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I have this problem as well, and as far as I understand it a) the proper link is: http://nightlies.videolan.org/build/macosx-intel/ and b) since version 1.0 is dropping osx 10.4 support, that's not really a viable solution, since, at least the two posters here are not using 10.5

the easiest way I can think of would be to start vlc with something like /Applications/VLC/Contents/MacOS/clivlc "the name of your movie.mpg" You can type that into a terminal window and vlc will open with just the movie window. But, you don't have access to any features (pause, fast forwa...

Thank you so much. It seems like such a horribly convulted solution to a seemingly simple problem.

Why would you need to? VLC, as far as I know, doesn't support the real libraries, and if you want to, you can run VLC from a terminal using clivlc.

Easy way is to have the playlist on the external monitor, and leave the default. For some reason, VLC accepts the display with the playlist/transport controls showing as the default monitor. I got it to work in the preferences once, but VLC doesn't really like its preference files.