Reset Settings

This page describes how to reset to default settings.

Other "how to" pages

Windows

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 player preferences and cache files"

You should restart VLC then.

Linux / Unix

You have to launch a terminal and execute vlc --reset-config and VLC should start with settings reset.

Mac OS X

You have 3 options:

• If you still have VLC's disk image you downloaded to install it: it includes a script called "Reset Preferences", which allows you to do exactly that. Just launch it, click OK and you're done.
• If you can still launch VLC, go to the "Preferences" dialog in the VLC menu. It includes a "Reset All" button. Click it and confirm the dialog. VLC will reset and relaunch.
• Alternatively, reset VLC manually by removing a folder called "org.videolan.vlc" and a file named "org.videolan.vlc.plist". Both are stored in ~/Library/Preferences - use "Go To Folder" within the Finder's "Go" menu to show this folder.

VLC's configuration file

If VLC still 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

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.

This page is part of the informal VLC Support Guide.

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