Thanks for the quick reply. I'll look forward to version 1.0. I've used the "seamless transition" between playlist items of the same size to give many video-based presentations with VLC. It is an invaluable feature.
The newest versions of VLC insert a blank screen between playlist items, which is a change in behavior from what I'm used to. Can someone tell me how to turn this behavior off, so that subsequent items play with no transition at all? I'm using VLC 9.8 (Intel) on OS X 10.5.5.