VLC users on Windows might encounter issues when trying to auto-update VLC from version 3.0.12 and 3.0.13.
On May 10th 2021, the VideoLAN organization released VLC 3.0.13 and enabled auto-updates.
This usually would be fairly straightforward, a prompt would appear informing you that an update is available, you click download and install, and that would be the end of it.
However and unfortunately, for this particular update, a few additional tedious (if not painful) steps will be necessary.
In order to update to 3.0.14, you will need to go to https://www.videolan.org/vlc to download and install VLC manually.
If you already ran the updater and it downloaded the installer, you can run it manually by opening a file explorer (Windows key + E, or just click the explorer icon) and enter %TEMP% as the location.
You'll see the installer there. It will be named vlc-3.0.14-win32.exe or vlc-3.0.14-win64.exe respectively depending on whether you're using a 32bit or 64bit version of Windows.
On May 10th 2021, the VideoLAN organization released VLC 3.0.13 and enabled auto-updates.
This usually would be fairly straightforward, a prompt would appear informing you that an update is available, you click download and install, and that would be the end of it.
However and unfortunately, for this particular update, a few additional tedious (if not painful) steps will be necessary.
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| Source: VideoLAN |
How to update?
The issue was introduced in 3.0.12, but it didn't become obvious until we started rolling out 3.0.13.In order to update to 3.0.14, you will need to go to https://www.videolan.org/vlc to download and install VLC manually.
If you already ran the updater and it downloaded the installer, you can run it manually by opening a file explorer (Windows key + E, or just click the explorer icon) and enter %TEMP% as the location.
You'll see the installer there. It will be named vlc-3.0.14-win32.exe or vlc-3.0.14-win64.exe respectively depending on whether you're using a 32bit or 64bit version of Windows.
Source: VideoLAN
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