multiple monitor problems if monitor 2 is on the left side
Posted: 23 Feb 2010 01:28
I have a windows setup (on win 2000 and win xp using v1.0.5 - and earlier 1.0.x) where my extra monitor is to the left of the main monitor. In this case, the windows coordinates are negative in the x direction. The start button is on monitor one. It looks like this:
When I bring up vlc and move it to this second monitor, as above, and close, vlc remembers where it is and on the next double click type startup (i.e. double click a video that has been associated with vlc e.g. .mpg) there is often (but not always) a crash. It seems to always crash if the position of the window is at the left most side of the second monitor. If it is positioned in the center of monitor 2, it sometimes crashes and sometimes not. I think it has to do with the size or type of the video. If it does not crash, then vlc usually ends up (when made larger as the video starts) straddling across the 2 monitors.
The crash is reported as an access violation at location 0 (and the instruction location is also 0).
The workaround is to start vlc with no file, move it back to the main monitor, and then close it. But I have to do this after each viewing on the second monitor.
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+------------+ +-------------+
|[vlc] 2 | | 1 |
| | | |
| | | start |
+------------+ +-------------+
The crash is reported as an access violation at location 0 (and the instruction location is also 0).
The workaround is to start vlc with no file, move it back to the main monitor, and then close it. But I have to do this after each viewing on the second monitor.