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| − | Right now you will need to make a minor change in order to get VLC working under Windows Vista. Hopefully this problem will be fixed soon by VLC's developers, but this is not likely. | + | Right now you will need to make a minor change in order to get VLC Media Player working under Windows Vista. Hopefully this problem will be fixed soon by VLC's developers, but this is not likely. |
# Open VLC media player. | # Open VLC media player. | ||
# Click on Settings and select Preferences… . | # Click on Settings and select Preferences… . | ||
| − | # Expand Video and click on Output modules. | + | # Expand Video and click on Output modules. Don't expand Output modules, just click on it. |
# Check Advanced options in the lower right corner. | # Check Advanced options in the lower right corner. | ||
# Set Video output module to either "DirectX", "OpenGL" or "Windows GDI" | # Set Video output module to either "DirectX", "OpenGL" or "Windows GDI" | ||
Latest revision as of 22:22, 11 May 2007
Right now you will need to make a minor change in order to get VLC Media Player working under Windows Vista. Hopefully this problem will be fixed soon by VLC's developers, but this is not likely.
- Open VLC media player.
- Click on Settings and select Preferences… .
- Expand Video and click on Output modules. Don't expand Output modules, just click on it.
- Check Advanced options in the lower right corner.
- Set Video output module to either "DirectX", "OpenGL" or "Windows GDI"
(instructions shamelessly copied from Computer Bits Blog)
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