How to Make VLC Player to Work in Vista?

By Mr.Byte • April 25, 2007

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VLC player has been ranked as the most supportive software to play any audio or video files. But due to incompatibility issues, some file extensions may not play in VLC when you are trying in Windows Vista. As far as playing .flv format and converting it to .wmv or .avi format, it works in Vista (or at least it worked for me without any tweaking. I used the version 0.8.6b). But you may face some issues if you try to play some rare video extension types.

VLC Player

Under such case, How to use VLC Player in Vista?

Changing some default settings in the VLC Player does the entire trick. Try doing the following steps:

Step 1: In the VLC Player, Click Settings -> Preferences

VLC Preferences

Step 2: Expand the Video option and Click ‘Output Modules‘
Step 3: select the advanced options by checking.
Step 4: This will activate ‘Video Output Module‘.
Step 5: From the drop down menu, try using either ‘DirectX Video Output‘ or ‘Windows GDI Video Output‘.

Video Preferences

If these options don’t work for you, try Dummy Video Output Function or others.

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26 Responses to “How to Make VLC Player to Work in Vista?”

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April 25, 2007 at 6:52 pm | Permalink

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Nirmal
April 26, 2007 at 1:00 pm | Permalink

Nice tip. Stumbled!
Madhur Kapoor
April 26, 2007 at 4:58 pm | Permalink

So far VLC has played every file for me including FLV . But who knows what might happen in the future .
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April 29, 2007 at 11:54 am | Permalink

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Thilak
April 29, 2007 at 4:57 pm | Permalink

VLC has been my favorite, but never tried Vista. I’m yet to receive my free Windows Vista Media
ryan p
May 28, 2007 at 12:43 pm | Permalink

Thanks a lot for this tip it came in very helpful!!. Just brought meself a new laptop with an OS of Vista and what a nightmare it is getting all my old programs to work on this new OS. i use VLC player a lot and this thread came in very handy indeed thatk you lots and lots.
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July 9, 2007 at 6:40 am | Permalink

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john
July 15, 2007 at 4:59 pm | Permalink

thanks mate
sameer
August 12, 2007 at 11:23 pm | Permalink

i tried all of these options, but its not working for me?
Cher
September 27, 2007 at 2:47 am | Permalink

VLC seems to have been working fine for me as in sound and picture…BUT everytime i watch a video on it, it completely shut down my computer. The picture freezes and nothing seems to wanna work at all. Is anyone else having this problem? Or does anyone know what this might be caused from and how i might i fix it?
Diwas
October 24, 2007 at 4:06 am | Permalink

thanks fren for very useful information
bob
October 28, 2007 at 2:42 am | Permalink

thanks bro =]
Gerry
November 17, 2007 at 10:03 pm | Permalink

Cheers mate. This solved my problem
Ahmed Farah
December 9, 2007 at 11:13 pm | Permalink

Thanks alot mate. I’ve been trying to fix this problem for some time now,
Martin
May 16, 2008 at 12:11 am | Permalink

Thanks that worked! Buty it is pretty bad quality now after i changed the video output settings. But it’s better than black screen. thanks
Michael
May 28, 2008 at 8:57 pm | Permalink

Thank you so much for useful tips. I tried it and its perfectly works for window vista even i thought in the first place wont work but it did. Now i can enjoy watching any movies or listen to music.
nitinha5
July 4, 2008 at 9:42 am | Permalink

Hi,

I m having problems working with VLC,i have XP and when i try to play a video that stop in 2 in 2 seconds what is quite annoying,any tips please……
ben
July 29, 2008 at 8:16 pm | Permalink

hi guys, i downloaded the program on vista, but the program looks diffrent than yours, i mean the tool bar doesnt have File, it has Media instead of File. Wold you please help me and let me know why mine is diffrent than anyone else!
joona
September 2, 2008 at 12:13 pm | Permalink

Vlc play absolutely does not works on my vista
thabani
October 6, 2008 at 7:40 am | Permalink

thanks make worked one time
Shravanti Das
October 13, 2008 at 4:40 am | Permalink

i have a problem in playing vlc it is that whenever i press control up the volume becomes full and control down the volume becomes zero…please suggest a solution to correct it…
G Web
November 7, 2008 at 4:07 am | Permalink

I didn’t even know that VLC didn’t work properly on Vista, that’s why I’m never chanding from XP to Vista. There’s so much disadvantages usnig Vista
CrazyGuy64
November 7, 2008 at 3:32 pm | Permalink

all you have to do is right click on the shortcut in the “All Programs” menu and then click “Run as Administrator” and it should work perfectly. i’ve tried it and it works.
kenyangirl
March 17, 2009 at 1:53 am | Permalink

thank you very very much
ram
June 8, 2009 at 12:13 pm | Permalink

hi friends can any help me. in my lap which has vista home, the .avi files struck while playing. can any one advice me what to do.
superfly
October 7, 2009 at 11:15 am | Permalink

Thanks a lot , i put it on direct x output and now the quality is great strange that vlc doesn’t use that as default setting , any way again thanks!!