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3 Windows Running At Once - What The Heck?

Posted: 06 Nov 2008 01:14
by DasFox
In 0.9.4 I have 3 windows running at once, when I click on a .wmv to watch:

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What's going on here? I have never seen something like this before... :shock:

Re: 3 Windows Running At Once - What The Heck?

Posted: 06 Nov 2008 11:09
by Jean-Baptiste Kempf
Your video has three video tracks enabled... Therefore, three are played.

Re: 3 Windows Running At Once - What The Heck?

Posted: 07 Nov 2008 01:50
by p91
Hi,
I do not think that this is the problem.
Normally this happens if the file itself is damaged or has some really strange codec.
I had some videos which opened about 20 windows with VLC but only one in Windows Media Plyer classic.

Re: 3 Windows Running At Once - What The Heck?

Posted: 07 Nov 2008 12:27
by DasFox
Ok, any simple program I can use to take out 2 of the tracks so only one video plays?

THANKS

Re: 3 Windows Running At Once - What The Heck?

Posted: 07 Nov 2008 18:14
by VLC_help
Broken files can also cause this. And other players don't have option to playback multiple video tracks at the same time, so they won't show the issue.

Windows Media Stream Editor should work for removing unneeded stuff (demux and create new file).

Re: 3 Windows Running At Once - What The Heck?

Posted: 27 Feb 2009 15:01
by DiMono
I'm experiencing the same thing on a number of wmv files I downloaded in an archive, and re-encoding them all is going to take a significant amount of time I don't want. Is there a setting to turn off multiple playback windows and only choose the one with the highest quality video?

Can there be?

Re: 3 Windows Running At Once - What The Heck?

Posted: 28 Feb 2009 15:18
by VLC_help
Windows Media Stream Editor. You don't have to encode anything, remuxing is enough. There is also feature request for VLC.
http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/2407