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If I hide the Previous and Next buttons, the Jump Forward and Back buttons no longer work. They become Previous and Next buttons themselves (in behavior, not in appearance). Does this happen for anyone else? Any chance this will get fixed?

The only way I've found to achieve what you are describing is to disable auto-playback of new items in the Interface Preferences (click Show All to reveal), and from then on launch VLC first, then double-click (or drag/drop) the mp4 file(s) to add them to a playlist. Double-clicking mp4 files to lau...

It's been over two years, but I really hope they make it change automatically, or at the very least make a hotkey for it, so we don't have to go into the Preferences every time we want to change it.

I'm using 3.0.4, but for all I know, this could applly to earlier versions as well... I like to keep the Previous and Next buttons hidden, because I never use them, so it's just GUI clutter to me. However, it seems that, when those buttons are hidden, the Forward and Back buttons also operate as Pre...

I was trying to transcode a TS file to MP4 (using the wizard), but the transcoding took far longer than it should have, so I stopped it. Unfortunately, the aborted transcoding process used over 500MB of disk space, and I can't find the file VLC was writing, nor where the temporary data is being stor...