Video Playback Issue
What issues are you experiencing with VLC video playback?
Lack of Video
VLC does not play video at all. Go!
If you have no video for some type of files only, then that means you have no codecs for this type.
Try changing video output and check another file.
If you have no video for some type of files or all of them, you can try to change the video ouput.
Go to Tools > Preferences > Video and in the Display section, try another Ouput.
Sometimes, you have to deactivate the Accelerated video output (Overlay) too.
You can also check against the non-supported codec.
Lack of Video or other issues on some filesVLC does not play video only on some files. Go!Poor Quality or Strange Video
VLC can partially play video, but its playback is distorted, of poor quality... Go!
Poor Quality or Strange Video
What are the problems with the playback?
Some video formats are incompatible with some versions of VLC.
From here on out, we will assume the file which VLC cannot play back is supported by your version of VLC.
Visual errors
Video output is black, white or garbled; or you see green, blue, or red lines on your video. Go!
Video is purple (a.k.a. the Smurf effect)
Why is my video purple in VLC? Go!
Video is distorted
The video runs but the picture is distorted. Go!
Video is good but...
Your video is too dark, choppy... Go!
VSG:Video:GoodBut
Video is choppy
VLC can partially play video, but its playback is choppy. Go!
Video is too dark
Video is appearing too dark on VLC. Go!
Video colors are washed out
This is a NVIDIA issue on Windows. Go!
Video displays first frames and black/grey only
Does not really play Go!
VSG:Video:Slow
Video displays first frames and black/grey only
This is the symptom of a slow decoding, and this is especially the case with high bitrate H264 or HEVC.
If you're using VLC < 3.0, you need turn on hardware acceleration. Preferences -> Input Codecs -> Hardware Acceleration.
Is your Graphic card able to accelerate decoding ?
For 4K H264
Quick Sync 4 (Intel Broadwell ~)
PureVideo HD 5 cards (Nvidia GT 520 ~)
UVD 5.0 cards (AMD Radeon R9 ~)
For HEVC
Quick Sync 5 (Intel Skylake ~)
PureVideo HD 7 cards (Nvidia GTX 950 ~, or GTX 750 SE)
UVD 6.0 cards (AMD Radeon Rx300 ~)
For HEVC 10bit
Quick Sync 6 (Intel Kaby Lake ~)
PureVideo HD 7 cards (Nvidia GTX 950 ~, or GTX 750 SE)
UVD 6.0 Fiji/Carrizo cards (AMD Radeon Rx400 ~)
All information per chip
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Quick_Sync_Video
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Video_Decoder
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia_PureVideo
How do I... Modify the video output?
How do I modify video output? Go!
Modify Video Output
(Redirected from VSG:Video:HowTo:ModifyVideoOutput)
This page describes how to modify your video output. Other "how to" pages
If you have no video for some type of files or all of them, you can try to change the video ouput.
Go to Tools > Preferences > Video and in the Display section, try another Ouput.
Sometimes, you have to deactivate the Accelerated video output (Overlay) too.
Adjust brightness or contrast?
How do I adjust brightness or contrast? Go!
VLC HowTo/Adjust image settings
(Redirected from VSG:Video:Contrast)
This page describes how to adjust image settings including brightness and contrast. Other "how to" pages
See also: Documentation:Video and Audio Filters
Contents
1 Graphical
1.1 Qt Interface
1.2 OS X Interface
2 Command-line
2.1 Permanent changes
Graphical
Graphical approaches are the easiest but also the most variable because you have to look in different places depending on your interface. What this approach will do is globally change the hue, brightness, contrast, saturation or gamma for every video you play in VLC, perhaps for color-correction purposes. If you want to play a single video with different image settings, you should look at the command-line approach.
Older versions of VLC required different steps (VLC versions <= 0.9.0 used wxWidgets Interface). Modern VLC installations for Windows and Linux use Qt, Mac installations use the OS X interface.
Qt Interface
In the menu bar, select "Tools" and then "Effects and Filters".
Select the "Video Effects" tab and then "Essential" subtab.
Tick the "Image adjust" checkbox and move the slider for the setting you
want to change.
Hue, Brightness, Contrast, Saturation, and Gamma may be adjusted.
Changes take effect immediately for every video.
OS X Interface
Go to the "Extended controls" panel.
Select the "Video" section and then "Adjust Image" subtab.
Tick the "Enable" checkbox and move the slider for the setting you want to
change.
Hue, Contrast, Brightness, Saturation, Gamma, Opaqueness may be adjusted.
Command-line
A command-line approach will run VLC with adjusted hue, brightness, contrast, saturation or gamma for one session (the adjustments will not be preserved later). To learn how to get a command-line, see command-line interface.
The module you will be working with is adjust. As given by vlc --module adjust:
--contrast
Image contrast (0-2)
--brightness
Image brightness (0-2)
--hue
Image hue (-180..180)
--saturation
Image saturation (0-3)
--gamma
Image gamma (0-10)
--brightness-threshold, --no-brightness-threshold
Brightness threshold
(default disabled)
The defaults are 1.0 for contrast and brightness, 0 for hue, 1.5 for saturation, 1 for gamma.
You can make a video (or still image) 10% brighter with:
vlc --video-filter adjust --brightness 1.1
and make a video (or still image) black-and-white with:
vlc --video-filter adjust --saturation 0
And this works too:
vlc --brightness 1.1
vlc --saturation 0
Permanent changes
You cannot save your preference for adjusted image settings with VLC (VLC doesn't seem to have any field that "remembers" your preferences).
You can, potentially, stream the video through a filter using the above method to an output file, and overwrite the original.
In other words, to make foo.ogv 10% brighter you adjust foo.ogv:
vlc --video-filter adjust --brightness 1.1 foo.ogv
And then save the result into foo.ogv.tmp (sorry, I don't have a command line for this), saving over foo.ogv.
Now when you play foo.ogv the video will be brighter.
Set file specific brightness or contrast?
How do I set file specific brightness or contrast? Go!
Set the default deinterlace method?
How do I set the default deinterlace method? Go!
Jump to certain time
Can I jump to certain time? Go!
Take a snapshot of a video
Take a screenshot of a running video. Go!
