VLC media player is not displaying video, but audio works

1. • Go to Tools→Preferences→Video
   • Remove the tick for Accelerated video output (Overlay)
   • Try and play the movie again, you should now see output.

Or

2.

• Go to Tools→Preferences->Video
• Change Output to X11 Video output

If the above doesn't work, that particular video might have a proprietary video format that is not supported.

Reference here.

Also, This happend to me, but...

navigate to:

: menu Tool → Preferences → Video

Check the output drop-down menu

and check that you have chosen the appropriate output codec, It was set to "auto" in the drop-down and needed to be selected "X11"

My workaround is to delete the VLC config-file. Open a terminal in ~/.config/vlc and

rm vlc-qt-interface.conf

Weird thing, if i delete the config file with Nautilus filemanager: still no window.

I'm using Ubuntu 16.04 and updated to vlc 2.2.7. I had the same problem after updating the update.

Go to Tools -> Preferences -> Video -> Output and select any of the first three options that end in (XCB). This resolved the issue for me.

janitor-

You can also try either of the OpenGL options and they also work.