VLC Won't Open

[Condawg]

Well, I use VLC religiously as my video player, but it just stopped opening.

I tried reinstalling and everything.... I double-click the icon, nothing. Or, I click the icon on the dock, nothing.
Just won't seem to open.

What could be causing this, and how can I fix it?
Because I really dislike not having a playlist with my Quicktime, and since I'm watching AVI files, they won't work in iTunes (even though people say they should since I have the codec, they just don't go into there).

Thanks

 

[tomasremi]

Had the same problem. Try dissinstling and erasing files from the following folder:

~/Library/Preferences/VLC/

Then re-install it. If this doesn't work, try MPlayerOSX (http://mplayerosx.sourceforge.net/) I use this program, although I recognize VLC has some advantages, MPlayerOSX is rock solid and fails only on rare ocassions.

Tomás

 

[Condawg]

Had the same problem. Try dissinstling and erasing files from the following folder:

~/Library/Preferences/VLC/

Then re-install it. If this doesn't work, try MPlayerOSX (http://mplayerosx.sourceforge.net/) I use this program, although I recognize VLC has some advantages, MPlayerOSX is rock solid and fails only on rare ocassions.

Tomás

Ahh, man.
Thank you so much

Absolutely amazing. Worked like a charm.

Thanks, man.

 

[tomasremi]

You're welcome

 

[val313]

Thanks a lot, it worked for me also, I just had to change the preferences path

rm -R ~/Library/Preferences/org.videolan.vlc/​

For information, even if I was not able to launch VLC app using VLC icon from Applications folder, I was already able to lunch it using Terminal with this command

/Applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/VLC
​

So it's not necessary anymore, with the first command, now, I can launch it using the app icon directly.

Thanks

 

[robema]

I just have encountered that problem. My system is iMac 9,1 Mac OS X 10.11.6 I also use (needs new battery, so not right now) an MBPro with the same Core Duo & same limitation.
I went to their site & they say version 3.0.6 will not work anymore with Core Duo CPU's. The alternatives are to use obsolete & unsupported versions or beg money all over for a new Mac (I am seriously considering building my own PC).
Is there a workaround?