VLC Video Flickering on Windows 10

[Ghillie]

Hey all.

I've just bought a new PC and I'm having some issues with VLC playback. Just about anything I try to play flickers my entire screen black. The video comes back for sometimes 20 seconds sometimes 2 seconds and flickers black again.

I never had this issue previously and I'm not quite sure why I'm having it now. I have the latest drivers and the latest version of VLC. RTX 2070 and an I7 9700KF

I can get the video to play fine on Windows GDI Video Output but everything else makes the screen flicker.

I should add this only happens when the video is in fullscreen. Watching with the window maximised the video plays just fine. I'm not sure if this is a hardware issue or VLC issue but any help solving this would be much appreciated.

main debug: VoutDisplayEvent 'mouse button' 0 t=8
main debug: VoutDisplayEvent 'mouse button' 0 t=9
main debug: VoutDisplayEvent 'double click'
qt debug: Qt: Fullscreen state changed
qt debug: Qt: Entering Fullscreen
main debug: VoutDisplayEvent 'fullscreen' 1
main debug: resized to 2560x1440
main debug: VoutDisplayEvent 'resize' 2560x1440
main debug: VoutDisplayEvent 'resize' 2560x1440
direct3d11 debug: Detected size change 2560x1440
main debug: auto hiding mouse cursor
main debug: auto hiding mouse cursor
main debug: VoutDisplayEvent 'mouse button' 0 t=8
main debug: VoutDisplayEvent 'mouse button' 0 t=9
main debug: VoutDisplayEvent 'double click'
qt debug: Qt: Fullscreen state changed
qt debug: Qt: Quitting Fullscreen
main debug: VoutDisplayEvent 'fullscreen' 0
main debug: resized to 2560x1419
main debug: VoutDisplayEvent 'resize' 2560x1419
main debug: resized to 2560x1385
main debug: VoutDisplayEvent 'resize' 2560x1385
main debug: resized to 2560x1367
main debug: VoutDisplayEvent 'resize' 2560x1367
main debug: resized to 2544x1328
main debug: VoutDisplayEvent 'resize' 2544x1328
main debug: VoutDisplayEvent 'resize' 2544x1328
direct3d11 debug: Detected size change 2360x1328
main debug: resized to 2560x1314
main debug: VoutDisplayEvent 'resize' 2560x1314
main debug: VoutDisplayEvent 'resize' 2560x1314
direct3d11 debug: Detected size change 2336x1314
main debug: auto hiding mouse cursor
main debug: auto hiding mouse cursor
main debug: VoutDisplayEvent 'mouse button' 0 t=8
main debug: VoutDisplayEvent 'mouse button' 0 t=9
main debug: VoutDisplayEvent 'mouse button' 0 t=8
main debug: VoutDisplayEvent 'mouse button' 0 t=9
main debug: VoutDisplayEvent 'double click'
qt debug: Qt: Fullscreen state changed
main debug: VoutDisplayEvent 'fullscreen' 1
qt debug: Qt: Entering Fullscreen
main debug: resized to 2560x1440
main debug: VoutDisplayEvent 'resize' 2560x1440
main debug: VoutDisplayEvent 'resize' 2560x1440
direct3d11 debug: Detected size change 2560x1440
main debug: auto hiding mouse cursor
main debug: discarded audio buffer
mmdevice debug: state changed: 0
wasapi debug: reset
mkv debug: seek request to 36.85%
main debug: Received first picture
main error: Timestamp conversion failed for 100310001: no reference clock
main error: Could not convert timestamp 0 for FFmpeg
mkv debug: seek: preroll{ track: 1, pts: 1349350000, fpos: 446428770 skip: 446428770}
mkv debug: seek: preroll{ track: 2, pts: 1350101000, fpos: 446646754 skip: 446646754}
mkv debug: seek: preroll{ req: 1350172556, start-pts: 1349350001, start-fpos: 446428770}
main debug: Buffering 0%
main debug: Buffering 1%
main debug: Buffering 2%
main debug: Buffering 3%
main debug: Buffering 4%
main debug: Buffering 5%
main debug: Buffering 6%
main debug: Buffering 7%
avcodec debug: available hardware decoder output format 119 (cuda)
avcodec debug: available hardware decoder output format 53 (dxva2_vld)
avcodec debug: available hardware decoder output format 118 (d3d11va_vld)
main debug: Buffering 8%
avcodec debug: available hardware decoder output format 174 (d3d11)
avcodec debug: available software decoder output format 0 (yuv420p)
main debug: Buffering 9%
avcodec debug: reusing decoder output format 0
main debug: Stream buffering done (5838 ms in 19 ms)
main debug: end of video preroll
main debug: Decoder wait done in 9 ms
mmdevice debug: state changed: 1
main debug: auto hiding mouse cursor
main debug: auto hiding mouse cursor
main debug: VoutDisplayEvent 'mouse button' 0 t=8
main debug: VoutDisplayEvent 'mouse button' 0 t=9
main debug: VoutDisplayEvent 'double click'
qt debug: Qt: Fullscreen state changed
qt debug: Qt: Quitting Fullscreen
main debug: VoutDisplayEvent 'fullscreen' 0
main debug: resized to 2560x1419
main debug: VoutDisplayEvent 'resize' 2560x1419
main debug: resized to 2560x1385
main debug: VoutDisplayEvent 'resize' 2560x1385
main debug: resized to 2560x1367
main debug: VoutDisplayEvent 'resize' 2560x1367
main debug: resized to 2544x1328
main debug: VoutDisplayEvent 'resize' 2544x1328
main debug: resized to 2560x1314
main debug: VoutDisplayEvent 'resize' 2560x1314
main debug: VoutDisplayEvent 'resize' 2560x1314
direct3d11 debug: Detected size change 2336x1314

[Ghillie]

Had to remove some of the useless debug info to make the post work. but thats all i get in my log which makes me feel like it might be a hardware issue. That i have no idea how to fix

[Ghillie]

anyone?

[Teigh]

Hey all.

My pc uses Windows 10 and my vlc player literally doesn't have a menu. I searched for ways that'll help me get the menu to appear but found hence I ended up here. And I also need help with videos that don't play. I tried watching a series episode; the video ends up freezing on the same scene but the sound continues playing without hassles. The video is an mkv file. What can I do?

[Teigh]

I don't know which vlc version I'm using but when I right-click, the only thing that appears is "play/pause, stop, audio, video and playback" only. The settings tab is also not so helpful.