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no problem happy to help

right ok just noticed this myself, the first idea will still work - right clicking and deselecting fullscreen and then right clicking again to pause, this is probably the easiest way. The only other way i can think of is to alt tab and right click on the taskbar at the bottom of your screen and sele...

You could right click and select pause, then right click again and untick full screen or alt and tab out of the video

This is strange, to my knowledge the newest version of vlc player lets you open two videos at the same time without making changes to any of the settings. Have you tried opening two vlc media players and then going file - open file on each one?
hope this helps