VLC player in Vista

Site : http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/using-vlc-player-under-vista/
Download site : http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

Finally resolved the black screen in VLC player with this article.

1) Open VLC player
2) Click Settings > Preferences
3) Expand the “Video menu”
4) Highlight “Output Modules” ( by Clicking on it )
5) Located bottom right of the window, click “Advanced Options”
6) Under “Video OutPut Module” Select either one of the following options ( If one fails, try the other )
- DirectX Video OutPut
- Windows GDI Video OutPut (I had best luck with this)
Note that Default is usually the best option, so this is only to be changed if you have problems.
7) If these fail, you can try Dummy Video OutPut Function, or even one of the others.