Display Video Coordinate options not working

[jahanzeb]

I am trying to display a video on a specific location on screen, but the video coordinate options doesnt seem to be working. I am trying the following command. Have tested this on Fedora VLC 1.1.13 and Ubuntu VLC 2.0.1.

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vlc -v --scale=0.25 --video-x=0 --video-y=0 Movie.mp4

[jahanzeb]

I found the following information in the bug report http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/3215.

Qt4 never respected the video-x and video-y setting. We definitely don't want to move the whole UI on every video...

If you want to set the video position, you need to disable embedded mode.

I have tried the no embed option but that didnt work also.

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cvlc --video-x 0 --video-y 0 --no-embedded-video --scale 0.25 Movie.mp4

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

The bug report is about Windows" They should work fine there.

On Linux/X11, they will only apply if the window manager does not override the window coordinates. By design, virtually all X11 window managers do, if only to avoid all windows being shown in the top/left corner. So basically the window coordinates only apply without window manager running. The real problem is, --no-video-deco is not currently implemented on Linux/X11, so there is no way to disable window management.