Help Needed! Audio but no Video with VLC

[MoadDib]

I'm having a very strange problem with my VLC player.

Just today, it stopped showing video. When a video file is loaded, it will play the audio for it but only show a black window where the video should be. Video files play just fine in Windows Media Player and other programs. This seems to only be happening in VLC.

I have updated, re-installed VLC and all video codecs, cleared preferences and cache, and generally done everything I can think of to deal with this problem but the issue still persists.

If anyone has any ideas or has encountered this problem themselves please offer any help you can.

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Disable the video overlay from the preferences panel. Video will be slow(er) though.

[MoadDib]

Thanks, that seems to have solved the big problem.

Now for some reason, it simply will not show a video window for a couple of video files. This is of course much better than just getting a giant black video window on ALL files, but any ideas what might be causing this to happen to just a few videos?

[Fresher]

I am having the same problem. I can play some mp4 files but not others. the only diference I can find is if you go into view >> Stream and Media Info >> Advanced information tab and look at the Stream info, the ones that play have video(mp4v codec) as stream 0 and audio(mp4a codec) as stream 1 and with the ones that dont play the streams are the other way around.

But I did manage to make it show up by going to Settings >> Extended GUI and then under Video tab click Enable

Hope this helps!