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If you can start VLC, go to Tools -> Preferences and then press Reset Preferences and Save to reset and save VLC settings. Remember to restart VLC after that to make sure changes are enabled.
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If your VLC player is showing a strange behaviour and you want to fix it, then reset the VLC preferences in the preferences of the application.<br>Go to start menu -&gt; VideoLan -&gt; "Reset VLC media preferences ..." <br>
If you can't start VLC, go to %appdata% folder and delete vlc folder from there (Start -> run and type %appdata%\vlc there and press OK if you can't locate %appdata%).
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Also start menu -> VideoLan -> "Reset VLC media preferences ..."
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You should restart VLC then. If VLC doesn't want to start, you have to delete VLC's configuration file. This file is created by you, so if you want to know the exact location of it, change the available options in VLC and save the new configuration. There is now created a new configuration file in your user directory. So the precise locations of the configuration file depends now on the type of your operating system. Here are 3 examples about how your path now can be, which are grabbed from: http://www.videolan.org/support/faq.html <br>Linux / Unix<br>$(HOME)/.config/vlc/vlcrc (v0.9.0 and above), $(HOME)/.vlc/vlcrc (v0.8 and older)
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Mac OS<br>X:HOME/Library/Preferences/org.videolan.vlc HOME/Library/Preferences/VLC (v0.9 and older)
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Windows Vista/7<br>C:\Users\%username%\Application Data\vlc\vlcrc <br>If your operating system isn't mentioned here you, can find it on the above-mentioned homepage.&nbsp;

Revision as of 06:47, 16 December 2011

If your VLC player is showing a strange behaviour and you want to fix it, then reset the VLC preferences in the preferences of the application.
Go to start menu -> VideoLan -> "Reset VLC media preferences ..."

You should restart VLC then. If VLC doesn't want to start, you have to delete VLC's configuration file. This file is created by you, so if you want to know the exact location of it, change the available options in VLC and save the new configuration. There is now created a new configuration file in your user directory. So the precise locations of the configuration file depends now on the type of your operating system. Here are 3 examples about how your path now can be, which are grabbed from: http://www.videolan.org/support/faq.html
Linux / Unix
$(HOME)/.config/vlc/vlcrc (v0.9.0 and above), $(HOME)/.vlc/vlcrc (v0.8 and older)

Mac OS
X:HOME/Library/Preferences/org.videolan.vlc HOME/Library/Preferences/VLC (v0.9 and older)

Windows Vista/7
C:\Users\%username%\Application Data\vlc\vlcrc
If your operating system isn't mentioned here you, can find it on the above-mentioned homepage.