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VLC media player - sound but no picture

  • 29-04-2011 1:06pm
    #1
    bobobear
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73 ✭✭


    My VLC player has suddenly stopped working. I can hear audio fine but there's no picture.

    I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling.
    I've gone in and played with the audio settings in preferences (I changed them back afterwards).
    I even tried installing an older version of vlc.
    Nothing works.

    I can only imagine that something other than vlc that is causing this problem, some windows setting (I'm running vista).
    I also have the same problem with wmp.

    Any ideas?


Comments

  • #2
    johndoe99
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,882 ✭✭✭johndoe99


    I had a similar issue about 3 years back, my first thought was a codec, but VLC comes with a vast amount of them. Did you install/uninstall any other software during the time this problem began? A system restore might work.

    System Restore:
    http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tutorials/tutorial143.html


  • #3
    Voodu Child
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,706 ✭✭✭Voodu Child


    VLC doesnt use external codecs or splitters by default so there it should not be a codec issue.

    First reset all preferences. (there is a button for it in the preferences).

    Then try turning off video acceleration. (preferences > video > accelerated video output).

    Remember that VLC needs to be restarted in order for some changes to take effect.

    Also I would check your graphics driver properties, some GPUs have controls for video colour/gamma/etc. Again, reset preferences and also see if there is any updates available.


  • #4
    bobobear
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73 ✭✭bobobear


    Thanks for the replies.

    I had tried to do a system restore, but for some reason my computer doesn't have any save points registered. I tried to set them up but it's telling me that the function has been disabled by a group administrator. It's my personal computer, not a work one, so I am the administrator. Not really sure why that isn't working.

    I tried resetting the preferences in vlc, and turning off video acceleration. Restarted both times (one time it auto-set itself to Japanese, weird). No joy.

    I'm not too sure how to reset the graphics driver properties though.

    Another weird thing, when I restarted vlc, windows told me that it had changed the colour scheme of windows to windows basic because something wasn't compatible. Strange.


  • #5
    Korvanica
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,992 ✭✭✭Korvanica


    Probably an obvious question but did you try a number of video files?

    To make sure its not just that one video?


  • #6
    smokedeels
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,883 ✭✭✭smokedeels


    http://kmplayer.en.softonic.com/ - just as good if surrender is an option


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  • #7
    Voodu Child
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,706 ✭✭✭Voodu Child


    bobobear wrote: »

    I'm not too sure how to reset the graphics driver properties though.

    Right-click a blank area of the desktop and one of the options should be a graphics control panel. The options and layout will depend on whether you have an Intel card, or Nvidia, or ATI, but they all should have a way of going back to the default settings.


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