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I tried the overnight builds and none of them work on my pc. I get errors when I open up preferences and all the options are blank, nothing is there to select default. Not even the drop down is there at all.

My friend solved it that way: Uninstalled v0.8.5 he was still using, Installed latest v0.8.6a release, Use DirectX Video Output as the default video output module. Hope this might help some of you. This works and doesn't work at the same time. The video stays at one size no matter what. So if u dra...

In version 0.8.6a use OpenGL at video-output.
So my "aero-glass" works in VLC media player and I can see the video.

try it!

I am using Vista RC1 build 5600 with Geforce FX 5700 LE
and it works fine so far.

This didn't work for me. I am using Vista Ultimate x64 RTM build 6000.

I have the ame issue with Vista.

I trried disabling overlay as posted above. Still doesn't work.

No video with Vsta. I tried changing the output type in preferences, but still just gives a black screen and just plays audio.

I have the same problem. I'm using Vista Final RTM. No video on divx/xvid, mpeg, wmv, iso files, anything. Audio plays fine though. Just have a black screen. VLC adjusts the screen as if a picture is to be played but it is black with just audio. On the DVD images I try to watch it shows the menus fi...