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Question

VLC White Bars

Sep 25, 2012 8:00AM PDT

I have vertical white bars all over my vlc media player and really don't know what to do about it. Btw, I have a Windows XP. How do I fix this?

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First you would think
Sep 26, 2012 1:28AM PDT

First you would think about what changed since it worked. You elected not to reveal machine or other details so you may be on your own here.
Bob

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Correct!
Sep 26, 2012 7:22AM PDT

Hi fakelakerpants,

This is a discussion board.

To have a good discussion, the more details, the better.

Otherwise, even the most seasoned, experienced, and the best, IT people will have no idea what you are talking about. It's a two-way street here. Too many causes and too few clues.

So, let's have a discussion the proper way.

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Sorry about that
Sep 28, 2012 1:48PM PDT

First of all, Thank you both for the reply to my post.

Sorry about the bad info. I've never done this discussion forum thing before. Anyways, I just recently installed it on my external hard drive and there are these white vertical bars over the vlc player when I played a video. The video itself plays fine though. If you ask me questions about the issue it might be easier for me to give you more detail. Otherwise i don't really know what to tell you about it.<span id="INSERTION_MARKER">

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Sometimes
Sep 28, 2012 7:37PM PDT

a program does not like to be installed in other places than the usual place: such as C:\Program Files\VLC Player.

Uninstall with the external drive connected, then install in the default location on the C:\ drive.

You can also use a site like mediafire.com (http://www.mediafire.com/) to post a screencapture of the video player problem if you wish so we can see it.

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Problem Solved
Oct 3, 2012 2:09AM PDT

I never figured out exactly why the white lines were all ove the screen, but I took your advice and installed VLC on the computer and it worked well. I actually coppied it from there on to my external hd and it worked just the same. Thanks a lot for your help! I appreciate it!