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Try emptying your browser cache. No santa hat when I look.

This thread is in the Mac board, but your screen shot is not the Mac version so you should post in the board for the OS you're are using for more direct help.

Untick "Show video within the main window" in the preferences (at least under OS X)

If you have Preferences -> Video -> Window decorations unchecked, the video window will have no frame or controls, so check it to get them. If it's already checked, you may need to trash your preferences or click Reset All in the prefs.

You can download previous versions here:

http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/

I'll assume you meant OSX 10.5.8. Did you download the PowerPC version? https://get.videolan.org/vlc/2.0.9/macosx/vlc-2.0.9-powerpc.dmg Although I'm not sure if the G4 is supported in that version, so failing the above, try: http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/1.1.12/macosx/vlc-1.1.12-powe...

I've created a Ticket:

https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/9818

Using 2.1.1 nightly, I finding that if I open VLC without playing the video and move the playlist, after I quit an re-open the window is where it was before I moved it. However if I move it and play a video, it then remembers where it was after re-opening.

Also, you might try setting it to "Use the native fullscreen mode" and select "Displays have separate Spaces" in Mission Control if you were never using that before to see if it's any better.

After making any of the above changes, you should restart VLC.... just making sure. Otherwise, that's probably the limit of what I can guess at here without a 2nd display. Someone else will need to step in. ...or you can add to this ticket which seems to be about the same issue: https://trac.videola...

In your VLC preferences, do you also have "Use the native fullscreen mode" under "Interface" deselected? ...and then under "Video" maybe try deselecting "Black screens in Fullscreen mode".

This could have to do with Apple's revised multiple displays / spaces support. I don't have a 2nd display here, so this is just a shot in the dark, but try going to "System Preferences -> Mission Control" and deselect "Displays have separate Spaces". You may also have options I d...

Yes, that usually indicates a post was deleted that was most likely a spam post.

With phpBB, the message remains in the outbox until it is read allowing you a chance to further revise it before it is read. Once read it will move to the sent box.

96 kbps is low to begin with but up-sampling will gain you nothing. As you can see Quicktime is not actually demuxing since that would normally give you the original audio data. It's simply encoding it to a new format. Best to not re-encode an already low quality track since it could make it sound w...

Native audio format for an mp4 is usually an AAC so naming it .m4a instead of .mp3 may make a difference. You can also try dropping the original file on iMediaHud to see what it's exact specs are. (https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/40255/imediahud) You can get a small bit of that information while p...

Actually, what they need to do is just read the exif meta information that tells the player what orientation the video is so it's automatic.

Open the Video Effects window and go to Geometry --> Transform. It has rotate and flip options.

Under the menu View --> Show Previous and Next Buttons. Although it looks like they introduced some inconsistency now if you play video in a separate window. If you turn on the second set of buttons. The playlist window has a short click on the RW/FF jump briefly as expected, but the video window st...

Regardless of the playlist, when you double click a video, VLC does just open up and plays it. To work more like older versions of VLC, open your Preferences, go to Interface and deselect "Show video within the main window". Click Save. Now click the playlist button at the lower left (3 ho...

JB, this is also likely due to the over twice as much cpu usage (vs 2.0.8 ) with sharpen turned on that I've reported at: https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/9458

Dropped frames issues is how I first noticed which lead me to notice the cpu usage problem.

Maybe…

Preferences --> Show All --> Video --> Subtitles/OSD

Is there a file listed next to "Use subtitle file"? If so, try blanking that out.

It already works that way for me… at least in OS X.

The video has DRM encoded in it so that it only plays in Windows Media Player or a player that can decrypt it which as far as I know hasn't been licensed to the Mac even with Flip4Mac.

Maybe find a better source for your videos. MKVs are more reliable for me.

I've since found some sites like dvdtalk.com and amazon.com that do show results for past month. Weird.