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:
- Start VLC Media Player
- Click on Settings and select Preferences
- Now, Expand Video and just click on Output Modules
- Check the Advanced Option in the lower right corner and set the output module to OpenGL.
- 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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wrote, on May 22nd, 2007
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wrote, on May 22nd, 2007
Yeah man,, Couldn’t agree more.. VLC’s Da best
wrote, on May 23rd, 2007
Goo d tip thanks.
wrote, on May 23rd, 2007
Awesome! I was crying the other day because I couldn’t get it to work on my Vista… Now it does!
wrote, on May 23rd, 2007
Thanks for the tip
wrote, on May 27th, 2007
yes thank you.. it helped..
wrote, on May 28th, 2007
Thanks so much for the tip! I was at a lost of how to get it to work, but this came up straight away and video was up and working in seconds. Hopefully vlc will fix issues with vista but in the mean time thanks so much!
wrote, on May 28th, 2007
[...] soluzione è stata trovata da techbuzz.net e consiste nell’impostare come motore di rendering l’OpenGL. Ecco, nel dettaglio, i [...]
wrote, on May 30th, 2007
Thanks man!! I was looking for that fix. Tried the new skins and I have decided to not use Windows Media Player for good!!!
wrote, on May 31st, 2007
good one thanks vlc is the best
wrote, on June 5th, 2007
[...] eseguito all’interno di Windows Vista. Esiste però una soluzione che il sito tech-buzz.net ci propone per ovviare al [...]
wrote, on June 26th, 2007
fuh..i almost cried when my vlc doesnt have any picture..lol..thanks a lot!!
wrote, on August 18th, 2007
Thanks a lot
wrote, on September 7th, 2007
yeah……. vlc is good media player, but GOM player leaves everything in dust behind, just try GOM for once, and i am sure, you wont ever take name of vlc in future.
wrote, on September 19th, 2007
Thank you soooooooo much!
You’re a superstar!
wrote, on September 23rd, 2007
Thanks for the info! I’ve been tryin loadsa different things to get VLC to work ever since i got vista, now i does! Thanks
wrote, on September 26th, 2007
I couldn’t believe how many others were experiencing the same thing. I actually stumbled across this simple fix by mistake and I’m glad I did. Thanks abunch!
wrote, on September 29th, 2007
amazing. i have been waiting for this.
wrote, on October 28th, 2007
Thanks for this tip. It was very clear and simple. Now I can watch my movie and enjoy my sunday afternoon. You have my gratitude.
Alex
wrote, on November 10th, 2007
Thanks! It worked! I been trying everyting but this was the trick! You made my day…
wrote, on December 10th, 2007
Thank you! Problem solved, you rock!
wrote, on December 19th, 2007
thanx a lot 4 d tip
it really workd……..i was looking 4 it
once again thank you
wrote, on March 2nd, 2008
Thanks a lot for the solution boss.
wrote, on March 7th, 2008
Thank you so much. Its working fine.
wrote, on June 25th, 2008
Download The latest player 8.6h…its made to be compt. with Vista. M usin it with no problems and modifications
wrote, on June 29th, 2008
Hey Buddy,
Thanks for your TIP………
It worked…….
wrote, on September 14th, 2008
sorry if this is a repeat but, i have vista, and vlc and they work fine together(i cant play dvds but im gonna try those fixes to sort that out later =) ) my problem is that i like to use Vlc for screen capping, it takes the best snapshots and i watch alot of sort of…visually arresting films, that i like to cap for wallpapers etc
Well ths function has ceased to work on my vlc player, in fact it crashes the program when ever i try to do it
is this a vista compatability problem that will be fixed in the Vista ready VLC release or is this my computer being lame?
wrote, on September 26th, 2008
I don’t worry about VLC player not fully compatible with Vista, since Media player classic does all the magic.
wrote, on October 26th, 2008
good morning,
i have the opposite problem,audio is working scattered.
i tried various settings on instruments but it doesn’t work.
i use winxp sp2.
many thanks
antonio
wrote, on November 19th, 2008
High i have the VLC working really nice on my vista but there is this problem with the graphic equalizer. It keeps on deactivating my personal setting at the end of each song. Have to get each it adjusted every now and then - it sucks! Need help.
TDN.
wrote, on December 24th, 2008
Dear Admin:
You are hero of the day. Yahoo!!
Thank You,
Phyllis
wrote, on January 15th, 2009
truly your google skill are appreciated..
thanks.
neo
wrote, on January 16th, 2009
Thanks a bunch for the tip.
wrote, on January 20th, 2009
Thank you soooooo mutch
i thought it was something wrong whit my computer luckely it was just the wrong setup!
great help dude
// Sofia from sweden
wrote, on January 20th, 2009
okej i just sad that it work for like 2 minutes, sorry to truble you again but i need help!
plz
wrote, on February 10th, 2009
when i try to run the vlc media player after downloading it a window opens which says nsis error…n it tells installer integrity check has failed..what do i do… please help me.
wrote, on March 25th, 2009
ya , i will try the solution , i have visited many sites and found the same solution for this problem.
Thnx anyway