How To Fix Black Screen In VLC

By Terry Hollett / 11/28/2019 / 1 Comment / How-To

I decided to watch some videos only to end up with no video and a black screen in VLC, but the sound was working. The videos worked in other media players.

After trying various solutions online, I found one that works.

Fixing The Black Screen

In VLC, go to Tools, then Preferences, or use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + P. Click on the Input/Codecs icon at the top. In the line that says Hardware-accelerated decoding, set it to Disable, then click on Save. I don’t know why it went wrong, but that’s how I got it to work.

—

About The Author

Terry Hollett

Terry is a self-taught computer aficionado, who after being exposed to Windows 3.1 in the early 1990's devoured every book and magazine on the subject he could get his hands on. A published author with over 20 years' experience building and servicing computers for friends and family he started his first website in 2002 at Hit Any Key.

1 thought on “How To Fix Black Screen In VLC”

Firman
09/26/2021 at 8:28 am
Thank you for the tips. I just got panic when my VLC player didn’t shown a video but just the audio. Nice tips!!!

Comments are closed.