VLC option greyed out

schuelerj

Hey guys, I need some assistance with a small issue I'm having with OpenLP.  It seems no matter what I do, I cannot get VLC player to become available in the settings.

This is on my personal laptop running Windows 7 SP1, VLC 2.1.3, OpenLP 2.0.4.  I've gotten this same combination to work perfectly on three other Win 7 SP1 machines.  I've tried the following with no success:

• Re-installed OpenLP
• Re-installed VLC
• Un-installed VLC and installed older version (2.0.3 & 2.1.2)
• Un-installed both VLC and OpenLP and deleted all traces I could find of both programs (including deleted appdata\roaming\openlp folder and deleted all openlp entries in the registry), then re-installed.
• manually inserted 'vlc' into the media players key in the registry

Just now, I ran the OpenLP debug version and found the following lines in the openlp.log file:

DEBUG    check_available_media_players
DEBUG    Importing controller openlp.core.ui.media.phononplayer
DEBUG    Importing controller openlp.core.ui.media.vlcplayer
DEBUG    VLC could not be loaded: 0.9.6 Grishenko
DEBUG    Importing controller openlp.core.ui.media.webkitplayer

full log file here:  https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3WjSLnEx9ipOHJQTG5UTm92aDA/edit?usp=sharing

The log file leads be to believe OpenLP is somehow trying to load an old version of VLC 0.9.6, but I can't seem to find any other reference to that version of VLC on my system?

Thanks in advance.

tgc

Hi!

Have you tried to clean the registry for any possible trace of VLC?
Look at this for inspiration: http://joshstaivin.blogspot.com/2013/02/completely-uninstall-vlc-if-it-is.html
Also note that even if you are on 64-bit windows you'll need to install 32-bit VLC for it to work with OpenLP.

raoul

I'm guessing that (as tgc pointed out), you're running 64-bit VLC. OpenLP is currently a 32-bit application, so you need to make sure you're running the 32-bit version of VLC too.

schuelerj

Thanks for the responses - I didn't realize forum email notifications would be turned off by default.

Anyways, I solved the problem last week sometime.  I started searching for the libraries loaded by the VLC python scripts located in the OpenLP program folder, and discovered there where in fact two versions of VLC installed on my system.

I had installed Gmote some time ago, and apparently, it installs an older version of VLC into its program folder (version 0.9.6 to be exact).  I got rid of Gmote, and VLC works perfectly with OpenLP now.