Plugin disfunctional on every VLC update?

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Plugin disfunctional on every VLC update?

stonecrusher opened this issue 4 years ago · comments

Hi
Just wanted to know if there's something wrong on my system or if it's normal.
I don't remember when it started, but at least on the latest four VLC updates the plugin function broke and I had to reinstall it.

The plugin dll didn't change for the different VLC versions and it was still in the correct folder.

So maybe another issue of #32 ?

VLC 64bit
Win10x64 v1909

nurupo · Answer 1 · Tue Jul 07 2020 21:17:23 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

and it was still in the correct folder

Are you sure that the plugin was still present in {VLC}\plugins\video_filter\ after the update? I thought that VLC updates essentially re-installed everything, removing all previously existing files, so the dll would be gone, which is why you have to install it back after VLC updates. I don't use Windows often, will need to check this later when I'm near a Windows PC.

stonecrusher · Answer 2 · Tue Jul 07 2020 23:19:44 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Are you sure that the plugin was still present

Not 100%, but I just ran a test in a VM and can confirm that this is the behaviour when updating from VLC 3.0.9.2 to 3.0.11.0 on a Win8.1x64 machine. But in that case I could "fix" it by just restarting VLC as recommended (the "open after installation" in the setup apparently doesn't count). That was not the case for my Win10 system.

I thought that VLC updates essentially re-installed everything

Well, if you install you have the choice between clean reinstall and update (keep settings). Of course you don't want to sacrifice your settings on each update.

stonecrusher · Answer 3 · Sat Jul 11 2020 06:31:14 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I couldn't reproduce on another Win10 machine.
I guess it had something to do with having x64 and x32 versions installed on the same machine (one via faulty package manager).
However it seems like a problem with the VLC installer, not with the plugin.
I'll see how the next update on this machine works and report back. But apparently it's not a general problem, others would have had it, too.

nurupo · Answer 4 · Mon Jul 13 2020 07:06:24 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Got to test it on Windows 10 with 64-it VLC 3.0.8, updating it to 3.0.11, keeping the existing settings. The plugin has remained in the {VLC}\plugins\video_filter\ directory and worked right away. Not sure why I remember the dll getting removed and having to re-install it before, perhaps I'm misremembering or VLC has changed the way it re-installs so it keeps unknown plugins now.

stonecrusher · Answer 5 · Tue May 11 2021 06:39:16 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Happened again with 3.0.14 update.
Plugin was not present anymore in the directory.
Maybe it's something with the windows filesystem rights management.
Did not try to reproduce in VM yet.