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I was having an issue in some of my code where if I called libvlc_media_player_set_xwindow, it would sometimes fail, and libvlc would then display in it's own default window instead of using my nice crisp new window (which was definately there). I could never get it to occur on my development comput...

Thank you, that may be exactly the problem/solution. Gonna give it some testing now.

This has occured on multiple computers (Win 7, Win 8, 32 bit, 64 bit (using 32-bit vlc)) Version 2.05 and Version 2.06 (and I even tried Version 2.1) Basically, if I set my system up to run quickly through videos, start them, and then stop them after a couple of seconds (going for the quick kill for...

<sigh> I was hoping for a method that didn't involve using a special compile, but oh well. Thank you for your help.

Is there any way to override that? I am using libvlc_media_player currently.

I'm working on a fairly specific hardware setup, and basically at the limits of what it can perform. However the --vout parameter is being completely ignored from libvlc. (I can put --vout=fb,none which should fail emphatically, and it does not. I believe it is using x11 all the time) I am providing...

libvlc Version 2.0.3 I'm having an issue where if I run vlc as an application, and set the video output to glx, it works very smoothly, but if I attempt the same thing programmatically with libvlc, it goes a little chunky. If I try placing the --vout glx parameters, it doesn't appear to have any eff...