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Posted: **26 Sep 2014 19:12**

I have the following on startup:

"C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe"

--video-wallpaper "http://myserver.com/video.flv" --noaudio

It works perfectly however the video is in the top left of my desktop. Setting --fullscreen makes the screen black for a second before playing the video. I can see my desktop background in the rest of the desktop. I've googled and found no solution to this.

My screen resolution is 1366X768 and the video is 1280X720. I basically just need to stretch it. Oddly enough if I play the video in VLC like normal, then choose "set as wallpaper" from the video dropdown, it will stretch the video to cover the whole desktop.

So yeah, hopefully someone can help with this.

EDIT: Well the best I can do is turn off autoscaling and put Vidio Scaling at 2.0 until someone can do that --width=XXX thing which apparently used to work, so I'm guessing this is a bug.

Posted: **12 Oct 2014 09:09**

I have this same problem. My startup script launches it properly, VLC hidden away in the taskbar, but the wallpaper is not centered, its off to the left a little bit. If I turn off wallpaper then re-enable it from within VLC it centers properly. The background wallpaper can also be seen on the side. I am able to still use it by making my background black so it looks fine with my particular video use, but id still rather it centered.

I use this VBS script on startup (so that no command prompt window can be seen when executing):

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Set WshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell") 
WshShell.Run chr(34) & "C:\VLC WALLPAPER STARTUP FINAL.bat" & Chr(34), 0
Set WshShell = Nothing

with this BAT file:

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"C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe" --qt-system-tray --qt-start-minimized --no-audio --loop  "C:\Adjutant.avi"

The settings you suggested worked to center it upon launching my VBscript.

Before and after the settings change:

All I gotta do is keep my background image black to blend with the video. I have several other options changed, like turning off displaying the video title at start of playing a video, so that it doesn't show each time the loop restarts. I have Windows 8.1 with Winstep Nexus Dock and Rainmeter Enigma skin, with this youtube video of a Starcraft Adjutant ripped in AVI format: http://youtu.be/YEaY8One1zg

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