Maybe join 2 with 3:
If VLC is not installed, add a text in configuration tab telling that the user 
have to install VLC, informing the specific bit version;
Else if VLC is installed, but with the wrong bit version, tell the correct bit 
version.

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> Em 23 de dez de 2015, à(s) 03:01, Tim and Alison Bentley 
> <[email protected]> escreveu:
> 
> 2 is the better solution.
> 4 is impossible for me as VLC is not in the main packaging repositories. 
> 
> On 22 December 2015 at 21:03, Tomas Groth <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> As a new release is coming up a lot sooner that originally expected, it also 
> means that we need to make a decision regarding how we handle our VLC 
> integration.
> 
> Currently we tell users to install VLC manually and this causes problems on 
> Windows and Mac OS X, where users have trouble installing the correct version 
> (32-bit on Windows and 64-bit on Mac). This is a real problem for many of our 
> users!
> So to handle this there's a few things we can do:
> 
> 1. Keep things as they are.
> 2. Add a text in the "Player" configuration tab that tells the users that 
> they need XX-bit version of VLC to get it detected
> 3. Do as above, but do real detection of VLC lib to see if the wrong bit 
> version of VLC is installed.
> 4. Bundle VLC with OpenLP
> 5. ??
> 
> Personally I would prefer 2 (IMHO the simplest for us) or 4 (most user 
> friendly).
> Let me know what you think!
> 
> Best regards,
> Tomas
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