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Hi,

I would like to start vlc to play a video directly in full screen mode. I start vlc from command line (vlc -f rtsp://server/stream).
Right now what I get is first the window mode empty interface, then the video start to play and then switch to full screen.

Is there a way to get immediately full screen mode without first getting the window mode ? I guess that this is a must when building a set top box, so this should be a FAQ, but could not find any answer so far....

Thanks.
Christophe

I forgot to mention: I have similar results with cvlc:
- First start a small display, without decoration
- then switch to full screen with window decrations
- then switch to real fullscreen, without window decoration

That's a limitation.

As of today, vlc always launches a video in windowed mode and then only switches to fullscreen (even if --fullscreen is explicit right from the beginning).

For the time being, you can achieve what you want by creating a very basic skins made of a single Video tag with fullscreen size. This way, you trick vlc into using fullscreen for the windowed mode before really switching to fullscreen. Result is ok, though I agree it should be implemented in the first place.

Erwan10