I've been tinkering around with VLC since I want to present a way to improve on a existing system for showing videos in a cinema.
My concept is that I, or some other knowledgeable, would do a simple playlist that would work as a "fire&forget"-solution. This because I want to be sure that the operators would just need to open the playlist, move the output window to the projector and make it full size. I thought that de-embedding it from the player would be ideal for this, since one would have the player-controls on the screen that the audience don't see. It sortof worked.
But some snags have been encountered:
1. No matter how I try, when the playlist changes to the next item, it sends the output-window to a random monitor (I have three on the system I'm testing this concept out on, 2 on a nvida gpu and one on a USB>DVI-device). I don't see any predictable pattern in the choices it makes, it just seems to not want to be in the same window it sat in during the last playlist item. This alone is irritating and kills the concept right off.
2. The old, "when changing playlist items, a brief fraction of a second the desktop underneath is shown, complete with VLC-interface etc." I have read around on the forum and not found out why this is so or how one could work around it. is there a workaround to this tiny lapse of focus that VLC always gets?
3. Is there a way to set up the playlist with pre-set settings like spoken languages, subtitles, custom color correction, cropping, aspect ratio, etc...? Maybe utilizing a system that reads a text-file that accompanies the video-file, filled with vlc-settings. That's just as easy to use as a well prepared .srt-file...? Maybe something for a future version though?
Both computers run windows 7, and I use VLC1.0.5.Goldeneye