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In skin mode when I play videos mp4, mov and double click to go to full screen it gives the EQ visualization.
If I set it to start in full screen it's ok but then in a smaller screen it's the EQ again.

In vlc hit Ctrl + P to open prefs and then click Tools ---> Effects and Filters which opens the Equalizer menu. After you make your selections click Save and restart vlc.

That was unchecked.
This is what it's doing:
double click the video file,
VLC opens with visualization
double click on it or right click gives nothing
press stop then play will play video
full screen gives visualization

Have you tried other skins? Which one are you using now?

WMP12, WMP11, and Default skin all do the same.
Maybe now one tried it in full screen when the skin mode was added ?
Do you have the same issue when you try the Default skin mode ?

In Show Settings > All
I disabled the visualization and the video is there is small screen and full screen,
but then you don't get any audio visualization when you have audio and video in your playlist (an the playlist you are not allowed to change the play order of in skin mode).
Look like it gets you at every turn

WMP12, WMP11, and Default skin all do the same.
Maybe now one tried it in full screen when the skin mode was added ?
Do you have the same issue when you try the Default skin mode ?

I don't see those in the list of skins on the videolan site: https://www.videolan.org/vlc/skins.html

I don't have any problems with the default UI. Maybe what you can try doing is to open prefs and click the big Reset Preferences button at the bottom which will restore default settings. Save, exit and restart vlc.

Reset don't work, if I play them in them in the non skin mode, with an audio song it will show the visualization in the main window but when it plays the video next in the playlist it is in the main window and the visualization now opens in another window.
If you try Windows Media Player C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Media Player\wmplayer.exe
load video and audio in the playlist, it will play the video and visualization for the audio both in the same window small or full screen, this is basically how all media players work.

I don't see those in the list of skins on the videolan site: https://www.videolan.org/vlc/skins.html

OK I can reproduce the problem now. It's not quite as bad as your experience and looks like this.


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To disable it click Audio on the top toolbar and then click Visualizations. On the submenu click Disable at the top.

The secondary window you're seeing will appear if you don't have "Docked Playlist" checkmarked in the View menu on the top toolbar. Click it to place the checkmark there and then exit and restart vlc.

By the way, apologies for not 'seeing' the other skins you mentioned. I must admit I only gave them all a cursory glance and didn't notice the ones you mentioned for some unknown reason.

by Hitchhiker » 08 Nov 2020 14:13
...To disable it click Audio on the top toolbar and then click Visualizations. On the submenu click Disable at the top....

by MusoCity » 07 Nov 2020 19:41
..I disabled the visualization and the video is there is small screen and full screen,...

"Docked Playlist" is already checked.
I want full/small screen visualization for audio files in the playlist and full/small screen for videos in the playlist.
That's why I said try windows media player with video and mp3, see how it works and if you can find a way to do that in VLC skin, please let me know.