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Thanks, I was particularly asking here due to the loss of control in full-screen mode in case there was a more generic issue, as I did expect the performance issue was pi-specific. I've come to the conclusion that vlc on a Pi4 isn't a good idea at the present (and I've tried a lot of settings, media...

BTW the Pi end of my search for an answer is here:
https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?p=2134544

Kodi can do it, so VLC should be able to do it, if whatever is required isn't too far away from how it works...

It has a number of options, there is a custom one for non-GUI environments, but that's not the default and not what I'm using. (I have asked there as well, but as the hidden Window thing sounded more on the VLC end I mention it here too. Also it's running on a chip designed to play media up to 4k 30...

I'm running the latest Raspberry Pi 64-bit OS on a 8GB Pi4, but VLC is proving a challenge and I'd like some ideas please. I'm using the 3.0.18 version of VLC that they provide (i.e. sudo apt-get install vlc) and say is compiled with Hardware support. Firstly I found whenever I went full-screen I lo...