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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
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