VLC blinking when playing video

Question

When I am playing VLC, it is blinking. Impossible to watch.

What can be done?

Can't find disabling acceleration options, recommended in other answer.

Solution 1

click tools --> preferences ---> video

first try changing output to opengl before disabling acceleration.

Solution 2

Changing video input(not output) to VA-API over DRM working for me

Solution 3

select video output to X11 works. for this Go to Tools -> preferences -> Video -> Output(Drop-down menu) select X11 video output. and it works

Solution 4

this worked August-2018

tools > preferences > input/codecs >

hardware-accelerated decoding -- change from automatic to Disable

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Comments

[Admin]

Have you tried a standalone compositor such as compton?

[Dims]

Blinking nevertheless, although somehow differently

[Martin Bartlett]

Precisely, in my case using VLC version 2.2.2; Click tools --> preferences ---> Input/Codecs --> Hardware accelerated decoding; Setting to either "VA-API Decode via X11" or "VA-API Decode via DRM" instead of "Automatic" fixed this for me.