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VLC player worked fine and i used it for all vids. suddenly since today, i am not able to open vlc.

If i try to open a vid with vlc nothing happens. same when i try to open the vlc player: nothing happens. i can not open it.

any suggestions what to do?

Please help me, cause i really liked vlc player

yours

strizie

p.s. i already installed new. but i cannot open vlc player still

i got the same problem
started when i installed 0.8.2

try to remove it and then reinstall. worked for me

I already deleted and reinstalled. Still the same: it does not work. But the strange thing is. it worked for weeks and suddenly it didn´t any more.

Any suggestions what to do?

Strizie

Delete your preferences (they aren't deleted when uninstalling). Have a look at the FAQ for the specific location on your OS.

I have no clue what happened but freaking VLC is only giving me audio and no video. their is a grey screen and that's it.... maybe I did something with the registry... I used jv reg cleaner but after it messed up some other program from loading at start up I restored the registry and rebooted... everything seemed fine and I have no clue why the vlc is only giving me data... I restored the registry back... regardless I uninstalled rebooted and installed and nothing and attempted to reinstall several times.. each of course deleting the preference... but maybe I need some registry editing and I will try to do that.. but man this sucks

I get a grey screen, too. blargh

I found a possible solution on the FAQ page here : http://www.videolan.org/support/bug-reporting.html

The Windows version of VLC has an entry in the Start Menu that completely resets your VLC setup. It is called: "Reset VLC defaults and quit."
(Uninstalling VLC does not remove it's old settings.)
Double check that your issue still exists.

Doing this fixed my streaming "run-on at close" problem & also fixed an intermittent hotkey issue I had.