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I am trying to use VLC as normal TV. VLC is set in fullscreen mode and I use remote controller to change channels. TV channels are coming from multicast and they are listed in the playlist, I use ATI Remote Wonder controller.

I found two problems to make this running smoothly:

1. When I change TV hannels, the process is not smooth but often for a moment one can see background with vlc window or windows. It is like that vlc is changing channels in fullscreen by opening a window first and then going to fullscreen. This is very annoying. What is interesting is that it does not happen always. Is it possible to eliminate this completely?

2. I would like to use channel calling by numbers. But in the play list there are numbers so I can only use channel up and down. Is there a way for assinging keyboard numbers to the channels in the playlist?

1. Isn't possible ATM because VLC always recreates video and audio output on new stream/file.

Could there be option at least to switch of the window decoration? I mean if the window is not needed because of full screen mode, why window decoration should be kept? Another way would be to bypass background and insert black screen instead.

Thus, I think fullscreen mode IS YET NOT WHAT IT SHOULD BE. It works well when switching the current channel from window to fullscreen, but not when channels are switched in fullscreen.

there is a --no-video-deco option, see http://wiki.videolan.org/VLC_command-line_help

there is a --no-video-deco option, see http://wiki.videolan.org/VLC_command-line_help

How this works, when I disable/enable it in settings nothing happens???

You can disable decoration from VLC itself. Settings -> Preferences and Interface -> Main Interface -> wxWidgets and disable embedded (and/or Video and disable Window decorations).