Win7 fullscreen issues

[cake_]

Hi!

I am wondering if I am the only one with this Problem, since I can't find any reports about it.

Every time a Video runs out in fullscreen mode the VLC-Window gets as small as possible and snaps to the upper left corner of the desktop.
When I now doubleclick another file in Windows Explorer, the Video starts playing in a window as big as my screen (1680x1050px) and some parts around the Video are white where it should be black and it stays somehow messed up until I quit VLC and restart it.

It's not easy to explain it, but the whole VLC-Window does behave strange and it is a bit annoying because it wasn't this way a few versions ago. I don't know when it started, but it's definitely this way since 1.1.0

What I would expect VLC to do is:
- resize the interface to video size when a new video starts
- when a video runs out in fullscreen, snap back to the window position and size it was before fullscreen
- never get messed up with white squares and stuff

So I reinstalled VLC a few times now and always let the old version uninstall and delete the old settings first.
I have checked the "always on top" option and the "resize interface to video size" option, the rest are default.

I have Windows7 x64 Professional, VLC 1.1.2 and a Nvidia 9600GM with the latest drivers.
As already said, it's a relatively new issue. I remember earlier VLC builds to have no problems at all snapping out of fullscreens.

And lastly: manually ending fullscreen BEFORE the video ends causes no problems at all.
The problem occurs ONLY when a video runs out by itself.

Sorry for my babbling, I'm sure you got it by now

Hopefully you experience the same issue and can fix it

Thanks for the otherwise excellent software!

cake

[VLC_help]

Does it help if you remove %appdata%\vlc folder?

[cake_]

It helps a little.
At least now I know that it is the "always on top" option causing the problem.

So always on top makes the VLC-Window freak out when a video runs out in fullscreen.
Without always on top it seems to be fine.

I thought I excluded that before, but maybe I did it wrong.
Anyways, I would love to be able to use "always on top".

(And while we're at it I would love to have a, "on top while playing" option like the one the Mediaplayer Classic had, but I think it is on the wishlist already)

[VLC_help]

Thanks. I think it is related to http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/3975 and http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/3939

[cake_]

Hmm, it might be.

At least when you reproduce issue 3939, VLC doesn't dissappear completely, if you disable "always on top".
You are then able to recover the window, although it is also snapped to the upper left corner and the Video is ~20x20 px small.

It almost seems as if someone introduced a new window positioning function in 1.1.x and simply forgot to call it sometimes

[edit]
I just found out that my fullscreen-thing was already on the Buglist http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/3976
Whoever has an account there has my permission to add x64 systems to it

[VLC_help]

The issue isn't x64 related since videolan doesn't do Win64 builds.

[cake_]

Okay, then I misunderstood the change from all to win32. I think I get it now.

That leaves me with one last OT question:
If the 1.1.x maintenance milestone is due in 3 weeks, does that mean that all the issues on that list should be fixed by then?
That would be very impressive. Makes me almost sad I am not qualified to be of any assistance.

[VLC_help]

does that mean that all the issues on that list should be fixed by then?

There isn't any guarantee if that is what you are asking.