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Disabling the Overlay within VLC places a slight bit more weight on your CPU and is generally a problem with your Video drivers, if you are using VLC on a main monitor and not a secondary monitor. On a secondary monitor many video cards do not support the use of video acceleration so the overlay mu...

Disabling the Overlay within VLC places a slight bit more weight on your CPU and is generally a problem with your Video drivers, if you are using VLC on a main monitor and not a secondary monitor. On a secondary monitor many video cards do not support the use of video acceleration so the overlay mu...

Have you tried disabling Overlay video output from VLC? Or changed to Windows GDI output? Are you using fast user switching?

that's it !
without overlay I can see my video!
Thank you very much !!!

In fact, only the administrator account can see video on vlc. If I add my personal account into the administrators group, still no video for me
My config :
Xp SP2 Fr
Toshiba M60-175 (Ati Radeon X600 SE)

All other players ork fine .

Thanks

Hi, I noticed this pb in another topic but my labtop symptoms are quite diferents. As I wrote in title, if I use vlc as a standard windows user, no-video, grey screen BUT everything is ok if I use it with administrative rights. VLC still do not show video even if I run it as administrator in my stan...