VLC 2 and dual monitors

[xyzzy-xyzzy]

I tried the deselecting "Show video within the main window". Full screen video has always been set for my TV in the video prefs -- inherited from the vlc1 prefs. It still doesn't work for me. Movie starts playing on the main window no matter what I do. If I enable the separate controller it always appears on the full screen, i.e., TV, requiring me to move it off of there.

Also, vlc2 fouls up my audio settings. I use SwitchResX to enable/disable my tv. Along with that I switch the audio between my computer line out speakers and the optical audio to the TV. Somehow vlc2 affects that switching where I cannot flip between the computer line out and the optical once I've used vlc2. It get's "stuck" in the line-out once I've disable the TV. Only a reboot clears this problem. Never have this problem with vlc1.

Also, managed to crash it about 5 times too. I think that has something to do with playing full screen and quitting vlc while it is playing.

I give up. Vlc1 works. If it ain't broke I am not going to fix it. Vlc2 offers nothing I want (at present) except aggravation.

[uhanepono]

Of course, deactivate "Use the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion" and complain to Apple.

Many thanks for this!

[wingslevel]

I tried the deselecting "Show video within the main window". Full screen video has always been set for my TV in the video prefs -- inherited from the vlc1 prefs. It still doesn't work for me. Movie starts playing on the main window no matter what I do. If I enable the separate controller it always appears on the full screen, i.e., TV, requiring me to move it off of there.

Also, vlc2 fouls up my audio settings. I use SwitchResX to enable/disable my tv. Along with that I switch the audio between my computer line out speakers and the optical audio to the TV. Somehow vlc2 affects that switching where I cannot flip between the computer line out and the optical once I've used vlc2. It get's "stuck" in the line-out once I've disable the TV. Only a reboot clears this problem. Never have this problem with vlc1.

Also, managed to crash it about 5 times too. I think that has something to do with playing full screen and quitting vlc while it is playing.

I give up. Vlc1 works. If it ain't broke I am not going to fix it. Vlc2 offers nothing I want (at present) except aggravation.

Any update on this? I'd love to start using VLC 2 but I'm in this boat too. I've changed all the recommended preferences in 2.0.1 and restarted VLC umpteen times but it still plays video in a window on the main screen instead of Screen 2. Lion fullscreen is disabled, all that. Thanks for all your work, VideoLAN!

[fkuehne]

Sorry, opening the video in fullscreen by default is not supported in VLC 2.0.0 and 2.0.1. This will be re-added in VLC 2.0.2. Regrettably, I wasn't made aware of that regression in time for VLC 2.0.1.

[kdean]

I set both of those to OFF and it does the trick, but looks damn ugly. The controls are attached to the VLC library window, which is huge even when shrunk to its smallest size, compared to how it was before when it was just showing the controls with buttons that were larger than they are now.

With the video playing in a separate window, you can collapse the library to just the controller by clicking the playlist button (3 stacked lines) or you can close the entire playlist window so you don't have to see it.

[Gary King]

I set both of those to OFF and it does the trick, but looks damn ugly. The controls are attached to the VLC library window, which is huge even when shrunk to its smallest size, compared to how it was before when it was just showing the controls with buttons that were larger than they are now.

With the video playing in a separate window, you can collapse the library to just the controller by clicking the playlist button (3 stacked lines) or you can close the entire playlist window so you don't have to see it.

Okay thanks, I'll try that, perhaps after the next VLC update. I'm very happy with the latest version of the v1 line so far, especially compared to v2, which just seems like it has a lot of feature creep going on lately.