A couple of weeks ago, I upgraded Windows 10 Pro to the latest 1903 build. I do not remember, but there might have been a VLC update to the 64 Bit version I was using around the same time. I'm sure, though, soon after one of the 2, while watching video ... and that's streaming video ... I noticed the player screen turning green. That did not happen when using the MPC- Home cinema player I was mostly using, then.
I did a search online and it was recommended that one goes to Input/Codecs settings and disables Hardware-accelerated decoding. This seemed to solve the problem, but left me wondering why I had never needed this before on any PC I use, even in the period just before this, although I use VLC relatively frequently.
Then in the last couple of days, the PC has suddenly frozen 2, 3 times for no apparent reason, only being usable after forcing a shutdown + new start, as I did not expect it to "wake up" and react to a range of keyboard commands. The first time, there were a number of programs running, including the VLC player.
Yesterday though, it was after a power up with only the VLC player running, as I was watching a CNN live stream.
This is quite annoying and disruptive. It made me suspect the VLC was behind this issue. I have not had this for probably over a year.
Some facts:
- My Samsung notebook has an AMD A8-4500M APU HD graphics CPU
- 8GB RAM, AMD Radeon HD 7640G graphic card
- Windows 10 Pro, all available Windows updates and of all other software installed. Same to drivers, including graphic card from AMD.
- I have no memory-related or similar issues.
So my questions:
- What could have caused the green screen issue and could it now been solved? Could it be it was triggered by Upgrade to Win 10 1903 Build and a subsequent update of Windows or VLC solved it?
- What could be behind this absolutely random freezing and how can I solve it as it's very disruptive, as one has to force a shutdown, losing all open work, + wastes a lot of time before the power up is complete to continue working, etc? As said, this is a recent issue in the past week or so and has only happened with VLC playing streaming video and the last time it happened was after a fresh PC start and it was the only program running as I watched a CNN stream
Thank you in advance