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  Appears not to exist, but there's at least :       ☑ Pause playback when minimized … which appears under Settings   >  Simple   >  Interface . This setting can accomplish the original goal of pausing playback when the VLC window is completely obscured by another window, but only indirectly. Since ...

VLC Preferences contains a useful checkbox setting called Pause playback if minimized . What I'm looking for would ideally be a similar checkbox setting that might read Pause playback if window inactive , to use Windows terminology, just meaning to pause whatever's playing if another window is opene...

For his trouble, this OP was (a) given advice which he didn't ask for ( he specified he wanted to transcode ) and didn't work for him in any case ( nor will it work for anybody with those silly-ass single quote marks ), and then (b) ignored when he said the advice wasn't working. I'm sure the board ...

Hmm, two years after the last post, but regardless of time, this thread addressed my Google question, which was "how to set a custom aspect ratio in vlc"—using version 2.1.3, CloudStalker's post worked perfectly: Preferences, All, Video, Source aspect ratio... set it to 2:1, Save, close vl...

Maybe it's because there's a lot of "this works in this version but that doesn't work in that version" that no one is giving this issue much mind, but it's a shame because this is an incredibly useful thing to be able to control at a snap using the keyboard, and judging from the feedback, ...

Anybody? No one knows?

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Since writing the OP I saw in another video that it isn't necessarily "9" levels… there were a lot more in this other video, like around 15–20. But the two basic questions I asked are still valid… anyone?

Hi all, For years I've been using ZOOM only, and didn't even know there was such a thing as SCALE, even though I knew VLC is stuffed with features I'm not using, but today I finally looked into it when I tried to find out how to set up a CUSTOM ZOOM LIST… the idea being to see more than just "q...

You can use WAV encapsulation—it's audio only—but you'll still need to convert from .WAV to .MP3 in another app.