Ok kimsland, I uninstalled VLC completely and then reinstalled it. No difference. I still get that same error. BTW, I try to get as many inputs as I can, as you can tell. The icon was no longer available when I uninstalled it, but out of curiosity I did a Search in System Files and about a dozen items came up with VLC in them. Why were they still there? This time I installed VLC by the Terminal. (sudo get-apt install vlc). A lot of good that did.
Ok, I found my problem. Using a How To instructions for making VLC my default player, it called out to make a change in the VLC properties command line to "vlc 512 %M", when it should have been "vlc %m". Once I made the change, the error message disappeared. Thanks anyway kimsland for your help & support and keen observation of my posts.
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