

Thankfully there are media players out there designed to play a wide variety of video, and one of the best is completely free (open-source in fact). It’s all very confusing, and can lead to an explosion of different media players finding themselves installed on your computer in order to watch video from a variety of different sources. The end result is a confusing mess where you can get one MP4 file to play on your computer, but not another – simply because they’ve been created using different codecs. I too have a Radeon HD card, runs flawlessly for me.Video’s a funny old thing: it’s not enough there’s no single standard for video playback, the situation is complicated by the fact video is effectively split into two parts: the “container” the file is placed in, identifiable by its three-letter file extensions like MOV, WMV or VOB, plus the “codecs” used to render the video. I normally make use of DirectDraw for everything else video related.

If I attempt to use Direct3D11 the program has a heart attack and flickers continuously, one has to shut the program down via the task manager. I can't get the proper contrast for an HDR file. I still have 3 nightly installed, I've gone into the advanced video settings to alter particular options to no avail.

Once I saw it running on Windows 7 computer. The Windows 7 support for VLC 4 has been added/fixed in September or so last year. Then the video is darker with better colours. The disabled " Use hardware YUV->RGB conversions" option under "DirectX (DirectDraw) video output" module in VLC 3 preferences fixes the "washed out colours" (black is not very black) issue for me (ATI RADEON) and then it works with "Direct3D9 video output"/"Automatic", too. I do not know what exactly you mean by "the washed out contrast situation". When I searched to find out what that microsoft update is.apparently it dates back to 2011 and Microsoft's website states this.*Insecure library loading could allow remote code execution*Ĭan anyone explain why a 2021 developed program would need such an old kb file?.and is that even the reason why the program will not appear on the screen? *Windows 7/2008 R2 or later (with KB2533623 installed)* is needed The exe shows up in the Task manager as running, I went into the programs folder and open the NEWS.txt file that is included.in there is this note that for windows 7 platform. That version WILL play the file but the HDR support isn't there to properly view the files vivid contrast.Īpparently 4 does support HDR.After installing 4 it doesn't want to start. I have installed a nightly because the stable 3.011 I've been using for some months doesn't support 4k HDR files. Before anyone flames me on my posting title I have tried to solve an issue with the nightly 4 build.
