OK--although I still have to open VLC and manually
start it.

From what I can see, this SHOULD have worked. I can't understand why it
hasn't--and I don't know what to do about the DVD that won't run at all.

Thank you for the suggestion, though!

Jo-Anne


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Old June 13th 11, 08:41 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
Jo-Anne[_4_]
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Default making VLC the default for playing DVDs

"Jo-Anne" wrote in message
...
"BillW50" wrote in message
...
In ,
Jo-Anne wrote:
"BillW50" wrote in message
...
In ,
Jo-Anne wrote:
I recently started playing DVDs on my WinXP laptop. Each time I put
a DVD in the drive, it opens with PowerDVD. Since I like to use VLC
Media Player, I close the PowerDVD window, open VLC Media Player,
and click on the DVD drive. I'm sure there's a way to set VLC as the
default DVD player. I'd be grateful for instructions on how to do
this or even for a link to a website that explains it.

Thank you!

Jo-Anne

I am not 100% positive this will work, but it is worth a shot. There
is a program called "USB Safely Remove". And one of the things it
can do is to run a program when it detects a given device. "USB
Safely Remove" is handy for much more than this too, so it is worth
looking into even if you can't get this to work for this purpose.

http://safelyremove.com/

Thank you, Bill! I had already bookmarked USB Safely Remove (I think
from one of your earlier posts). I'll definitely check it out for this
issue--although I wonder how it reacts if the media in the DVD player
is simply a data CD/DVD.

Jo-Anne


Just curious, have you ever tried to change under Explorer (file manager)
under Tools-Folder Options and select the third tab called File Types?
Here the third one down is called DVD Video. Select this one and press
the Advanced button. It should list something like this:

Play
Play with PowerDVD (in bold)
Play with VLC media player

Select the VLC one. Then press the Set Default button (now this one
should be in bold). That should now open DVD movies with VLC instead of
PowerDVD.

--
Bill
Gateway M465e ('06 era) - OE-QuoteFix v1.19.2
Centrino Core Duo 1.83G - 2GB - Windows XP SP3


Hi, Bill,

I set VLC as the default, but PowerDVD still came up. I restarted the
computer; PowerDVD still came up. I deleted PowerDVD from the "list." It
no longer comes up--but VLC doesn't either. I have to open VLC, click on
Open Disc, and click Open. This is all on a DVD I had run earlier. So I
tried a new DVD, and it makes a strange sound spinning, doesn't stop
spinning, and VLC isn' working at all with it. I inserted one of the DVDs
I had run before, and it works OK--although I still have to open VLC and
manually start it.

From what I can see, this SHOULD have worked. I can't understand why it
hasn't--and I don't know what to do about the DVD that won't run at all.

Thank you for the suggestion, though!

Jo-Anne

Addendum: I did finally get the new DVD to play. I don't know what went
wrong the first time. So the only issue is having to start VLC rather than
having it automatically play the DVDs.

Jo-Anne


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Old June 13th 11, 09:07 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
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Default making VLC the default for playing DVDs

Jo-Anne wrote:
"Jo-Anne" wrote in message
"BillW50" wrote in message

Jo-Anne
Just curious, have you ever tried to change under Explorer (file manager)
under Tools-Folder Options and select the third tab called File Types?
Here the third one down is called DVD Video. Select this one and press
the Advanced button. It should list something like this:

Play
Play with PowerDVD (in bold)
Play with VLC media player

Select the VLC one. Then press the Set Default button (now this one
should be in bold). That should now open DVD movies with VLC instead of
PowerDVD.


I set VLC as the default, but PowerDVD still came up. I restarted the
computer; PowerDVD still came up. I deleted PowerDVD from the "list." It
no longer comes up--but VLC doesn't either. I have to open VLC, click on
Open Disc, and click Open. This is all on a DVD I had run earlier. So I
tried a new DVD, and it makes a strange sound spinning, doesn't stop
spinning, and VLC isn' working at all with it. I inserted one of the DVDs
I had run before, and it works OK--although I still have to open VLC and
manually start it.

From what I can see, this SHOULD have worked. I can't understand why it
hasn't--and I don't know what to do about the DVD that won't run at all.

