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In previous versions of VLC I remember the always play in "fullscreen" option was completely bugged and useless, but now it seems to work only it defaults to the wrong monitor even if I have a default playback monitor selected. Also when I open a video when VLC is already open it doesn't auto play in fullscreen.

I've had the same problem since VLC 2.0, although it seems to manifest slightly differently to you.

Currently I've got VLC set to launch Video in a separate window, to NOT use native OS X Fullscreen mode, to open video in fullscreen and to use my second monitor ("Screen 2"), I'm having VLC now automatically open a video in fullscreen on the first ("Screen 1") monitor on launch. Pressing "Fullscreen" (CMD-F) twice minimises to a window and then (usually) fullscreens the video onto the correct display - "Screen 2".

With VLC 2.0 and 2.0.1, VLC ignored the "Open in Fullscreen" setting although something inside obviously thought it had gone fullscreen, because again it took two presses of CMD-F to get it to fullscreen on "Screen 2".

I've tried deleting preferences, I've tried re-installing and there's no change in this behaviour.

Hello,

thanks for the report. I just filed ticket 7051 on this.

Hi,

In previous versions of VLC I remember the always play in "fullscreen" option was completely bugged and useless, but now it seems to work only it defaults to the wrong monitor even if I have a default playback monitor selected.

This bug should be fixed now.

Also when I open a video when VLC is already open it doesn't auto play in fullscreen.

For that, I need more details in which situation it does not work. The current behaviour should be the following:
If you start vlc, and open a video afterwards, the video should go to fullscreen, immediately. But after you played the video (and stopped it), and you open another one, this one will be played in a normal window.

If you start vlc, and open a video afterwards, the video should go to fullscreen, immediately. But after you played the video (and stopped it), and you open another one, this one will be played in a normal window.

Doesn't that seem pretty useless. Why would someone only want it to go into fullscreen for the first video played only. I would think people would want the setting to always play the video in full screen regardless as a toggle from the default state of always starting the video in a window first. Just my 2 cents.

Yes, I also think that this is not really the best behaviour. But AFAIK this is the current platform-independent intention for that option, which needs to be improved at a deeper level here.

For now, we should just think for this option as a "fullscreen on startup" functionality.