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Just in case someone hasn't noticed yet and is viewing this thread: VLC 3.0.2 and 3.0.3 are (and hopefully all later versions will be) availlable as .msi.
See here: https://get.videolan.org/vlc/last/win64/ + https://get.videolan.org/vlc/last/win32/ .

You should create a new ticket on the VLC Trac with the link to your file and to this thread.

Thanks for testing it! I've created the ticket #20175: https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/20175

Finally, here's the testfile: https://cdn.fgmartens.org/videofiles/MY_File_final.avi

Best,
Confix

I'll try to upload it. Unfortunately, it's a video a colleague made, so I have to ask for a test video which won't be used afterwards (licence problems) and doensn't contain any sensitive information. It will probably need some days to get that.

The current build is 3.0.1 and you may try 3.0.2 nightly builds which also have lots of fixes.

I've tried both, still same problem.

I've uninstalled VLC completely and installed the nightly, still black screen.

How I usually install it? With a batch script: However, now I installed it manually.

In 3.0.0 and 3.0.1 on Windows 7 x64 I had problems playing a .avi with codec "Codec: MPEG-4 Video (FMP4)". According to the metadata, the software used to create the video was Lavf57.20.100. There was no error, the video plays and VLC even resized the window to match the resolution of the ...