By Thilak May 21, 2007

How to Fix VLC Media Player in Vista

It has been almost over 5 months, since Microsoft released Windows Vista, but I got my free upgrade kit just two weeks ago. Like everybody else, even I had the curiosity to make the switch. Unfortunately, my favorite VLC media player which plays almost every media format refused to work on Vista. I could hear the sounds, but no video.

Thanks to my googling skills, I found the solution which told me to set the video rendering engine to OpenGL. Here’s what you have to do:

  1. Start VLC Media Player
  2. Click on Settings and select Preferences
  3. Now, Expand Video and just click on Output Modules
  4. Check the Advanced Option in the lower right corner and set the output module to OpenGL.
  5. Finally, you should restart VLC Media Player to reflect these changes.

Hopefully, future versions of VLC will set the OpenGL as the default video rendering engine.

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Discussion

Comments for “How to Fix VLC Media Player in Vista”

  • Yeah man,, Couldn't agree more.. VLC's Da best
  • Goo d tip thanks.
  • Awesome! I was crying the other day because I couldn't get it to work on my Vista... Now it does!
  • Thanks for the tip ;)
  • Memzy
    yes thank you.. it helped..
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