VLC inconsistent width, height, x, y via cli

[pprzemek]

Running this on mac osx via CLI produces very inconsistent results in regards to setting the initial position of the video box and its size. So far it manages to pop up in a different place every single time. Assuming

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--video-x=0 --video-y=0

video should pop up in the top left corner of the screen but that was not the case.

Could somebody shed some light on this. Thanks.

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vlc --height=188 --width=334 --video-x=0 --video-y=0 --video-on-top --no-macosx-video-autoresize --no-video-deco --no-video-title-show --no-embedded-video -vvv rtsp://xx.xxx.xxx.xxx:xx/stream

[pprzemek]

After further investigation is looks like the default behaviour for --video-x=X --video-y=X is offset based on the position of the previously placed video screen ... instead of the x,y position of the desktop?

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

File a bugreport.

[pprzemek]

Done https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/13889

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Thanks.

[Apaco]

Hello pprzemek,

2 things:

1) Older versions had trouble with the x or y coordinate being 0 (zero). I've verified that 2.2 also has this issue. Try 1,1 instead of 0,0.
2) The windows will be placed in the right place (using 1 instead of 0) if using the --no-autoscale command line option (in Windows) BUT the video is zoomed and cropped to the center of the video. See example image: https://www.dropbox.com/s/jdixj528w3qs5 ... .jpg?raw=1
These are my command lines to produce the picture:
vlc.exe udp://@233.3.3.1:3333 --no-embedded-video --qt-start-minimized --no-video-deco --width="640" --height="360" --video-x="1" --video-y="1"
vlc.exe udp://@233.3.3.1:3333 --no-autoscale --video-on-top --no-embedded-video --qt-start-minimized --no-video-deco --width="640" --height="360" --video-x="1" --video-y="1"

Jean-Baptiste - Will the DEVs see this? It may be helpful...or it may not.

Kind Regards

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Jean-Baptiste - Will the DEVs see this? It may be helpful...or it may not.

It's complex

[pprzemek]

VLC fails to start with --qt-start-minimized on mac. As far as I can see --video-x="1" --video-y="1" seems to be making some sort of difference even without --no-autoscale.

Tested against OS X 10.10.x with nightly

VLC media player 2.2.1 Weatherwax (revision 2.2.0-8-gfae03b9)
VLC version 2.2.1 Weatherwax (2.2.0-8-gfae03b9)
Compiled by buildbot on jones.via.ecp.fr (Mar 4 2015 03:05:33)
Compiler: clang: warning: argument unused during compilation: '-mmacosx-version-min=10.6'

[dfuhrmann]

Qt is not available on mac.

[pprzemek]

Would be nice to be able to start VLC in the minimized for on mac.

[pprzemek]

Yes it looks like VLC 0,0 point of reference is bottom left corner of the screen and it has to be 1,1.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

File a bug.

[pprzemek]

It looks like there is an issue with multiple screens and y position. If 2 or more screens are used and in the display configuration they are placed above or below the main screen so y should be negative or positive over the height of the main screen vlc instance/s is/are placed at the random position on the dedicated screen.

[pprzemek]

Done https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/14252

[pprzemek]

Has this bug been resolved? Thanks.