Remember window position/size after closing from a stream

[isamu]

Hi everyone. Quick question....

is there a way for VLC player to remember its window size and position when it closes from a live video stream? I often use it to watch live streams from twitchTV and youtube, but when the streamer ends the stream and VLC closes, it doesn't remember the size and position it had. Is there a way to fix this?

[kodela]

See here: http://addons.videolan.org/content/show ... ent=154600

[isamu]

See here: http://addons.videolan.org/content/show ... ent=154600

Doesn't work when VLC gets closed from a stream.

Anyway bump-0-rango!!!

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

See here: http://addons.videolan.org/content/show ... ent=154600

That's saving and restoring the playback position within the input's timeline, not the window position within the screen.

As far as I understand, restoring the position is the job of the window manager and/or the UI tookit, not VLC proper anyway.

[kodela]

That's saving and restoring the playback position within the input's timeline, not the window position within the screen.

Yes, Rémi is right. Since I have misunderstood something.

kodela

[isamu]

Isamu, did you try formatting your hard drive?

Yup, tried it, no luck

[Arite]

Go to:
Tools >> Preferences

And (assuming you are in the "Simple" settings mode), in the "Interface" tab untick "Resize interface to video size".

Then click "Save" and close and re-open VLC then it should stay the same size regardless of resolution/whether a video is playing etc.

Also cleaned up this topic by removing uneccessary bumps.

Arite.

[isamu]

Go to:
Tools >> Preferences

And (assuming you are in the "Simple" settings mode), in the "Interface" tab untick "Resize interface to video size".

Then click "Save" and close and re-open VLC then it should stay the same size regardless of resolution/whether a video is playing etc.

Also cleaned up this topic by removing uneccessary bumps.

Arite.

Again....it indeed works when you manually close the player yourself, but if the player gets closed by another application(ie Livestreamer), upon re-opening VLC it will revert back to the window position you last had when you *MANUALLY* closed it yourself. I want it to stay at the same position it was at when it was closed by livestreamer. That's the issue.

[Arite]

Presumably that's to do with Livestreamer killing the VLC process, so it doesn't close "gracefully" where it would write the current position etc. to a config file.

I had a look at the Livestreamer options, seems you can ask it not to the kill the player when a stream ends:
http://livestreamer.tanuki.se/en/latest ... r-no-close

So add:

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--player-no-close

To your Livestreamer command line.

Then you could tell VLC to play and exit by giving VLC the "--play-and-exit" command.

Wrapping that all together in a single command:

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livestreamer.exe http://www.twitch.tv/[CHANNEL] source --player-no-close --player "C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe --play-and-exit"

Where [CHANNEL] is the Twitch.tv channel you're watching. Note that command is for Windows with 32-bit VLC installed in the default location.

You could also set the player to be VLC with --play-and-exit in the Livestreamer config file too.

I haven't checked it with Livestreamer, however closing VLC with it's "--play-and-exit" does save the location/video size.

Cheers, Arite.

[isamu]

Presumably that's to do with Livestreamer killing the VLC process, so it doesn't close "gracefully" where it would write the current position etc. to a config file.

I had a look at the Livestreamer options, seems you can ask it not to the kill the player when a stream ends:
http://livestreamer.tanuki.se/en/latest ... r-no-close

So add:

Code: Select all

--player-no-close

To your Livestreamer command line.

Then you could tell VLC to play and exit by giving VLC the "--play-and-exit" command.

Wrapping that all together in a single command:

Code: Select all

livestreamer.exe http://www.twitch.tv/[CHANNEL] source --player-no-close --player "C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe --play-and-exit"

Where [CHANNEL] is the Twitch.tv channel you're watching. Note that command is for Windows with 32-bit VLC installed in the default location.

You could also set the player to be VLC with --play-and-exit in the Livestreamer config file too.

I haven't checked it with Livestreamer, however closing VLC with it's "--play-and-exit" does save the location/video size.

Cheers, Arite.

Thank you for the tips and explanation Arite. Much appreciated.