I tried using a playlist to save my desktop screen capture settings (screen-width=400 and screen-height=400, i.e. a 400x400 crop of the top-left corner): https://gist.github.com/andyli/147c252790ccd2efa9b0c244c7a6078d When I open the playlists (both m3u/xspf), VLC didn't use the supplied option but ...