Addendum: I did finally get the new DVD to play. I don't know what went
wrong the first time. So the only issue is having to start VLC rather than
having it automatically play the DVDs.


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.

--
You'd be crazy to e-mail me with the crazy. But leave the div alone.
*
Whoever bans a book, shall be banished. Whoever burns a book, shall burn.
  #13  
Old June 13th 11, 09:09 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
BillW50
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Default making VLC the default for playing DVDs

In ,
Jo-Anne wrote:
"Jo-Anne" wrote in message
...
"BillW50" wrote in message
...
In ,
Jo-Anne wrote:
"BillW50" wrote in message
...
In ,
Jo-Anne wrote:
I recently started playing DVDs on my WinXP laptop. Each time I
put a DVD in the drive, it opens with PowerDVD. Since I like to
use VLC Media Player, I close the PowerDVD window, open VLC
Media Player, and click on the DVD drive. I'm sure there's a way
to set VLC as the default DVD player. I'd be grateful for
instructions on how to do this or even for a link to a website
that explains it. Thank you!

Jo-Anne

I am not 100% positive this will work, but it is worth a shot.
There is a program called "USB Safely Remove". And one of the
things it can do is to run a program when it detects a given
device. "USB Safely Remove" is handy for much more than this too,
so it is worth looking into even if you can't get this to work
for this purpose. http://safelyremove.com/

Thank you, Bill! I had already bookmarked USB Safely Remove (I
think from one of your earlier posts). I'll definitely check it
out for this issue--although I wonder how it reacts if the media
in the DVD player is simply a data CD/DVD.

Jo-Anne

Just curious, have you ever tried to change under Explorer (file
manager) under Tools-Folder Options and select the third tab
called File Types? Here the third one down is called DVD Video.
Select this one and press the Advanced button. It should list
something like this: Play
Play with PowerDVD (in bold)
Play with VLC media player

Select the VLC one. Then press the Set Default button (now this one
should be in bold). That should now open DVD movies with VLC
instead of PowerDVD.


Hi, Bill,

I set VLC as the default, but PowerDVD still came up. I restarted the
computer; PowerDVD still came up. I deleted PowerDVD from the
"list." It no longer comes up--but VLC doesn't either. I have to
open VLC, click on Open Disc, and click Open. This is all on a DVD I
had run earlier. So I tried a new DVD, and it makes a strange sound
spinning, doesn't stop spinning, and VLC isn' working at all with
it. I inserted one of the DVDs I had run before, and it works
OK--although I still have to open VLC and manually start it.

From what I can see, this SHOULD have worked. I can't understand why
it hasn't--and I don't know what to do about the DVD that won't run
at all. Thank you for the suggestion, though!

Jo-Anne

Addendum: I did finally get the new DVD to play. I don't know what
went wrong the first time. So the only issue is having to start VLC
rather than having it automatically play the DVDs.

Jo-Anne


Try this, Win+R and paste in this line (including quotes):

"C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe" --started-from-file dvd://d:

The last part "d:" change to whatever your drive letter is for your DVD
drive. In this example it is drive D. And that should start VLC and play
the DVD. If that works and it should if your path for VLC is the same,
let me know and we will go on from there.

--
Bill
Gateway M465e ('06 era) - OE-QuoteFix v1.19.2
Centrino Core Duo 1.83G - 2GB - Windows XP SP3


  #14  
Old June 13th 11, 09:24 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
BillW50
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Default making VLC the default for playing DVDs

In ,
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.

--
Bill
Gateway M465e ('06 era) - OE-QuoteFix v1.19.2
Centrino Core Duo 1.83G - 2GB - Windows XP SP3


  #15  
Old June 13th 11, 09:52 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
Jo-Anne[_4_]
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Posts: 1,101
Default making VLC the default for playing DVDs

"BillW50" wrote in message
...
In ,
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.

--
Bill
Gateway M465e ('06 era) - OE-QuoteFix v1.19.2
Centrino Core Duo 1.83G - 2GB - Windows XP SP3

Bingo! That did it, Bill. I do have TweakUI installed, but I didn't see an
Autoplay option under My Compuer. So I followed your directions starting
with right-clicking on the DVD drive. It worked! Thank you very much!

Jo-Anne


 




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