The playlist in VLC on my mac works fine.

(hehehe I keep beating birdy to post by seconds! )

I currently have Real Player as my Primary (or whatever the term is) video player. I have unticked the box in LW so that playback of video files does not defaut to LW.

I selected a movie right clicked & launched only for nothing to happen ....
any thoughts (no bad ones ones please like ... Stupid Bloody Aussies )

Cheers.

Try launching the file from outside of LW. Go to your LW library, click on Saved Files then Explore. Your saved folder will open for you, try launching from there. Are you getting any error messages from RP?
If it doesn't launch with RP, right click on the file > open with & choose VLC. There shouldn't be any codecs issues with VLC, if it won't play it then there's probably something wrong with the file.

What stupid bloody Aussies... I thought we were all brilliant?

Looks like after beating St.Kilda last night, my team is on the way to win the grand final!

In your dreams