Vista and VLC Player

  • Thread starter Thread starter Riley Churchill
  • Start date Start date
R

Riley Churchill

Hi ,

If you use VLC Player on Windows Vista it takes away the aero effect.

I was wondering does anyone know how to either keep the aero effect with
vista ( im guessing you cant ),

or can anyone recomend another player that plays almost all movie extensions
like vlc does, and still keep aero effect?

Thanks,

Riley
 
im running VLC v0.8.5
aero running fine here. not played a video through it, but it
opens/closes fine with no loss of aero.

tim
 
Yes I have the new java,

And yes Tim, it does not loose aero UNTIL you play a video, then aero is
lost.

So...what could be causing this?
 
Tim,
Andre's correct; some applications need the new Java 6 to resolve that
Aero problem.
Tim & Andre,
Think this is the link that you're looking for.
http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/ea.jsp

Goes right to Java 6; and it's under :
Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 6 Release Candidate
The Java SE Runtime Environment (JRE) allows end-users to run Java
applications.

It may help

Jeff
:-)
 
Riley,

Some apps just aren't set up to run with Aero,
if you are running Java 6- not the Java 5 update 6;then
it's the application itself.

Jeff
 
Riley Churchill said:
Yes I have the new java,

And yes Tim, it does not loose aero UNTIL you play a video, then aero is
lost.

So...what could be causing this?
Click to expand...


This will be an effect that we will see with a lot of legacy video players.
I use VLC myself, but haven't got it installed on this Vista machine yet.

Any programs that use plian video overlay will cause Aero to switch of while
the app is in use. I've seen this happen when I am using DScaler.

New versions of VLC, etc, will have to start using VMR instead, which allows
more than one windows to use overlay (or something like that).

ss.
 
Andre Da Costa said:
That application might has some dependency on Java which has been known to
disable Glass if the latest version Java 6 SE is not installed. Try that
and see if it resolves the problem:
http://java.sun.com/javase/6/
Click to expand...


I have seen Aero being fixed in this way since the Java update. I didn't
realise why some of my apps, like ArchiCAD 10, started behaving properly
until now.

However, the problem with Aero and video apps is a seperate issue as I have
explained in my other post in this thread.

ss.
 
hi jeff

this is a question regarding VLC player. i have uede vlc player in win xp
and it worked fine now i have vist home premium and the vlc player does not
work. that is i can hear the sound but no video can be seen . pls help
 
U'll need to change preferences in VLC for video to work. Check under output
modules in video section it should be windows GDI output in place of
default.Save the changes and reopen vlc it'll work.

Thanks and regards,

Mohit
 
Back
Top