VLC playback of WTV (Microsoft Windows Media Center Recordings)

Hopefully someone has a quick and easy answer, because I am new to this and don’t have much of a guess.

VLC on original installation worked fine with all files WTV included, after a few days and a plethora of updates it started to open the files, then immediately close VLC with no errors. I removed the installation and installed VLC beta and it was working nicely, but recently it started doing the same thing, opening and immediately closing with no on screen errors.

Any help or guidance would be appreciated.

Thanks.