excuse me but i could really use some info on these questions please.
thank you
for extra info i've now updated to vlc version 2.1.5 (still "rincewind").
at least it's not as bad an acronym as GIF (as in the animated pictures) which last time i looked stood for Gif Image Format, hence an eternity of fractal layers. imagine a tv displaying a picture of a tv, displaying a picture, and so on, but written down. that is what the word GIF is like. perhaps ...
it appears ontop of the cone on the logo during the few weeks around christmas. atleast it did during 2013/2014. it is fairly small but it can be scary when you first see it, i had to check google quickly wondering if it were some sort of virus, it isn't. it was a strange thing to see but it didn't ...
please note, i use windows 8 but i don't think that this is relevant to the issues and confusion i am having so i have used this section of the forum to post it. i have been a vlc user for a while but only used it as a simple video player for playing videos from my hard drive, dvds and music on loop...