VLC Red Screen

15 April 2007

Are you getting a red screen while using VLC player in Windows Vista? I was, and here is what I did to fix it:

1. Launch VLC and open the Setting tab, click on Preferences.
Make sure the Advanced box is ticked in the bottom right corner.
2. Expand the Video Preference, expand Output modules and click on DirectX. Unclick the option “Use hardware YUV -> RGB conversions”. Click back on Output modules and on the drop down box, choose DirectX video output.
3. Save preferences. Restart VLC.

Source: VLC Forums

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4 Responses to “VLC Red Screen”

  1. maxleborgne Says:
    October 7th, 2007 at 9:05 pm

    Thanks a lot! you solve my problem.

  2. maxleborgne Says:
    October 7th, 2007 at 9:10 pm

    but when playing a video the monitor gets black half a second and aero is desactivated. When i close vlc it comes back to normal.

  3. ashbaugh Says:
    October 7th, 2007 at 9:21 pm

    I notice that with my aero also. Doesn’t bother me much.

  4. Kupo Says:
    February 18th, 2008 at 8:59 pm

    Brilliant, thank you!

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