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.

WHY NOT SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER?

Get great content like this delivered to your inbox!

It's free, convenient, and delivered right to your inbox! We do not spam and we will not share your address. Period!