VLC 3.0 Mouse Pointer/Cursor does not disappear during playback

[Raza0007]

This is for VLC (vlc-3.0.0-20170311-0452-git-win64) latest nightly, 64-bit, on Windows 7 64 bit.

I just wanted to let the developers know that sometime around September 2016 onwards, the nightly builds of VLC v3.0 stopped hiding the mouse cursor in full screen mode. The options are all there and they are set, but the mouse cursor/pointer stays on the screen during playback.

For comparison, I have an older version of VLC v3.0 (vlc-3.0.0-git-20160321-0402-win64) currently installed on the same system and it automatically hides the mouse pointer after 1000 milliseconds of video playback, even when the video is not in full screen mode.

I have checked it with both 32-bit/64-bit versions of latest VLC 3.0 and on Windows 7 64-bit/Windows 10 64-bit systems.

Thanks,

~Raza

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Yes, it seems to happen on some configurations, but not all of them. We'll investigate.

[Raza0007]

Thanks

[kewi]

I have that annoying problem too.

My problem was solved by setting "Hide cursor and and full screen controller after x milliseconds" to anything below 900. Have not hunted the breaking point but 999 does not work. The cursor will usually eventually disappear by some other setting, don’t know which but it takes to long. I like 500ms and that works.
The cursor setting is found by selecting Tools - Preferences, select 'Show settings' to all at the bottom of the window. Then select Video and you'll see it.

Will try to find time to check the code and see if I could contribute, but spontaneously it feels like some unit tests are lacking. As the problem starts at some threshold above 900.
Problems with the cursor seems to have been around for many many many years, at least thirteen by glancing google results.

Hope this is help to someone. I am a happier camper now.

[kewi]

Note that this is only tested by me, in windows. So it could be windows specific but does not necessarily make it so. My HTPC is currently running windows (10) and has been for a its lifespan (probably ending soon) so I have been annoyed by that problem for a long time.

[painkiller362]

I traced this bug down to the following nightly: vlc-3.0.0-20161201-0242-git-win32 (running on Win7 x64)
The previous nightly hides the cursor as expected: vlc-3.0.0-20161130-0248-git-win32
In the source code of the nightly 20161201 the following files are changed:
display.c
display.h
video_output.c
All three source files reference changes to the function "vout_HideWindowMouse". Judging by that function name, it is probably somehow the cause for this cursor problem.
The latest nightly (as of writing this post) is vlc-3.0.0-20170803-0259 which is still affected by this bug.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

I traced this bug down to the following nightly: vlc-3.0.0-20161201-0242-git-win32 (running on Win7 x64)
The previous nightly hides the cursor as expected: vlc-3.0.0-20161130-0248-git-win32
In the source code of the nightly 20161201 the following files are changed:
display.c
display.h
video_output.c
All three source files reference changes to the function "vout_HideWindowMouse". Judging by that function name, it is probably somehow the cause for this cursor problem.
The latest nightly (as of writing this post) is vlc-3.0.0-20170803-0259 which is still affected by this bug.

Please report the bug then on trac.videolan.org

[painkiller362]

Thanks, I updated the already existing ticket 17819 over there: https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/17819

[painkiller362]

Bug is fixed with latest nightly "vlc-3.0.0-20170810-0302-git-win32".

[The420man]

Having this issue in version 3.0.3 on mac OS. I have tried changing the hide cursor setting but no matter what I set it to, the cursor always shows after about 1 second of it disappearing.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Having this issue in version 3.0.3 on mac OS. I have tried changing the hide cursor setting but no matter what I set it to, the cursor always shows after about 1 second of it disappearing.

This it a Windows forum and a Windows issue. Open a new post.

[Gilzy Alessandro]

I found a way of getting it to hide, it was such an annoyance to me too.
Anyways, I went to
Tools > preferences > look and feel > use custom skin

And then saved.
Exited the current video and restarted VLC.
Just like that I saw the stubborn cursor fade to sleep.

Hope this helps.
Hit me up if it does!!!!!