# Motion backgrounds not displaying **URL:** \ **Category:** Uncategorized\ **Created:** [October 19, 2025, 3:23pm UTC](https://quelea.discourse.group/t/motion-backgrounds-not-displaying/1270 "2025-10-19T15:23:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![DGuice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3da27b/32.png) [@DGuice](https://quelea.discourse.group/u/DGuice)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2025, 3:23pm UTC](https://quelea.discourse.group/t/motion-backgrounds-not-displaying/1270/1 "2025-10-19T15:23:12Z")
I have just updated to windows 11 (new PC) Quelea 2024 locks up for some reason so I have rolled back to 2022. I have installed VLC (current version) When I try to use a motion background I get the desktop backgound instead. If I use a color or a static image that will display. I am at a loss for this one. Thanks David Guice Solid Rock Bible Church. ---
**Author:** ![JessyJP](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/quelea.discourse.group/jessyjp/32/292_2.png) [@JessyJP](https://quelea.discourse.group/u/JessyJP)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2025, 3:29pm UTC](https://quelea.discourse.group/t/motion-backgrounds-not-displaying/1270/2 "2025-10-19T15:29:36Z")
Do you have big video lib or lot’s of mp4 files ? ---
**Author:** ![DGuice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3da27b/32.png) [@DGuice](https://quelea.discourse.group/u/DGuice)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2025, 5:36pm UTC](https://quelea.discourse.group/t/motion-backgrounds-not-displaying/1270/3 "2025-10-19T17:36:20Z")
Yes and no. I say that because yes I have a very large library but no I do not keep them in the .vid folder. I just keep what I need there which since its a new install of Quelea is pretty small. ---
**Author:** ![berry120](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/quelea.discourse.group/berry120/32/4_2.png) [@berry120](https://quelea.discourse.group/u/berry120)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2025, 6:01pm UTC](https://quelea.discourse.group/t/motion-backgrounds-not-displaying/1270/4 "2025-10-19T18:01:50Z")
Hey, do you get an initial message saying that VLC couldn’t be found? ---
**Author:** ![DGuice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3da27b/32.png) [@DGuice](https://quelea.discourse.group/u/DGuice)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2025, 7:06pm UTC](https://quelea.discourse.group/t/motion-backgrounds-not-displaying/1270/5 "2025-10-19T19:06:56Z")
That is what is really weird. I don’t get any message about VLC at all. ---
**Author:** ![berry120](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/quelea.discourse.group/berry120/32/4_2.png) [@berry120](https://quelea.discourse.group/u/berry120)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2025, 8:24pm UTC](https://quelea.discourse.group/t/motion-backgrounds-not-displaying/1270/6 "2025-10-19T20:24:27Z")
Hmm, it is odd. Some people have had more luck with VLC 2.x, if you fancy giving that a try? Thanks, Michael ---
**Author:** ![DGuice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3da27b/32.png) [@DGuice](https://quelea.discourse.group/u/DGuice)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2025, 8:55pm UTC](https://quelea.discourse.group/t/motion-backgrounds-not-displaying/1270/7 "2025-10-19T20:55:17Z")
Worth a shot. I will give it a try when I can get back to church. ---
**Author:** ![DGuice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3da27b/32.png) [@DGuice](https://quelea.discourse.group/u/DGuice)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2025, 4:59pm UTC](https://quelea.discourse.group/t/motion-backgrounds-not-displaying/1270/8 "2025-10-21T16:59:12Z")
Well I tried 2.1.5 no luck. David Guice ---
**Author:** ![berry120](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/quelea.discourse.group/berry120/32/4_2.png) [@berry120](https://quelea.discourse.group/u/berry120)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2025, 7:35pm UTC](https://quelea.discourse.group/t/motion-backgrounds-not-displaying/1270/9 "2025-10-21T19:35:04Z")
Would you be able to grab the debug log from 2024? Maybe there’s a reason we can pin down why that locks up. > **[Locating the debug log](https://quelea-projection.github.io/docs/Debug_log.html)** > > User documentation ---
**Author:** ![DGuice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3da27b/32.png) [@DGuice](https://quelea.discourse.group/u/DGuice)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2025, 7:56pm UTC](https://quelea.discourse.group/t/motion-backgrounds-not-displaying/1270/10 "2025-10-21T19:56:14Z")
I will reinstall it tomorrow and grab it then ---
**Author:** ![berry120](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/quelea.discourse.group/berry120/32/4_2.png) [@berry120](https://quelea.discourse.group/u/berry120)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2025, 8:11pm UTC](https://quelea.discourse.group/t/motion-backgrounds-not-displaying/1270/11 "2025-10-21T20:11:34Z")
Thanks. Sorry for not being clear or sure on the root issue here! ---
