How Do You Troubleshoot A VLC Media Player?
VLC Media Player, free for download at Videolan.org, is a powerful video player and transcoder (converter), capable of capturing and exporting streaming video, as well as converting to and from a number of audio and video formats. There are several ways to troubleshoot your VLC Player, depending on the problem. It may be a simple problem–as easy as quitting and restarting VLC–or a more advanced problem involving your video card. Other common playback problems with VLC may be due to your Preference settings or from trying to play a codec that is not currently installed in your player. If you have a problem you cannot fix by using any of the means here or at VideoLan.org, you can report it to VideoLan. Fixing VLC ‘Bugs’ Step 1 Reset your Preference settings under the “General” tab, quit VLC and restart. Step 2 Try deleting VLC’s configuration file, which is located in your user directory. For Windows XP users, VLC can be found in your C-Drive: C:\Documents and Settings\%username%\Appli