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Moving a borderless VLC window on Windows 8/10 desktop?

Postby tl7 » 30 Jun 2016 01:03

It looks like it has been 3+ years since this topic has been addressed in the forums.

VLC flags "--no-video-deco" and "--no-embedded-video" can be used to start a borderless window but it looks like this borderless window still cannot be moved within the Windows 8/10 desktop. Is there a way to do this? Prior posts infer that this functionality is available on Linux.

I doubt this is a Windows-related restriction because this functionality is available on the MPC-HC player.

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Re: Moving a borderless VLC window on Windows 8/10 desktop?

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 01 Jul 2016 00:49

You cannot move it with the mouse, no.
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Re: Moving a borderless VLC window on Windows 8/10 desktop?

Postby mederi » 01 Jul 2016 18:10

VLC options for setting a position of non-embedded video:
--video-x=<integer [-2147483648 .. 2147483647]>
Video X coordinate
You can enforce the position of the top left corner of the video
window (X coordinate).
--video-y=<integer [-2147483648 .. 2147483647]>
Video Y coordinate
You can enforce the position of the top left corner of the video
window (Y coordinate).
You need to use some external helper to move the VLC borderless video window by a mouse. You could try KDE Mover-Sizer (Alt + Left-MB drag&drop) and/or NiftyWindows (Ctrl + Right-MB) whether they work for you on Windows 8/10. They work well on XP.

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Re: Moving a borderless VLC window on Windows 8/10 desktop?

Postby tl7 » 01 Jul 2016 22:41

KDE Mover-Sizer (x64 version) works. Simple to install and use - thanks for the suggestion!

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Re: Moving a borderless VLC window on Windows 8/10 desktop?

Postby dojima » 18 Aug 2016 04:31

You cannot move it with the mouse, no.
Why?

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Re: Moving a borderless VLC window on Windows 8/10 desktop?

Postby jayR » 18 Aug 2016 09:03

Because you don't have a handle to pull.

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Re: Moving a borderless VLC window on Windows 8/10 desktop?

Postby dojima » 18 Aug 2016 12:13

Because you don't have a handle to pull.
There are many skinned programs and skinned elements of programs that don't look like a traditional Windows UI but can still be moved around the screen and resized as one would expect. I'm not sure what having a handle has to do with anything.

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Re: Moving a borderless VLC window on Windows 8/10 desktop?

Postby jayR » 19 Aug 2016 00:25

You need title bar to pull around window.

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Re: Moving a borderless VLC window on Windows 8/10 desktop?

Postby dojima » 19 Aug 2016 02:38

You need title bar to pull around window.
As the OP mentioned, the exact functionality requested works natively in MPC-HC, so that's not true.

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Re: Moving a borderless VLC window on Windows 8/10 desktop?

Postby refried » 10 Nov 2017 04:27

It is absolutely ridiculous that vlc has no borderless window option in 12 years. MPC has it, MPCHC has it, even the drag happy MPV has it. It's absurd and inexcusable. vlc has no benefit over those other players regardless of what OS you use.

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Re: Moving a borderless VLC window on Windows 8/10 desktop?

Postby dojima » 12 Nov 2017 12:16

It is kind of silly when software designers stubbornly refuse to add a feature simply because they can't understand the merit of it. I don't know if that's what's going on here, but that is what it seems like.

Many people desire this feature. I'm not saying you should drop everything and get to work on it immediately, but taking it into consideration and perhaps adding it to the roadmap seems entirely reasonable. The feature already mostly exists; all that needs to be done is to make it possible for the window to be moved around and resized without resorting to arcane methods.

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Re: Moving a borderless VLC window on Windows 8/10 desktop?

Postby mltx » 01 Feb 2019 22:30

Hey,

Is still feature still missing??

Coming from any other modern app, it feels just impossible to get used to not having the ability to move the window from anywhere of the player.

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Re: Moving a borderless VLC window on Windows 8/10 desktop?

Postby ymca » 03 Jul 2020 19:08

Yes it's still missing :(
Maybe they need to build VLC from zero to have that feature?!?
So use MPC-HC like I do for main videos and if you need vlc for one thing and have no choice, then open VLC.

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Re: Moving a borderless VLC window on Windows 8/10 desktop?

Postby 3xploiton3 » 24 Jan 2021 13:46

now is 2021, we need this behavior,

please make it possible soon

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Re: Moving a borderless VLC window on Windows 8/10 desktop?

Postby Lotesdelere » 25 Jan 2021 11:02

+1

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Re: Moving a borderless VLC window on Windows 8/10 desktop?

Postby wozmatic » 13 Feb 2021 19:56

It is kind of silly when software designers stubbornly refuse to add a feature simply because they can't understand the merit of it. I don't know if that's what's going on here, but that is what it seems like.

Many people desire this feature. I'm not saying you should drop everything and get to work on it immediately, but taking it into consideration and perhaps adding it to the roadmap seems entirely reasonable. The feature already mostly exists; all that needs to be done is to make it possible for the window to be moved around and resized without resorting to arcane methods.
dojima, how much time have you put into developing this app? Would you like to learn how to program this specific feature and send the code to the devs?

If not, then you are stubbornly refusing to learn to program this feature simply because you don't understand how to code it...

Some people in here have absolutely no right to complain about software that is FREE and developers donate their time for FREE to make a FREE video player for us to download.

Would I love to see this feature? Yes of course, but I have no right to expect it, only a polite request. We should be thankful VLC is free.

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Re: Moving a borderless VLC window on Windows 8/10 desktop?

Postby mkdr » 25 Mar 2022 17:44

This post is just a perfect example, why you should all just abandon this garbage software. VLC is dead. It is still on the same terrible "tech level" as of 1999. VLC is a dead fossil. It lacks simple features since 20 years. This is a perfect example of one of them. Every software has a borderless window mode where you can drag it around, every other video player, also Chrome/Firefox PiP mode can do this. But oh no, it can be done in VLC. Right.


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