Video Desktop without setting ?

[asd4free]

Recently i changed my wallpaper and when playing a video while vlc is minimized, strange artifacts appeared on my desktop. When i checked thoroughly they were on every pixel that had a RGB value of #000001. Being curious, i changed my desktop background color to mentioned value and played video, the video was played as if i chose directx video wallpaper mode. Is this suppose to happen? Also can it be avoided without changing wallpaper. (Using Windows XP SP3, NVidia Geforce with forceware 93.71, VLC Player 1.0.5)

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Update VLC.

[VLC_help]

Or disable Overlay video output.
http://wiki.videolan.org/WindowsFAQ-1.1 ... _output.3F

[asd4free]

The mentioned bug seems to be hardware independent since same result on dell latitude with ATI Radeon mobility. Also it still exists in vlc 1.1.1. Disabling overlay also disables video acceleration, i think, as high res videos become choppy on my low end machines. Anyway the problem is negligible, i just photoshoped my wallpaper to replace all value #000001 pixels to just plane old black.