How to Make VLC Player to Work in Vista?

December 21st, 2007
How to Make VLC Player to Work in Vista?

VLC player is my favorite media player not just because its a free, open source alternative to WMP or other alternatives, but due the fact that it supports almost all audio or video files out there. But the problem is that it doesn’t always work correctly on Windows Vista.

Normally you would face problem with some video extensions. But with some small tweaks, I’m sure it will work in most cases.

1:First up, open VLC Player, Click Settings -> Preferences

How to Make VLC Player to Work in Vista?
2: Now expand the Video option and Click ‘Output Modules
3: as you would see an advanced options check box, check it.
4: This will activate ‘Video Output Module‘.
5: From the drop down menu, either select ‘DirectX Video Output‘ or ‘Windows GDI Video Output‘. But Windows GDI Video OutPut seems to be the luckiest.

How to Make VLC Player to Work in Vista?

Well if any of these options don’t workout, try Dummy Video Output Function or others.

VLC media player

Pranjal




  1. December 22nd, 2007 at 14:39 | #1

    Pretty cool. will try out now

  2. Unknowen
    December 31st, 2007 at 23:51 | #2

    Thanks so much i was looking all over the internet for this!!!!

  3. January 1st, 2008 at 00:00 | #3

    always welcome.

  4. June 3rd, 2009 at 05:27 | #4

    What is the best media player?

  5. amazing , was really helpful
    July 17th, 2009 at 21:27 | #5

    amazing

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