The XBMC advanced settings file is not created by default. You must create the file manually with the name “advancedsettings” and save it as a .xml file in the following location: C:\Users\[YourUsername]\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\userdata\advancedsettings.xml

The two settings that I edited are loglevel and tvshowmatching. Loglevel was edited to help with debugging issues and tvshowingmatching was added because the default regex entries weren’t picking up all of my anime. Here are the contents of my advancedsettings.xml with comments added:
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When I attempted to play some of my videos in XBMC they would only display a blank black screen but the audio would still play. To get to the root of the problem I enabled debugging, played the troublesome video, and then checked the most recent entries in the log file located here: C:\Users\Peter\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\xbmc.log

As expected there were several warnings in the logfile but one line in particular stood out.

15:33:30 T:9520 WARNING: DXVA - colorspace not supported by processor, skipping frame

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Base Settings
System>Video output
Use a fullscreen window rather than true fullscreen:  Off
Blank other displays:  Off
Vertical blank sync:  Always Enabled
Video>Playback
Render method:  DXVA
Allow hardware acceleration (DXVA2):  On
Adjust display refresh rate to match video:  On
Pause during refresh rate change:  Off
Sync playback to display:  On
A/V sync method:  Video clock (Resample audio)
Allowed error in aspect ratio to minimize black bars:  None
Display 4:3 videos as:  Stretch 16:9
Activate Teletext:  On

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