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I think it's mostly a bug in El Capitan bug that's keeping the menu bar from being hidden when in the old full screen view. I've had a couple full screen flash videos do the same thing. That said, if you could get the native full screen mode in VPC to only use a particular screen like the non-native...

Since upgrading to El Capitan, I've found that when using the old Fullscreen mode ('Use the Native Fullscreen Mode' unchecked), the menu bar isn't hidden when the vlc window is in fullscreen mode. Yosemite and earlier this always hid the menubar without issue. I've tried with 2.2.1 and the latest ni...

Yeah, normal iTunes

It's not the end of the world. I didn't even know that VLC would pause iTunes when I started playing videos, so leaving the setting off is fine for me.

No, installing Spotify didn't change anything. Basically the hanging pauses stopped when I either: Had the setting on ''Pause iTunes /Spotify' and had iTunes closed. Had the setting on 'Do Nothing' and had iTunes open or closed. So i think it's definitely VLC trying to pause iTunes 12.0.1 that is ca...

Looks like my problem with VLC in Yosemite was due to the 'Control external music players' setting being set to 'Pause iTunes /Spotify'. So I turned this setting to 'Do Nothing' and POOF! My hanging pauses stopped happening. If I turn it back to 'Pause iTunes /Spotify' and close iTunes, the problem ...

I think I found the cause... After thinking about the Spotify references in the logs, I combed through all the preferences and found the 'Control external music players' setting was set to 'Pause iTunes /Spotify'. Eureka! Now I didn't have Spotify installed until I tried installing it after seeing t...

Figured I'd start a new thread since other threads have suggested posting log files trying to track down this problem with VLC pausing/freezing under Yosemite that seems to be affecting some users. Downloaded the newest nightly build of 2.2 (have seen this with 3.0 nightly builds as well). vlc-2.2.0...

Hmm. There might be two hangs mixed up here. VLC might hang if you start the application (without any video file). And VLC might hang if you have the application already open, and start a specific file (namely mkv with .ass subtitle). Please clarify which of the two hangs you are experiencing, and ...

The hang should only happen _once_. If you wait, all subsequent files should play immediately. If the same file hangs every time, please file a bug report so we can check what is actually wrong. Nope, it happens for me almost every time under Yosemite. Once is a while it'll suddenly start working n...

There's another thread on this. Several other people having similar problems. Although I think you may find that if you leave the 'hung' VLC app, it may eventually start playing the video. That happens with me. I can't play any video type in VLC without the pause. MP4, MKV, M4V... Although once in a...

Yeah, I'm seeing this as well after upgrading to Yosemite last night. A long (3-5 minutes) hang up before the video starts playing eventually. Every video I try, including ones that played fine before upgrading,that play fine in Quicktime player, and MPlayer Extended. Once the pause is done, the vid...

Yes, this is not possible for 2.0, but we will reintroduce something for a minor version of VLC 2.0.x That would be great. I don't see why it is annoying to you. If you don't like the playlist, don't use it... It doesn't really annoy me, but I was just commenting that it isn't my cup of tea. If it ...

First, thank you for not forcing us to use Lion's full screen mode. It is such a bad way to implement full screen, it's pointless (and is completely broken if you have two or more screens). I'd have to stop using VLC if that was the only way to go to full screen mode. I appreciate the time and effor...