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VLC won't play videos; shuttles between fullscreen and small screen with psychotic flickering

Posted: 23 Oct 2021 03:46
by FrankY5206
For the last two days, I've not been able to play any video file on VLC. It flickers between full-screen and reduced screen size in a psychotic strobing effect.

I tried re-setting Preferences, but it did nothing to help.

It will not play audio files any longer, either. It plays them, but without sound, even though my computer's sound is working otherwise.

Should I just uninstall/reinstall, or is this some bug that's crept up into the latest version?

Thanks. I'm running the latest build of Windows 10 on a PC.

Re: VLC won't play videos; shuttles between fullscreen and small screen with psychotic flickering

Posted: 23 Oct 2021 09:59
by Lotesdelere
Do a full reset of the preferences (the manual way) and try again:
https://wiki.videolan.org/VSG:ResetPrefs

Re: VLC won't play videos; shuttles between fullscreen and small screen with psychotic flickering

Posted: 23 Oct 2021 18:14
by FrankY5206
Deleting the APPDATA file did the trick. There were 2 GB of material in that folder. Thank you so much for your suggestion, Lotesdelere!