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My computer only had the one account, so I created a new one and confirmed VLC played videos without an issue - this indicated the issue was profile related. After uninstalling it (again), I searched through HKEY_CURRENT_USER in the registry for references to "VLC" and deleted them. I rest...

Tried playing the "clock.avi" file and had the same issue. It displays the first frame of the clip and won't respond.

So that still did not work. The issue appears to be how VLC is (or is not) interacting with Windows. For example, clicking on the action buttons (stop, pause, volume) when a video is loaded do not do anything (they do light up), but app buttons (full screen) do work. I have tried several videos - al...

I tried this but unfortunately it did not help;also, when I uninstalled/reinstalled VLC I selected this option as well. The really confusing part about this is that, as far as I can tell, nothing has changed with my computer's setup.

Starting a few days ago, VLC stopped playing videos which it had been playing fine previously. I have tried all the recommended steps but none worked - changing the video output setting (selected each option), uninstalling & reinstalling VLC, checking for driver updates. I found one update from ...