In "Tools > Preferences", click "Reset Preferences" button.
Or delete VLC application data folder located in "C:\Documents and Settings\<your username>\Application Data\vlc" (on XP)
use the right mouse button to bring up a menu. De-select Full Screen, move the slider forward, until I get to the desired spot and then bring up the menu again in order to select Fullscreen You can do this a little faster by double-clicking on the video to go in and out of fullscreen mode. Also, yo...
Well, this is NORMAL, Open Dialog center on the underlying main Interface. Ah! I didn't notice that. Well, the positioning behavior is normal then. But what about remembering the size of the dialog? The resizing bug will be fixed 2morrow. I see that you've fixed the overlap of the checkbox (in git)...
I have been testing the nightlies for a while, and 0.9 works quite well for me, except for a little annoying problem: the position and size of the open dialog are not remembered when VLC is restarted. Also, with the latest nightly build, when you resize the open dialog vertically to its minimum size...
Reset preferences and cache. Open VLC preferences and click "Reset All", or delete VLC preferences folder (C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Application Data\vlc). To see "Application Data", show hidden files and folders in Windows. Disable overlay. In VLC preferences, open &...
goto settings, in advanced, full view, and click on the tree [Advanced/Extended] (just below audio), and go to the right side [Security Options] "Policy for handling unsafe options" and set this to "Allow" When I do this, I get the following error in the Errors window: File read...
With external subtitles, and yes, it happens with all the files I tested.
I just discovered that it only happens when I set the subtitles in the open dialog. If the subtitle is automatically detected by vlc (when it has the same name as the movie), it plays fine.
It would be great if vlc could display fullscreen video with user chosen zoom (or width/height).
This is useful when you have such a big screen that video becomes horribly pixelated in fullscreen mode .