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I'm trying to get a 'dark theme' in VLC, but the problem is all these skins I've tried do a LOT more than just change the background color. Many of them disable video and make it into an audio only player. Still others don't display Japanese text in the playlist. Is there a skin that just changes th...

I rotated through a bunch of the video output options and found one that consistently works: open GL. I was able to write 4 out of 4 frames in a row without green screen. Thank you.

I upgraded from 3.0.4 to 3.0.6 and the problem persists.

Update to the latest version, 3.0.18 as of today.

I just checked and the version I am currently updated to is 3.0.18

When I grab a snapshot of a paused video, usually I'll get one good frame written to disc. Subsequent frames will appear to be grabbed normally (the thumbnail in the upper left of the VLC screen looks fine) but the file written to disc is a green frame. If I keep clicking the the grab (camera) icon ...

I did all of those things, and there were no instances of VLC running in Task Manager (at least visible ones). But I DID find the cause. It was OBS (Open Broadcaster Software), which was running in the background. It has a VLC video source. When I shut down OBS I was finally able to install the upda...

I see almost a year later and this problem has not been resolved. I just tried to update my version 3.0.4 to the latest, and get the error as well. Cryptographic service is running. I gave up on using automatic update and tried a manual download next. However, when I try to install it manually, I ge...

This used to work full screen to my 4K projector but today I tried to play some DCI 4K footage out to the projector and it's only displaying a small rectangle in the upper left corner of the projector screen. The only way to get near full screen is to drag the VLC window to the projector display and...

I discovered that the O/S is the major factor in this instance. Doing nothing more than changing from Windows 7 to Windows 10 on that higher end machine made the difference between no playback and effortless playback.

Yes. A GTX1080Ti.

I guess that explains why it can play 4K HEVC files now. I'm still perturbed at why it stutters when I play full screen to the 4K projector, but not full screen to the 4K LCD monitor. The difference is dramatic, I found out in side by side tests. I also tried setting both projector and monitor to th...

I did some more testing today and found something interesting: When I play full screen to my LG 31MU97-B at 4096x2160, playback is smooth. When I select the Sony VPL VW765ES projector as output for full screen at the same resolution, I have trouble playing without stutters every few seconds. And aga...

UPDATE: Rebuilt the OS environment to Windows 10 Pro on the dual Xeon and HEVC playback runs almost as smooth as on the i7 machine.

I found out what the determining factor is: the operating system. Once I rebuilt the workstation with the 1080Ti with Windows 10 Pro, h.265 playback became possible.

I didn't know that VLC could do GPU decoding. How do I enable that?

I'm noticing a problem playing MP4 files on my high end dual Xeon workstation. My midrange i7 machine can play them much better, but not totally free of stutters/dropped frames either. Workstation specs: Dual Xeon E5-2667 CPUs 128GB RAM GTX1080Ti All SSD drives Windows 10 Pro The problem is worse af...

If by 'restarting' you mean the entire VLC window flickers at about 15 times a second, I also have that problem, but started with v 3.0.4 on Windows 10.

On earlier versions of VLC, I've always been able to play the MXF files that my Sony FS7 generates. I recently migrated my NLE to Windows 10 from Windows 7, and installed the latest VLC as of February 2019. But I'm having a problem playing OP1a MXF files. VLC doesn't display an error message, but th...

That seems counter intuitive. Why would a GTX1060 completely outperform a GTX1080Ti by such a wide margin?

I wonder why VLC has such radically different performance on two different machines. Machine #1 is a Asus Z390-A with i7-9700K, MSI GTX1060, running Windows 10 Pro. Cost: $1500 Maching #2 is a Supermicro X10DRi with dual Xeon E5-2667, MSI GTX1080Ti, running Windows 7 Pro. Cost $15,000 Machine #1, ru...

I have a diverse experience with 3.0.4.. I installed it on a new PC build whose specs are: i7-9770K 32GB RAM GTX1060 I was stunned to see this version of VLC play HEVC 4K video, smoothly with no sign of strain. CPU usage 1%, GPU, 38% peak. Given that my other machine, a $15,000 NLE with: dual Xeon E...

I set the verbosity to 2 and then saved the log file and played an .m4v clip, but the resulting log file was only 1kb and when I open it in Notepad, I see nothing. Is it possible it's all >ASCII 127 characters and can't be viewed in Notepad?

Yes. Same result.

I have tried turning off acceleration, overlays, also tried each of the harware methods, with the same result each time. I suppose it must be the Windows 7 video driver for my GeForce 8800GTX.

I'm running VLC 2.0.5 and I've got a problem that's been evading solutions. Since moving to Windows 7 64-bit, I find that VLC Media Player won't play full HD video files that I rendered in Adobe Premiere/Media Encoder. It will only play m2v files in SD, but not m4V files in 1080P. Instead of playbac...