Was trying to play a video that just refused to play on anything on my Windows 10 /11 machines.
VLC would play the audio, but the video would blink black and weirdly, and would seem to make me loose control of VLC
There were a number of codec changes etc. that were reported to fix the problem, never worked for me.
What DID fix my issue was installing the 64 bit version of VLC, which I really don't recall ever knowingly do before! Fixed the problem right up for me