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It affects other things also than your external monitor. And that external monitor mirroring depends about your display adapter control panel settings (theater mode in ATI and full screen video mirroring in NVIDIA). OK, thanks again for your help. I still don't understand what's going on, though - ...

It is a standard name for that feature. Not something that (drunken) VLC devs came up. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_overlay Fair enough, but standard or no standard, it's not intuitively understandable for anyone who's not into video terminology, and that I would say is the majority of users....

Thanks so much - I just had to uncheck "overlay video output". Strange that I didn't figure it out myself, although I spent a lot of time trying out various combinations of checked and unchecked boxes... I don't want to gripe, but the option could probably be called something more easily u...

Hi everyone. I'm new, so first off, apologies if I'm asking anything obvious or really stupid. I run VLC (in John Haller's portable version) on a laptop with an external monitor. The display is set up in "clone" mode, i.e. everything that's visible on the built-in screen is mirrored on the...