**Author:** ![DGuice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3da27b/32.png) [@DGuice](https://quelea.discourse.group/u/DGuice)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2025, 8:58pm UTC](https://quelea.discourse.group/t/motion-backgrounds-not-displaying/1270/12 "2025-10-21T20:58:11Z")
No problem. I have been there and done that. ---
**Author:** ![DGuice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3da27b/32.png) [@DGuice](https://quelea.discourse.group/u/DGuice)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2025, 10:37pm UTC](https://quelea.discourse.group/t/motion-backgrounds-not-displaying/1270/13 "2025-10-22T22:37:49Z")
Got it!! I hope this helps. I was editing a song when Quelea stopped responding. I was watching task manager (I love multiple screens) and the projections window and the edit window both showed “Suspended” before Quelea crashed. Here’s the debug log. David (Attachment quelea-debuglog.zip is missing) ---
**Author:** ![DGuice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3da27b/32.png) [@DGuice](https://quelea.discourse.group/u/DGuice)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2025, 10:42pm UTC](https://quelea.discourse.group/t/motion-backgrounds-not-displaying/1270/14 "2025-10-22T22:42:04Z")
Well I have a problem. The debug log is not a graphic file. Hope are we getting those to you these days? David ---
**Author:** ![berry120](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/quelea.discourse.group/berry120/32/4_2.png) [@berry120](https://quelea.discourse.group/u/berry120)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2025, 11:01pm UTC](https://quelea.discourse.group/t/motion-backgrounds-not-displaying/1270/15 "2025-10-22T23:01:36Z")
You should be able to attach it as a txt, rather than a zip file? ---
**Author:** ![DGuice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3da27b/32.png) [@DGuice](https://quelea.discourse.group/u/DGuice)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2025, 11:18pm UTC](https://quelea.discourse.group/t/motion-backgrounds-not-displaying/1270/16 "2025-10-22T23:18:06Z")
I’ll give it a shot here. Hope this works. Just as a FYI here is my video card info. I just have an odd feeling that it might be relevant. David > **(attachments)** > > [quelea-debuglog.txt](https://quelea.discourse.group/uploads/short-url/z9X1deHltYWI0wUXt0q7Rt2j5oP.txt) (80.3 KB) > [NVIDIA System Information 10-22-2025 18-12-29.txt](https://quelea.discourse.group/uploads/short-url/dqNKkubfF8ecNjBbQib3dZWRzof.txt) (3.5 KB) ---
**Author:** ![berry120](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/quelea.discourse.group/berry120/32/4_2.png) [@berry120](https://quelea.discourse.group/u/berry120)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2025, 11:55pm UTC](https://quelea.discourse.group/t/motion-backgrounds-not-displaying/1270/17 "2025-10-22T23:55:46Z")
It looks like this is the log from Quelea 2022 rather than 2024? Though it is odd as it definitely still reports VLC initialised ok, so something is odd there. Nothing else to note though, I was hoping there might be an obvious exception / error that pointed to something not being initialised correctly. The video card shouldn’t be _too_ relevant, but a 3050 is absolutely more than good enough to run Quelea, so no issues there. ---
**Author:** ![DGuice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3da27b/32.png) [@DGuice](https://quelea.discourse.group/u/DGuice)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2025, 12:17am UTC](https://quelea.discourse.group/t/motion-backgrounds-not-displaying/1270/18 "2025-10-23T00:17:07Z")
Let me unpack it and resend. I had already installed 2022 and had it running for tonight. OK try again. David > **(attachments)** > > [quelea-debuglog.txt](https://quelea.discourse.group/uploads/short-url/aOuMZphUFjpMGbgV14ffNZjWJlY.txt) (190 KB) ---
**Author:** ![DeeTigIT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/74df32/32.png) [@DeeTigIT](https://quelea.discourse.group/u/DeeTigIT)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2025, 8:02am UTC](https://quelea.discourse.group/t/motion-backgrounds-not-displaying/1270/19 "2025-10-23T08:02:31Z")
Your log states: INFO: Started, version 2024.1 INFO: Using JAVA version 21.0.2 INFO: Starting midi control interface with [Reaper-Quelea] The latest Quelea release, however, is 2024.0 ( [Release 2024.0 · quelea-projection/Quelea · GitHub](https://github.com/quelea-projection/Quelea/releases/tag/v2024.0) ). Using the quelea-2024.0-x64-windows-install.exe : INFO: Started, version 2024.0 INFO: Using JAVA version 11.0.1211 I think you are using the JessyJP fork? ---
**Author:** ![DGuice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3da27b/32.png) [@DGuice](https://quelea.discourse.group/u/DGuice)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2025, 12:27pm UTC](https://quelea.discourse.group/t/motion-backgrounds-not-displaying/1270/20 "2025-10-23T12:27:10Z")
I have tried both. Had the same results. [Next page](https://quelea.discourse.group/t/motion-backgrounds-not-displaying/1270.md?page=2)