Non-existent library directory will break VLC
Some people including WinBeta author ;) suffers from crashing in seconds.
At least some of them seem to come from non-existent directory issue.
Here is a solution.
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Double-click a video file to play it on VLC
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Go to settings via charms bar (You may even not be able to access settings screen because of crashing. Step 1 will be a good workaround.)
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Click "Add a new folder" buttons.
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Just close the file pickers.
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Check library directiories.
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Delete all non-existent directiories. This may include OneDrive\Music or SkyDrive\Music.
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Reboot VLC.
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Check if VLC still goes off in seconds.
I did confirm this issue in three of my machines and this method worked on all of them. However, I couldn't "reproduce" this issue in same machine as I cannot download 0.1.0 anymore. I tried uninstalling VLC to reinstall it for reproducing, but it seems it's rollbacked.