Solved How do I get a DVD to autoplay?

[martinlest]

I thought this would be easy, but no. I have spent an hour now on this, to almost no avail. Specifically, what I am trying to achieve is, on putting a DVD into my drive,to get a list of autoplay options including 'Play with VLC', which when I select, opens the DVD's top menu, from where I can choose to play the video, select audio options etc.

If I insert the DVD into my other Win7 PC, that is exactly what happens - I get a window showing an option to play with VLC, and when I click on it, it goes to the DVD's top menu and I can choose to start play. But I just can't get that to happen on my main PC...

I have tried an endless string of suggestions I found Googling - editing the autoplay options, setting options using Default Programs Editor, deleting the MountPoints2 'folder' in the registry etc. etc. - but still, when I insert a DVD, though I have now got the option 'Play with VLC', when I select that, VLC opens a blank window: if I click the VLC Play arrow, it asks me to browse for the media. If I select the ifo file, nothing plays in any case. If I double-click on the DVD icon in My Computer, it says 'Application not found'.

I'd be really grateful for a step-by-step on how to do this, please, 'cos frankly, having turned 60 now, I am running out of patience! Was planning to play my new DVD of Alban Berg's Lulu today, but so far, it looks like it 'aint gonna happen!

Thanks folks!

 

[wither 2]

Hi martinlest-

If you select the disc from the VLC Player, will it open?

 

[Megahertz07]

There are two versions of VLC. One is a portable version, that don't need to be installed. The other is an installation version.
The installation version modify the register to take an action when you insert a DVD. The portable version doesn't.
Try to reinstall VLC https://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/3.0.6/win64/vlc-3.0.6-win64.exe

 

[martinlest]

Try to reinstall VLC https://download.videolan.org/pub/vi....0.6-win64.exe

I never imagined the fault lay with VLC! I uninstalled my old version and installed the one from your link. Now it all works perfectly, with no changes needed to anything else that I set up. Thank you very much!

 

[Megahertz07]

Good it's working as you expected to.