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Old 26-11-2007   #6 (permalink)
cybmole
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Re: VLC Media player stopped working

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Originally Posted by gshadoan View Post
yeah, it was the weirdest thing. DVD's still played fine, with both VLC and MS media player (the only 2 I have on my machine), and the files I was playing were ripped by DVDFab onto an external hard disk, just in there own directorys. I would point the VLC to open a dir, and it played fine. Then it stopped working, at some point, I am now sure it was a combonation, of two things. A new video card, and an older version of VLC. I updated the video drivers, off the Dell website, and updated the version of VLC I was using, and it now works fine. Thanks for your suggestions.

Greg
sometimes it's better to just fix it & move on, rather that try to explain the original glitch. I did something to my PC a few months back & suddenly all of my AVI files were playing back upside down!
All that I "think" I did was to trial a different DVD player or ripper & then uninstall it & splat - couldn't watch anything.
But system restore cured it, thankfully which was a better outcome than happing to flip the monitor thru 180%
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