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About half the time when I open a video with VLC, the window resizes itself and the sound starts playing but the display is just black and the entire window is frozen. I can't even close it. When the image finally appears, the time display jumps to 10 seconds, then it works normally.

It's seems to be hit or miss the first time I open a video, but if I close VLC and open another video right away, it happens 100% of the time.

When I open the same videos with Media Player Classic, there's a delay before the video starts, however the video and audio start at the same time and they both start from the beginning. Also, the window isn't frozen like VLC.

It sounds like DirectX is having trouble initializing the display. Try updating your Video drivers and DirectX runtime.

It sounds like DirectX is having trouble initializing the display. Try updating your Video drivers and DirectX runtime.

I have DirectX 9c installed. Also, my video card drivers are the latest ones you can possibly get for Windows 98SE. In fact, the Nvidia site only lists 81.98, but I have 82.16, downloaded directly off the XFXForce site before they reverted back to one of the 77.xx versions. They did this because I complained that none of the 8x.xx versions would uninstall properly under 98 without using third-party software.

Of course many old games, and at least one emulator don't work properly with this particular driver version, but I keep it installed just for occasions such as this where I'm told to install the latest driver.