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Hello,

First of all, i would like to thank you all for vlc and its plugins. I asked for vlc activex for IE last summer and it's already available. Great !

I would like to start vlc activex in a simple html page (as the one provided as an example) but with hidden video (invisible object).

To do that i set "ShowDisplay" parameter to "False" as follows :

<param name="ShowDisplay" value="False" />

But it does not work, the html page starts and i can see the video.

Do you have any idea how to make it work ?
By the way : i am aware we can achieve this working with DIVs and styles but it would be nice to manage it with activex object parameters.

Best regards,

Artur.[/b]

In fact it does not work either with hidden DIV (html layer). In this case vlc opens a popup window (called : VLC hardware YUV overlay DirectX output) to show the video when it starts.

In conclusion i was unable to start ActiveX with an open video stream without seeing the output...

thanks for the bug report, 'ShowDisplay' PARAM name has been fixed and should be available in the SVN repository

a workaround could be to set the width/height of the plugin to 0, then size it to full size through scripting whenever you want to display it