Video off in VLC and Audio off in DivX

[indijay]

Hello folks,

I don't consider myself a noob, yet I have difficulties in figuring what the heck went wrong with my system after installation of quicktime alternative.

I usually use VLC to play all my video media files. I also have DivX player installed on my machine. After installation of quick time alternative (and Voddler), I started facing weird problem. If I play XviD video in VLC, no video is present, just black screen, audio is fine. If I play the same file in DivX player, video plays fine and no audio. I tried this with wide variety of files and the result is same.
I checked with GSpot and it shows that XviD as well as mp3 codecs are installed. I am not getting a clue what went wrong. Till these installations were performed, everything was fine.

I uninstalled all video softwares, codecs I could and reinstalled, same thing.

Any help is solving this issue is appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

[Baldrick]

quicktime alternative shouldn't cause any problem with VLC.

But if no video in VLC it's probably a video overlay / hardware acceleration problem. If you have dual monitors you might have to change the primary monitor. Google for overlay vlc for more tips.

[jagabo]

VLC -> Tools -> Preferences -> Video (button on left) -> Display (box) -> Output (pulldown)

Try the different options.