vlc media player

If you are using VLC media Player on Windows Vista, you might get it not working. It faces a directX video output problem and hence you can’t enjoy your favourite videos on your desktop. You might get pop ups saying about this directX video output problem. Many people remove or uninstall applications when they get errors. But we can always change some default settings in VLC media player to avoid these type of problems. Let’s learn how to fix this problem.

How to run VLC media player on Windows vista properly:

1. Open VLC media Player and navigate to Settings >> Preferences



2. Select the Video menu and click on Output Modules
3. Check the Advanced Options box (Now you can see Video Output Module getting activated)
4. On the right hand side menu list, select DirectX Video Output



5. Click on Save and restart VLC Media Player.

VLC media player is one of the most popular video players. It supports most video formats and this makes it different from other video players like Windows media player, Real Player, Quicktime Player etc. If you have not heard about VLC media player before, consider downloading it and try.

Download VLC Media Player.

Always remember to upgrade all your applications to it’s latest version. Latest version comes with a lots of patches and error free. You may like to set VLC media player to auto-upgrade itself. Here is the auto update checker for all installed softwares.

If you are still having any problems with VLC media player either on Vista or on any other platform, use the comments section to ask me.

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